Monthly Archives: January 2010
Arrington and Stephen Barr Mix it Up
| January 7, 2010 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
At the First Things blog. more
Coffee!! Here are my latest Examiner stories:
| January 7, 2010 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
(I am an “intelligent design examiner” now. Don’t know how long that will last, due to possible incoming flocks of trolls. Just thought I’d cumulate my posts here. Apologies for any duplications. ) Intelligent design: What it is Top ten science news events in the intelligent design controversy Faked embryos are back – at PBS… more
I don’t get why Christian preachers need to shout out against intelligent design.
| January 6, 2010 | Posted by O'Leary under Christian Darwinism, Darwinism |
Can someone explain? A friend directs me to this example, but you needn’t doubt I’d find more. Who would want this individual managing their stock portfolio?: If you crunch the numbers in relation to your own birth (i.e. the probability that a particular sperm united with a particular egg multiplied by the probability that your… more
WWND? (What Would Nietzsche Do?)
| January 6, 2010 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
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In an earlier post I commented on Alasdair Cochrane’s efforts to jettison “inherent dignity” as a criterion for determining whether it is moral to treat certain classes of humans as objects. Cochrane is impatient with the “dignity criterion,” because it prevents actions that he deems beneficial, for example medical experiments on human guinea pigs that… more
$5000 Video Contest at GodorNot.com: “Why do you believe that God is good?”
| January 6, 2010 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
As part of the promotion for my book THE END OF CHRISTIANITY, the publisher has arranged a $5000 video contest in which participants upload an up-to-2-minute video explaining why they believe that God is good. The contest has just started and the deadline for submissions is April 5, 2010. The contest is operated by Memelabs,… more
GODORNOT.COM VIDEO CONTEST
| January 6, 2010 | Posted by Clive Hayden under Culture, Education, Religion |
B & H Publishing Group, publisher of Dr. Dembski’s excellent new theodicy The End of Christianity: Finding a Good God in an Evil World, is sponsoring a video contest at www.godornot.com. C. S. Lewis wrote in his journal, after the passing of his wife Joy Davidman Gresham from cancer, “Sooner or later I must face… more
Calling Dr. Mengele, Calling Dr. Mengele
| January 5, 2010 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
Alasdair Cochrane works at an organization called the Centre for the Study of Human Rights in the UK. The journal Bioethics has just published Cochrane’s article “Undignified Bioethics” (subscription required), in which he argues that the concept of inherent human dignity should be rejected. Cochrane correctly notes that treating all humans as though they possess… more
Joe Carter Takes on David B. Hart
| January 5, 2010 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
In UD Contest 19 Denyse asked readers to identify the several errors in a passage from David B. Hart’s blurb about the “problems with ID.” Over at First Things Joe Carter also goes after Hart (here). more
DEBATE: William Dembski vs. Lewis Wolpert at UNBELIEVABLE
| January 4, 2010 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
. Lewis Wolpert and I had an audio debate a few weeks ago, which is now available online as a podcast: go here (there’s about three minutes of stage-setting by the interviewer Justin Brierly before the actual discussion with Wolpert begins). The debate is part of a program series called UNBELIEVABLE. Other debates available there… more
Throwing down the gauntlet to Dr. Denis Alexander
| January 4, 2010 | Posted by David Anderson under Books of interest, Darwinism, Evolution, theistic evolution |
I had a chapter in the recently published (IVP UK) “Should Christians Embrace Evolution?”, a negative response to those – in particular Dr. Denis Alexander – who say that we must. Well, Dr. Alexander has now read that response. The question going forward is whether he wants to interact with it. My own personal opinion… more
Music, Evolutionary Cheesecake And The Designer Brain
| January 3, 2010 | Posted by Robert Deyes under Intelligent Design |
A Review Of Daniel Levitin’s This Is Your Brain On Music ISBN: 978-0-452-28852-2 Physicist Emerson Pugh once quipped, “if the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t” [1]. In his book This Is Your Brain On Music neuroscientist Daniel Levitin notes how the number… more
Uncommon Descent Contest 18 Ancient reptile brain explains human psychology? – winner announced
| January 3, 2010 | Posted by O'Leary under Animal minds, Darwinism |
Here’s the contest. The question arose from my longstanding puzzlement over claims that reptile behaviour could be sharply demarcated from bird or mammal behaviour, according to a tri-partite brain organization. The evidence did not seem to support that. For example, if we use a crude, obvious measure like looking after young, well, many crocodilians (including… more
The Altenberg 16 — coming to a bookstore near you February 9th
| January 2, 2010 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Book Description: This book takes a look at the rivalry in science today surrounding attempts to discover the elusive process of evolution. In one camp are the faithful followers of the long-standing theory of natural selection promulgated by Charles Darwin more than 150 years ago. This “survival of the fittest” theory, according to author Suzan… more
Uncommon Descent Contest Question 17: Why do evolutionary psychologists need to debunk compassion? Winner announced
| January 2, 2010 | Posted by O'Leary under Evolutionary psychology |
Here, we asked, as per the title, why do evolutionary psychologists need to debunk compassion? That’s always been a puzzle for me because … why indeed? Only if one is a slave to basically stupid ideas like “the selfish gene,” would debunking compassion, which is widely noted in my local society – and most working… more
A Question for Joe Felsenstein (and Everyone Else)
| January 2, 2010 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
Joe Felsenstein, and most other evolutionists, tell us that science must be restricted to law-like causes and explanations. In a word, they require the scientific method to be restricted to naturalism. While this methodological naturalism seems like a reasonable way to do science, it is an incomplete instruction. There remains the question of what to… more
Uncommon Descent Contest Question 16: Are materialist atheists smarter than other types of believers? – winner announced
| January 1, 2010 | Posted by O'Leary under Neuroscience |
The title question here riffed off a study that claimed to prove such a point. I must also have been thinking of the “Brights” movement of materialist atheists. The winner here is Barb at 2, who needs to provide me with a postal address at which she may receive a copy of The Spiritual Brain.… more
Happy New Year: Top ten Darwin and design stories I
| January 1, 2010 | Posted by O'Leary under Darwinism, Design inference |
From Dennis Wagner at Access Research Network: We just released our annual review of the top Darwin and Design science news stories for 2009: Here. Its fun to reflect back on all that has happened this year. We plan to release our top 10 ranking of these stories tomorrow with a press release. We are… more