Monthly Archives: February 2010
Granville Sewell at IDthefuture
| February 17, 2010 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Mathematician Granville Sewell on Common Design On this episode of Dr. Sewell’s new book, In the Beginning: And Other Essays on Intelligent Design, is published by Discovery Institute Press. Click here to listen.ID the Future, pro-ID mathematician Granville Sewell explains his views on common design and how the second law of thermodynamics challenges materialism. Listen… more
Naturalism’s Moral Foundations
| February 17, 2010 | Posted by William Dembski under Culture, Ethics, Intelligent Design, Religion |
Jeffrey Dahmer: “If it all happens naturalistically, what’s the need for a God? Can’t I set my own rules? Who owns me? I own myself.” [Biography, "Jeffrey Dahmer: The Monster Within," A&E, 1996.] Naturalists like to stress that you don’t need God or religion to be good. Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins even suggest that leaving God… more
PNAS: Free Will Into the Dumpster
| February 17, 2010 | Posted by Paul Nelson under Intelligent Design |
The article is open access, so you can choose to download it. Or choose not to download it. Or choose to click over to YouTube, or the Huffington Post, to see what’s doing there. Whatever happens, “you” — meaning the person reading this right now — won’t be making a decision. Physics and chemistry will.… more
Behe’s Latest
| February 17, 2010 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
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Dr. Behe’s “Misusing Protistan Examples to Propagage Mythes about Intelligent Design” is up at his UD blog. more
Junk Protein Not so Worthless After All
| February 17, 2010 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
One problem with evolution is its strong bias toward viewing everything in biology as a kludge. When a newly discovered structure is examined, evolutionists take one look and conclude it is leftover junk. After all, blind, unguided mutations and other processes just happened to produce everything we see. The evolutionist’s going in position is that… more
The Quantum Enigma of Consciousness and the Identity of the Designer
| February 17, 2010 | Posted by scordova under Creationism, Intelligent Design, Physics |
In this thread, I will suggest the identity of Intelligent Designer of life. The question of the identity of the Intelligent Designer is outside of ID proper, but if a design is detected, it inspires the question, “who is the Designer?” If the identity of the Intelligent Designer is outside of ID proper, is it… more
Michael Ruse vs. Jerry Fodor
| February 16, 2010 | Posted by William Dembski under Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Science |
Michael Ruse is not happy with Jerry Fodor’s new book (described here at UD). As Ruse begins his review in the Boston Globe: “What Darwin Got Wrong is an intensely irritating book….” . Here is the conclusion of Ruse’s review: The Darwinian does not want to say that the world is designed. That is what… more
Global Warming Honcho Finally Fesses Up
| February 16, 2010 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
The disgraced former head of a U.N. backed climate research center admits 1. No global warming in the last 15 years. 2. It might have been warmer in medieval times than now. more
Coffee! Clergy Letter Project: Return to Sender, please
| February 16, 2010 | Posted by O'Leary under Christian Darwinism |
I see where Evolution Weekend, brainchild of the Clergy Letter Project, has come and gone again: Evolution Weekend is an opportunity for serious discussion and reflection on the relationship between religion and science. One important goal is to elevate the quality of the discussion on this critical topic – to move beyond sound bites. A… more
Integrons: Evolution Creates Itself
| February 16, 2010 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
The evolutionary expectation was that species adapt by unguided variation. Sometimes, it was thought, this blind process happens to stumble upon an improved design which has a reproductive advantage, and so becomes more prevalent in future generations. This evolutionary model could hardly be more wrong. We now have glimpsed the profound complexity of biology adaptation… more
A Response to Stephen Barr
| February 15, 2010 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
My grandfather was a prolific arrowhead collector. He spent countless hours walking back and forth over the plains, hills and creek bottoms of Texas looking for “points,” as he called them, and by the time he passed away his collection ran into the hundreds. When I was a young boy in the 60’s papa sometimes… more
ESEB: Little Shop of Fallacies
| February 15, 2010 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
Ever tire of chasing down all those evolutionary fallacies? Dustin Penn and co workers have solved the problem by collecting them in one place: at the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) website. Their goal is to improve public education and understanding of evolution. If that means revealing the various strawmen, mischaracterizations, twisting of science,… more
Review Of Signature In The Cell In Spanish
| February 15, 2010 | Posted by Robert Deyes under Intelligent Design |
2010 sees the beginning of a new series in Spanish exploring key findings from contemporary science that support the intelligent design inference. The series Paseos Por La Naturaleza (A Walk Through Nature) aims to further strengthen the global influence that the Intelligent Design movement already enjoys and raise awareness of important academic resources that are… more
In the Beginning and Other Essays on Intelligent Design
| February 14, 2010 | Posted by Granville Sewell under Intelligent Design |
Discovery now has a web site for my new book, here . I have posted a summary of the contents of each chapter here . Some of the essays have been previously published, for example, chapter 6, “My Failed Simulation,” was a 2008 on-line Human Events article, and chapter 7, now retitled “How Evolution Will… more
Will Evolution Weekend Sermons Discuss Alleged Murderer Amy Bishop?
| February 14, 2010 | Posted by scordova under Culture, Darwinism, Religion |
Today is the closing day of “Evolution Weekend”. The weekend is promoted by The clergy letter project. This is a weekend dedicated to glorifying Darwinism in churches. Curiously one of the scientists on call to help clergy and parishioners promote the glories of Darwinism was Amy Bishop, she is listed here: Name: Amy Bishop, Ph.D.… more
Toppling The Stanchions Of Biological Determinacy
| February 13, 2010 | Posted by Robert Deyes under Intelligent Design |
Synopsis Of Chapter Eleven, Signature In The Cell, by Stephen Meyer ISBN: 9780061894206; ISBN10: 0061894206; Imprint: HarperOne Biological determinists will argue on the assumption that universal laws undergird the origin of life. Such an appeal to natural law is of course not a novel one. Indeed even thousands of years ago Aristotle philosophized over the… more
Dinosaurs from birds?
| February 13, 2010 | Posted by DLH under Biology, Cambrian explosion, Darwinism, Evolutionary biology, extinction, Natural selection |
How well neoDarwinian evolution is established and the universal “consensus” over it is demonstrated by: Bird-from-Dinosaur Theory of Evolution Challenged: Was It the Other Way Around? ScienceDaily (Feb. 10, 2010) — A new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides yet more evidence that birds did not descend from… more
Can SETI’s algorithm detect intelligence?
| February 13, 2010 | Posted by DLH under Comp. Sci. / Eng., Cosmology, Design inference, Extraterrestrial life, Informatics, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, Physics, Science |
TED granted Jill Tartar her wish to: “empower Earthlings everywhere to become active participants in the ultimate search for cosmic company”. TED and Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has set up SETIQuest.org to: . . . make vast amounts of SETI data available to the public for the first time. It will also publish… more
Not Just Intelligently Designed, Intelligently Engineered
| February 13, 2010 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design |
Those of us who are ID proponents often hear the following from ID deniers (hey, if it’s good for the goose, it’s good for the gander): “You mindless, science-destroying, knuckle-dragging, religiously fanatical ID clowns keep talking about complexity. What’s the big deal about complexity? Complex stuff happens all the time by chance and necessity. Get… more
Who Performed the Surgery?
| February 12, 2010 | Posted by Paul Nelson under Intelligent Design |
Stephen Barr misunderstands the place of natural laws and regularities in design inferences. Barr writes: …whereas the advance of science continually strengthens the broader and more traditional version of the design argument, the ID movement’s version is hostage to every advance in biological science. Science must fail for ID to succeed. In the famous “explanatory… more