Monthly Archives: June 2012
The Darwinism that the Darwin lobby would sue to PREVENT children from learning in tax-funded schools
| June 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News |
No surprise, it’s the real history of Darwinism applied to public and international affairs. more
This Paper Will Be Cited As Showing How Those Complex Ion Channels Evolved
| June 28, 2012 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
If you thought that Harold Zakon’sblunder in the very first sentence of his new PNAS paper, on the evolution of voltage-gated sodium channels, was merely the obligatory secret handshake and that thereafter Zakon would get down to business with some real science, well, think again. After his rather shaky start you’ll find that the second sentence is… more
Nature (journal): “Tearing apart” the traditional animal family tree
| June 28, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Tree of life |
When this stuff is appearing in Nature on as regular basis, you know things are changing. more
Remember serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer? Darwinism played a role in his crimes too
| June 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, News |
Add this one to the files about the Darwin-driven Columbine shooter and Finnish school shooter. And Norwegian mass murder Anders Breivik, who tumbled a generous dollop of Darwin in with the Norse gods … more
Why, exactly, has Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) got good press for fifty years?
| June 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, News |
SETI is an essentially religious enterprise that doesn’t recognize itself as such. If it did, it would have to ask harder questions. more
Science and Religion at the Portsmouth Institute
| June 27, 2012 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design, Religion, Science, theistic evolution |
Some months back I was invited to speak at this summer’s Portsmouth Institute, which took place last weekend (June 22-24). The title of this summer’s symposium was “Modern Science/Ancient Faith.” See here for the schedule of talks. The speakers included Michael Ruse of Florida State University (keynote), Kenneth Miller of Brown University, John Haught of… more
Is a pattern in the cosmic microwave background really evidence of a past universe?
| June 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Intelligent Design, News |
“One of the main problems is that Gurzadyan & Penrose don’t do their probability calculations right. ” more
Higgs boson (“God particle”) really exists?
| June 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
The physics commenters are much less certain, as you will see, so the formal announcement should be interesting. more
Why does epigenetics matter? Why is it bad news for Darwin?
| June 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Epigenetics, News |
Roundworms may provide a clue. more
Convergent evolution: Separate development of the genetic patterns of intelligence?
| June 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Animal minds, Intelligent Design, News |
Note once again the significance of convergent evolution – not evolving toward but converging on – the same solution, despite no close “common descent” relationship. more
The paradigmatic power of sexual selection
| June 27, 2012 | Posted by David Tyler under Intelligent Design |
Nearly a decade ago, Darwin’s thinking on sexual selection was considered by numerous scientists to be overdue for revision. At the 169th annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, researchers took “dead aim at one of Charles Darwin’s pet evolutionary theories – the theory of sexual selection, which says that males… more
An Evolutionist Just Made An Incredible Blunder In a Sodium Channel Evolution Paper As Evolutionists Continue To Drink Their Own Bathwater
| June 27, 2012 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
You won’t believe Harold Zakon’s fallacy in the very first sentence of his new PNAS paper on sodium channel evolution. The University of Texas evolutionist writes: Read more more
If math matters to science, we wouldn’t know it from scientists’ behaviour
| June 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Mathematics, News |
“The most maths-heavy articles are referenced 50 per cent less often than those with little or no maths.” more
Ancient flatfish shows only partially migrated eyes
| June 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
The fossil’s a great catch, but it’s unclear how it solves the “mystery.” more
Darwin’s in the schools, and Satan’s back in Kansas
| June 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, science education |
Warning: This story contains high doses of Westboro Baptist Church more
No True Scotsman!! Loch Ness monster to feature in Louisiana private school science textbook?
| June 26, 2012 | Posted by News under News, science education |
Hot potato: Schools teaching that the Nessie hoax is a fact (and relevant to evolution) may get public funds (vouchers). more
Here’s What Alex “Philo” Filippenko Really Said Last Weekend at SETICon 2
| June 26, 2012 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
Last weekend evolutionists fired off another round of metaphysics and as usual there was no counter attack. From their hilltop position evolutionists are free to throw down their religious mandates with impunity while the low-landers do nothing but run for cover. This time it was astrophysicist Alex “Philo” Filippenko lighting off the Infinite Regress howitzer… more
Did Paley discuss a self-replicating, time-keeping watch? What is the significance of that?
| June 26, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Intelligent Design |
If we believe the folks over at Anti-Evo, no: Quote [KF} And it is telling that somehow Paley’s time-keeping, self replicating watch seldom if ever gets seriously discussed by those who object to his key point. [OBJECTOR} No [mocking, "outing" dimunitive], that’s the point. Watches don’t replicate… Evidently, the objector did not pause to do… more
Audio: Hugh Ross vs. Lewis Wolpert on evidence for a cosmic designer
| June 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News, Religion |
Wolpert could be at a disadvantage if, as a developmental biologist, he is learning the issues from the crackpot cosmologies featured in pop science mags. more
Sexual selection upended: The fatal flaw in Bateman’s 1948 study
| June 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
“In repeating Bateman’s experiment, she and her colleagues found that the flies with two severe mutations are less likely to survive into adulthood.” more