Monthly Archives: February 2010
Templeton’s Love Affair with Evolution
| February 24, 2010 | Posted by William Dembski under Evolution, Human evolution |
This just in from the Templeton Foundation. They’re convinced that all informed scientific criticism of evolutionary theory died long ago. Check out especially the following link: www.templeton.org/evolution. Does evolution explain human nature? Three distinguished scholars explored this Big Question during a recent discussion sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation, Yale University, and Discover magazine. The… more
Early Vision More Complicated
| February 24, 2010 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
As you read these words a frenzy of activity is taking place as the light entering your eye triggers a dizzying sequence of actions, ultimately causing a signal to be sent to your brain. In fact, even a mere single photon can be detected in your vision system. It all starts with a photon interacting… more
Independent Evolution of Eyes
| February 23, 2010 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
Evolution has to be true, and yet it is not well supported scientifically. If you ask how evolution occurred, you will be told there are various theories grappling with the problem. But if you ask if evolution occurred, you will be told that, without a doubt, it is an unequivocal fact. Evolutionists have metaphysical certainty… more
Upright Biped Explains Emergence
| February 22, 2010 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
In a comment to a prior post Tom quotes a Darwinist article regarding the source of information at the origin of life: “The idea is to give them enough information wherewithal [genetic building blocks] so they can start inventing their own solutions rather than just optimizing existing solutions,” To which Tom responds: The key word… more
Hopeful Monsters: An Endless List of Special Cases
| February 22, 2010 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
Textbook evolutionary theory holds that evolutionary change occurs gradually. It may speed up or slow down but change, when it occurs, takes small steps. But from the fossil record to observed adaptations in the field, biological data do not always cooperate with theory. In fact, populations do respond dramatically to environmental challenges in a time… more
Uncommon Descent Contest 20: Why should human evolution be taught in school? Winner announced
| February 21, 2010 | Posted by O'Leary under Uncommon Descent Contest |
Here’s the reason I asked why human evolution should be taught in school: I just came across this fact: Human evolution: Little is known other than basic outline Contrary to widely heard huffing, there are huge gaps in our understanding of early humans. In Nature’s 2020 Visions (7 January 2010) Scroll down to Leslie C.… more
Can life arise from basic molecules?
| February 21, 2010 | Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design |
“SAN DIEGO: Can life arise from nothing but a chaotic assortment of basic molecules? The answer is a lot closer following a series of ingenious experiments that have shown evolution at work in non-living molecules. For the first time, scientists have synthesized RNA enzymes – ribonucleic acid enzymes also known as ribozymes – that can… more
“Nanomachine” Evolved?
| February 20, 2010 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
Science Daily reports on new work examining cellular motors: Life’s smallest motor — a protein that shuttles cargo within cells and helps cells divide — does so by rocking up and down like a seesaw, according to research conducted by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Brandeis University. The… more
Coffee!! Which of these theories is not like the others?
| February 20, 2010 | Posted by O'Leary under Darwinism, Evolution |
Sure, those are all plausible causes of evolution, sometimes discussed.
But I have never heard anyone famously say, as Dawkins said about Darwinism, that they make it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
Things That Are Made
| February 19, 2010 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design |
I’ve evolved, and here’s my evolution: Richard Dawkins became Antony Flew who became C.S. Lewis. (Of course, I’m not in the same league as Flew or Lewis, and God forgive my Dawkins past.) Things that are made. I have a faint recollection of this phrase from some ancient text I once read. Things that are… more
Papa Makes a Humdinger
| February 19, 2010 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
My grandfather, about whom I have written before in these pages, was an extraordinary man. Born in 1910, he left school after the second grade to go to work shortly after the great flu pandemic of 1918. He was, however, a prodigious autodidact, and when he died his library ran into the thousands of volumes. … more
Laryngeal echolocation in bats
| February 19, 2010 | Posted by David Tyler under Intelligent Design |
Two years ago, “the most primitive bat known” was reported in Nature. It was not primitive in its wings and body, but “the morphology of the ear region suggests that it could not echolocate, making it a possible intermediate link between bats and their non-flying, non-echolocating mammalian ancestors”. At the time, the find was suggested… more
Design Operates at Multiple Levels
| February 19, 2010 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
In a comment to a prior post lastyearon writes: I’m simply not understanding how it is possible to detect that certain things were the result of design if everything is the result of design. If you hold that the laws of nature were Fine-Tuned for life, then that position seems incompatible with the notion that… more
Denying the Truth Does Not Make it Any Less True
| February 19, 2010 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
In a prior thread mikev6 asked: “If God is required to be moral, and I don’t believe in God, does that make me immoral?” I responded: “mikev6. Just because you are an atheist you will not necessarily act in an immoral way. No one said you would. It is a fact, however, that you are… more
Junk DNA Meets Evolvability
| February 19, 2010 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
Tandem repeats are short stretches of DNA that are repeated head-to-tail. “At first sight,” explains evolutionist Marcelo Vinces, “it may seem unlikely that this stutter-DNA has any biological function.” This is an example of how evolutionary thinking harms science. Since life is an accident, biology must be straightforward. If we do not immediately perceive how… more
Coffee!! Neo-Darwinians blamed for low birth rate
| February 18, 2010 | Posted by O'Leary under Darwinism |
Darwinism would not likely survive under natural circumstances, hence it must be compulsorily propagated through school systems. Hence all the school board court cases. more
Jerry Coyne: Why Embryology Proves Evolution
| February 18, 2010 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
It seems that evolutionists are forever repeating their refrain that evolution is both theory and fact. And for good reason—evolution is commonly misunderstood. On the one hand, evolution is a mechanistic explanation for the origin of species. That is the theory part of evolution and it is open to substantial revision. A wide variety of… more