Monthly Archives: February 2012
From The Best Schools: When Fishtown’s do-gooders just stopped doing good
| February 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, News |
When looking at a society’s strengths, sociologists … often discuss “social capital.” What they mean is, who would care if you were mugged? more
From The Best Schools: When Joe Money moved out of Fishtown
| February 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, News |
And, for all that Eddy griped, he was on shift at Joe’s Fishtown plant the day it closed. more
ID’s threat to science: “Dark Ages II begins to fall” on top of us?
| February 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, News |
For a brief moment there, we wondered if the new Dark Ages was beginning to fall, but … more
Gallup Poll of 676,000 shows the most religious Americans have highest well-being
| February 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Medicine, News, Religion |
“The statistically significant relationship between religiousness and wellbeing holds up after controlling for numerous demographic variables.” more
Richard Dawkins would now rather be called an agnostic than an atheist?
| February 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Darwinism, News |
But do most agnostics want Dawkins speaking for them? Look what he was saying three years ago …
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New ID-friendly book released in Germany
| February 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Intelligent Design, News |
Authors include Reinhard Junker, a prominent German ID-friendly biologist. more
He said it: Nobel Prize winner Wolfgang Pauli was a staunch critic of neo-Darwinism
| February 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, News |
” … they use the word ‘chance’ … in its application to very rare single events more or less synonymous with the old word ‘miracle’.” more
Planets not tethered to suns could ferry life around galaxy?
| February 26, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Origin Of Life |
Sunless planets were in search of a headline until this thesis came along. more
Do Materialists Believe Rape is Wrong?
| February 25, 2012 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
I have a question for our materialist friends. Let’s imagine a group of chimpanzees. Say one of the male chimps approaches one of the female chimps and makes chimp signals that he wants to have sexual relations with her, but for whatever reason she’s not interested and refuses. Is it morally wrong for the male… more
Could it work? Probabilities and Engineering Feasibility Studies
| February 25, 2012 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design |
Our engineering department often gets feasibility-study contracts. The client has an idea, but wants to know if he should pursue further investment and research into a proposed solution to an engineering problem. Our team goes to work. We use all our resources and experience to evaluate the suggested engineering solution. Our team recommends three possible… more
From The Best Schools: US prez hopeful Rick Santorum’s religious language
| February 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, language, Religion |
“Why, then, as an atheist, am I not offended?” more
“No credible scientific alternative” is the world’s biggest science stopper
| February 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Climate change, Culture, News, Science |
The fact that the vast majority of scientists are in no doubt about something means nothing in the long run. more
Memo from materialists: Science is over. Oh and, by the way, consciousness doesn’t matter
| February 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, Neuroscience |
“… an incremental adaptation based on earlier forms of intelligence that no one would regard as faintly omniscient.” more
From The The Best Schools: “What part of nothing don’t you understand, Dr. Krauss?”
| February 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
“Krauss doesn’t get it. He titles one of his chapters “Nothing is something.”” more
ID: Living Things Appear To Be Designed Because They Are Designed
| February 24, 2012 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
At its core ID affirms the truth of two statements and then makes a logical deduction: Statement 1. Designers often leave behind objectively discernible indicia of design in the things they design. Statement 2. Some aspects of living things exhibit these objectively discernible indicia of design. Logical conclusion. Therefore, the best explanation for the existence… more
Insights into a largely cryptic Cambrian radiation of crustaceans
| February 24, 2012 | Posted by David Tyler under Intelligent Design |
The abrupt appearance of Cambrian life forms in the Cambrian Period of Earth history continues to provide us with spectacular evidence of sophistication. New research on fossils recovered from petroleum exploration drill cores assigned to the Deadwood Formation of western Canada documents “a cryptic but significant diversity of Cambrian crustaceans”. Previously, palaeontologists have had hints… more
Jerry Coyne stomps on Darwin’s co-discoverer Wallace but doesn’t get away with it
| February 24, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News |
“I was invited to reply to some errors and dismissive comments made by Dr. Coyne. ” more
Some people would still Expel Ben Stein, it seems
| February 24, 2012 | Posted by News under Courts, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Laws, News |
The design folk will inherit science because the no-design folk are into multiverses now. Just as a boy inherits the business because his brother is in chronic crack rehab. more
Neutrinos faster than light? Or faster than their competitors in the Big Science cash grab?
| February 24, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Physics |
“The nagging feeling is that they may have already known about this error, but ignored it because of the increase in attention and funding it provided.” more
Q: LYO challenges: “give me a fact, real or hypothetical, any fact at all about the world which would falsify ID” A: If CSI were demonstrably to come from blind chance and necessity it would (but, with high empirical reliability, it does not . . . )
| February 24, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Complex Specified Information, Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, ID Foundations |
For some time now, LYO has been a fairly frequent critic in UD’s comment threads. Overnight, he has challenged EA: I challenge you to give me a fact, real or hypothetical, any fact at all about the world which would falsify ID. There were prompt short answers that immediately followed the just linked: UB: A… more