Monthly Archives: September 2011
Epigenetics: Twin study sheds light on who will develop schizophrenia
| September 24, 2011 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design |
From “Twin Study Reveals Epigenetic Alterations of Psychiatric Disorders” (ScienceDaily, Sep. 23, 2011), we learn: Previous quantitative genetic analyses of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder reveal strong inherited components to both. However, although heritability for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder is estimated at 70%, disease concordance between twin-pairs is far from 100%, indicating that non-genetic factors play… more
Film on Darwin’s heretic Wallace now available
| September 24, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, News |
Wallace, Darwin’s co-discoverer, couldn’t teach at a university today Here. Wallace, co-discoverer of natural selection, saw hisdiscovery in the context of design. Of a socially humble background compared with Darwin, he was soon banished from the elite atheist circle, and consigned to the mockery of lesser men, then and since. Here’s the trailer for Darwin’s… more
Darwin lobby takes on climate change as well
| September 24, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Global Warming, News |
JonathanM, one of our authors (recent subject of Darwin TV), also notes that Darwin lobbyist Eugenie Scott (National Centr for Science Education) was speaking recently at a Glasgow Skeptics meeting in Glasgow that he attended: The topic of the lecture (which you can watch for yourself) was “Evolution and Global Warming Denial: How the Public… more
YouTube Darwinist responds to JonathanM post at ENV
| September 24, 2011 | Posted by News under Irreducible Complexity, News |
JonathanM is preparing a response; we don’t know if it will be a YouTube. more
“Paranoia” hits British Darwinists (well, these days, that’s pretty much what they’ve got, intellectually)
| September 23, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, science education |
In “British Humanists campaign to restrict academic freedom”( Access Research Network, September 23, 2011), British physicist David Tyler explains, This week has seen the launch of a new website, with the title: “Teach evolution, not creationism!” registered by the British Humanist Association. The issue relates to education and the way the subject of origins is… more
Why the Texas textbook market matters, even if you don’t live anywhere near there
| September 23, 2011 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News, science education |
Here, we’ve given a fair amount of space to Texas textbook hearings, and it’s only fair to say why. Godfather Politics recalls (September 21, 2011) Texas distributes 48 million textbooks every year. This is a huge market if you are a textbook publisher. While California is the nation’s largest textbook market, the state’s financial crisis… more
Science and Freethinking
| September 23, 2011 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design |
Everyone has a religion, a raison d’être, and mine was once Dawkins’. I had the same disdain for people of faith that he does, only I could have put him to shame with the power and passion of my argumentation. But something happened. As a result of my equally passionate love of science, logic, and… more
Coming to terms with Norway’s accused mass murder, and others
| September 23, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intellectual freedom, News |
Scott gains credibility with us right away when he points to historical events instead of evoking some flapdoodle about human evolution. He could be wrong, but at least it’s discussable. more
NCSE’s Eugenie Scott Reassures Scotland: There’s No Scientific Controversy on Evolution or Climate Change
| September 23, 2011 | Posted by Jonathan M under Intelligent Design |
Last week in Glasgow, Scotland, Centre for Intelligent Design (C4ID) director Alastair Noble, David Swift, and I attended a lecture presented by Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education. The event was organized by Glasgow Skeptics, who previously hosted a talk by PZ Myers back in June. Click here to continue reading>>> more
Forget the old tree of life. Here’s a new, improved tree for mammals, incorporating bursts
| September 23, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
Almost as if it were spring-loaded. more
Yes, the long slow process of human evolution produced teenagerhood too … in only 50 years
| September 23, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, News |
Actually, it was largely a post-World War II phenomenon, driven by vast new entertainment and advertising industries. Which is pretty fast for evolution, no? more
On settled science, and the need for scientists to unsettle it
| September 23, 2011 | Posted by News under Global Warming, News, Philosophy, Science |
Understanding the difference between evolutionary biology and Darwinism more
New journal tackles “Grand challenges in bioinformatics and computational biology”
| September 23, 2011 | Posted by News under Genomics, News |
Which could upend truisms en masse. more
Cosmology: You mean the universe maybe isn’t expanding?
| September 23, 2011 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
What about the prophet Krauss? Wasn’t it bad enough he lost a debate to William Lane Craig? more
What if it’s not true that religion does bad things to your brain?
| September 22, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Religion |
Do we hafta call the paramedic, or are you used to this already? more
Gran Sasso lab threatens to upend a century of Einstein physics?
| September 22, 2011 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Physics |
” reached a level of statistical significance that in scientific circles would count as a formal discovery.” more
BREAKING: Possible Neutrinos moving at superluminal speeds at CERN!
| September 22, 2011 | Posted by kairosfocus under News, Physics, Science, science education |
When I was a kid and was bored in Chem classes I would occasionally daydream of a messenger arriving at the classroom door to tell the late, great, Fr Farrell of a scientific breakthrough. Of course, in later years, I always assumed that it would be years before a breakthrough would filter down to High… more
John Polkinghorne on the evidence for the Mind behind the universe
| September 22, 2011 | Posted by News under News, Religion, Science |
Any program called “Bridging the Divide Between Science and Religion” (like this one) attracts this problem in spades: The divide is not between science and religion but between nonsense and religion. more
Making “Darwin himself chuckle”
| September 22, 2011 | Posted by News under Canada, Culture, Darwinism, News |
Oddly, most Canadian kids don’t grow up to believe Darwinism, but rather to recognize that Darwinism is part of the belief system that the elite enforce. That is a different matter, and it is the usual fate of enforced beliefs: more
Darwin’s evolution is as sure as the law of gravity!
| September 22, 2011 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Humor |
And how sure is that? more