Category: Climate change

Why sane environmentalism needs intelligent design theory

Well, for one thing, Chicken Little has had to retire. He just can’t compete. And he was more fun. more

It’s not just the design theorists.

In an uncertain age, anyone who suggests that consensus beliefs could be improved on can find themselves looking for work. more

Peer review: Putting politics before science on ultimate PC issue, climate change…

… and then wondering why people don’t take the science seriously. more

ID-friendly Telic Thoughts blog takes sardonic view of Darwin’s man Nick Matzke’s Nature paper

It’s curious that atheists don’t actually come up with new cultural themes. They recast venerable tent revivals with new stars, new props. more

Doubting pop science journalism doesn’t mean you don’t know your science

Science journalists should forego assuming that people who doubt are simply not science literate. more

Climate scientists should ramp up the rhetoric to sway public opinion – science writer

Something is missing from this picture. Going bad didn’t make the science stars good; it just didn’t stop them from winning. more

Latest environmental mandate: Engineer teeny weeny humans to leave smaller footprints

“That’s the message of a recent Atlantic article … on a proposal — to be published soon in an environmental ethics journal” more

From The Best Schools: Mad Scientists Then and Now

“People are too big. If we want to save the planet, we must shrink ourselves.” more

Powerful refutation of Darwin’s theory of evolution falls through the cracks?

This study … convincingly correlates the development of life on Earth with the explosion of nearby stars over the past 510 million years. more

In the news: James “Gaia theory” Lovelock backs off on climate change alarmism

“he and many others, including former U.S. vice-president Al Gore, were ‘extrapolating too far’ from computer models.” more

Scientific American on Tennessee teacher protection law: Hollywood’s climate change script at risk

Worst case scenario?: Some smart alec student might ask why celebs jet around the globe, asking poor folk to use less fuel. more

Could climate change replace Darwinism as The Big Explanation?

“Ultimately, this model explains why Homo sapiens as a species are here and the archaic humans are not.” more

“No credible scientific alternative” is the world’s biggest science stopper

The fact that the vast majority of scientists are in no doubt about something means nothing in the long run. more

Sigh. “Fake but accurate”: The Darwin lobby gets enmeshed in the latest climate change scandal

Doesn’t this “fake but accurate” schtick focus attention on the exact reason people doubt Darwinism?: It sounds plausible to many but isn’t true. more

Researchers scared to death of the anti-science lobby?

And if researchers are scared to death, it is us working stiffs they are scared of, really. more

Why does the climate change lobby want the Darwin lobby on board?

NCSE’s pass into publicly funded schools, due to court decisions, is valuable – isn’t that the product their new, well-heeled “climate change” funders are really buying? more

Darwinism and climate change: Go on then, make a PREDICTION!

If such studies don’t enable us to predict anything, why are they important for understanding the outcomes of anthropogenic climate change? more

Has the American Scientific Affiliation Forgotten Their Stated Identity?

Our vision is to promote good science, based on impartial evaluation of evidence, not mere consensus. more

Paul Greenberg offers some reflections on how a science community copes with discordant data … or doesn’t

“Men, it has been said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.” more

Climate change controversy: It takes a long time to turn a great ship around, but eventually …

The principal elite belief, throughout human history, is “There are too many rabble and they’re ruining everything.” Elites are always generous about what constitutes evidence in favour of that view. more

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