Monthly Archives: January 2012
What the Darwinist understands by beauty
| January 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, News |
In a cartoon more
Teaching evolution as an act of faith in Darwinism: Why that ol’ “gut feeling” matters so much
| January 29, 2012 | Posted by O'Leary under Darwinism, Education, Intelligent Design, News |
Essentially, as forced on students in school, “evolution” has about the same teaching value as hip hop, Star Trek,, self-esteem courses, The Lord of the Rings, or teen vampire films. The thing either grabs your gut or it doesn’t. more
New atheist standard-bearer: Why it’s okay to be rude to religious people ….
| January 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, News |
Maybe Dennett is assuming his readers are too sophisticated to know any reason to doubt him. more
Blind Mole is iridescent, just because the design worked out that way
| January 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, News |
The theory has been that iridescent colours should attract a mate, but … more
Where materialism fails: Grappling with the power of exceptional minds
| January 28, 2012 | Posted by News under language, News |
The reviewer doesn’t convey a sense that the author grapples with the origin of the mental capacity for learning many languages, beyond identifying prompts whose value depends on an undiscovered country. more
Is intelligence inherited? Does the race really go to the swift?
| January 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Education, News |
One troubling aspect of Charles Murray’s thesis is that he believes that intelligence is, generally, inherited. more
Education Reform: It’s the Culture, Stupid!
| January 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Education, News |
“The education-reform debate in this country has a surreal quality to it.” more
Creationism to be taught in Indiana science classes?
| January 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, News, science education |
What a pity they didn’t mention “self-organization theory”! Then we could get James Shapiro up on the stand in the subsequent court case, to find out just how, exactly, it works. more
The creation of the dumb dinosaur – a work of contemporary journalism?
| January 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Media, News |
The journalist imbibes, with his draft of lager, a Darwinist worldview in which there is some kind of “ascent” over time of nesting creatures, from less care to more care? Is there? more
Shermer vs. Flannery debate: Shermer actually conceded that Wallace, Darwin’s co-theorist, was a design pioneer
| January 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News |
When Darwin’s lobby needed to denigrate Wallace, in order to support Darwin, they made his ID-type commitments explicit. Now, with ID’s greater cultural confidence, they need to confuse and efface them. more
Bill Dembski: Trouble happens when they find out you mean business
| January 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Christian Darwinism, Culture |
For many Christian academics, the worst news possible is that the atheists they are discreetly selling out to don’t have the goods anyway. more
Church-Burning Video Used to Promote Atheist Event
| January 27, 2012 | Posted by GilDodgen under Atheism |
Here’s another delightful offering from the compassionate, tolerant, inclusive, diversity-promoting atheist community. As usual, it includes a plug for “evolution.” …the lineup includes atheist speakers, a rapper who raps about evolution and a “kiddy pool” where boys and girls will be able to scientifically walk on water. There will also be a number of bands… more
A Little Humour For Your Friday…
| January 27, 2012 | Posted by Jonathan M under Intelligent Design |
Put Jerry Coyne through the bunk detector
| January 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Mind, News |
“Beware of those who make grandiose claims. Check the AITSE bunk detecting principles. ” more
Darwinist: Evolution and no evolution are the same thing, it turns out
| January 27, 2012 | Posted by News under News, stasis |
Horseshoe crabs have survived 450 years, three global extinctions, with no evidence of evolution. Watch them repel Darwin’s spin doctor. more
Did ID-friendly Rick Santorum win the Florida US prez hopeful debate?
| January 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, News |
” … he definitely made a very serious case that he might be the best Not Romney in the race.” more
A multiverse of multiverses: If everything can be true, nothing is
| January 27, 2012 | Posted by O'Leary under Multiverse |
In a real world, some series can be infinite regresses, but others are not. more
What our moral and intellectual superiors want for us #3223: Using religion to create “nice neighbours”
| January 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Philosophy |
Can’t society get to where De Botton wants it to go without plundering religion? He argues not: … Religions, he thinks, have the buttons and know how to use them. more
The Splendors of the Multiverse
| January 27, 2012 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
In a comment to this post dmullenix writes: “What happened before the Big Bang? The multiverse already existed, it just hadn’t created this particular universe yet. What about space and time? No problem, they’re a part of the universe and came into existence when it did. . . we know that this universe came into… more
How dare you appeal to . . . conscious agents in science!
| January 27, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under ID Foundations, Intelligent Design, Mind, Philosophy, Science, worldview issues and society |
Sometimes, comments at UD can be quite revealing. Jan 25, AIG objected in the Shermer/Flannery Wallace debate thread in an inadvertently revealing way, which I have picked up: ___________ >>AIG: Re: questions of how, why, and “who” (the names of people involved [at Stonehenge etc]?) are secondary. We know that human beings were present at… more