Monthly Archives: March 2012
It turns out that Occam’s Razor wasn’t really Occam’s razor …
| March 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, science education |
“The odd nature of this attribution is accentuated when one considers that Ockham … thinks that God continually works miracles to make the world look like it is).” more
David Coppedge trial: Coppedge was never informed that he was being investigated
| March 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Intellectual freedom, News |
And after you read this, you will never ever try selling chocolate almonds for charity at work again. more
Human evolution: Why can everyone learn Portuguese?
| March 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, language, News |
“It’s perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific.” more
At Wheaton (Christian U), an interesting contest is shaping up: ID vs. Christian Darwinism
| March 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design |
Philosopher of science Alvin Plantinga is cast as the voice of reason, justly we hope. more
Dave Coppedge trial: Today’s Darwinism suits a world run by bureaucrats
| March 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Intellectual freedom, News |
He kept his mouth shut about ID? But that makes no difference once they knew he wasn’t just a stooge. more
Don Johnson’s new Programming of Life vid
| March 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Irreducible Complexity, News |
An exploration of microbiology, information science, and the origin of life. more
Oxford mathematician John Lennox on fine tuning in the universe
| March 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Fine tuning, News |
“We should note that the preceding arguments are not ‘God of the gaps’ arguments; it is advance in science, not ignorance of science, that has revealed this fine-tuning to us.” more
Here Are Those Two Protein Evolution Falsifications That Have Evolutionists Rewriting Their Script
| March 28, 2012 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
About twenty years ago the television show Dallas was in trouble. The writers had eliminated a popular character named Bobby and the show was losing popularity. The writers realized their mistake and began thinking up ways to solve the problem. They finally decided that the previous year of programming would become nothing more than a dream in… more
New theory of evolution: Evolving dependence on others
| March 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
Well sure, living at the expense of others can certainly work, but let’s not confuse it with innovation. more
Roger Scruton: “first major outbreak of a new academic disease, which one might call ‘neuroenvy’.”
| March 28, 2012 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design, Neuroscience, News |
“It seems to me that aesthetics, criticism, musicology and law are real disciplines, but not sciences. ” more
Reason Rally featured an under-reported low turnout?
| March 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, News |
“The pre-rally publicity was too ridiculous to believe. ” more
If Odd Arrangements and Funny Solutions are the Proof of Evolution, Then What About These Optimized Designs?
| March 28, 2012 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
You’ve heard all those evolutionary arguments about how nature’s sloppy, repetitive, inefficient and downright evil designs prove evolution. Then what about the many optimized designs in biology, such as those in this New York Times article, suggested by a friend, such as our eye’s ability to detect even a single photon:  Read more more
From The Best Schools: All Dawkins’s Straw Men
| March 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, News |
Dawkins has nothing to say to his growing numbers of competent professional critics. more
Jerry Coyne as a “tailless catarrhine primate” (self-description); John Hawks as the adult
| March 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
A more basic point is, we are having this discussion, and apes are not. more
Here’s the Real Message Behind This Week’s Sunday Book Review
| March 27, 2012 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
Tired of the New Atheists, and the old atheists as well? Delighted to see the likes of Philip Kitcher taking them down in this week’s Sunday Book Review? Philosophers Kitcher and David Albert reviewed books by atheists Alex Rosenberg and Lawrence Krauss in an exercise that was more like shooting fish in a barrel than any… more
In the days when Mars had life, the 1970s …
| March 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
Lichens, maybe? more
Yet Another Embarrassing Finding for the Global Warming Crowd
| March 27, 2012 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
It turns out the earth heats up and cools naturally with no human intervention. Who ever thought that it didn’t? Oh, the consensus. more
But one person would have known everything …
| March 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design |
“In June 1858 a slender package from Ternate, an island off the Dutch East Indies, arrived for Charles Darwin at his country home in Down, Kent.” more
Why math matters. Also, can we get a word in for common sense?
| March 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Mathematics, News |
“Mathematics is the language spoken by the professionals. The amateurs offer an alternative set of visions.” more
A new WAC: On those ever so revealing chalkboards (of the quantum physicists) and the law of non-contradiction, LNC
| March 27, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Intelligent Design |
Below, is a picture of Einstein’s chalkboard at Princeton as he left it — and you should see his bookshelves and desk, too! What does this have to do with the now so commonly dismissed laws of thought, especially the law of non-contradiction? A lot. AKA, one cannot wisely saw off the branch on which… more