Category: Darwinism
Newly on line: Darwinism as a root of make-it-up-as-you-go ethics
| May 20, 2013 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism |
The intriguing part is that so many people who think this an entirely laudable trend in ethics are nonetheless angry and disbelieving when a scholar like Weikart explains the role Darwin played in it. more
Peer Reviewed Paper: Neo-Darwinism falsified
| May 19, 2013 | Posted by scordova under Darwinism, Evolutionary biology, Humor |
HT: Nullasullus Evolutionary theory itself is already in a state of flux… all the central assumptions of the Modern Synthesis (often also called Neo-Darwinism) have been disproven Denis Noble Physiology is rocking the foundations of evolutionary biology Nice to hear the truth for a change. The paper drew on the work of James Shapiro (who… more
Reviewer: Non-materialist atheist philosopher’s book “flawed but valuable”
| May 19, 2013 | Posted by News under Atheism, Darwinism, Mind |
These days, only a person who just does not care what some government’s tagged herd is currently fed can afford to really genuinely doubt Darwin or any key materialist hero. more
Taxonomic nested hierarchies don’t support Darwinism — transformed cladism rocks
| May 14, 2013 | Posted by scordova under Darwinism |
Taxonomic nested hierarchies don’t support Darwinism or common descent, actually the opposite. Michael Denton convincingly argued that nested hierarchies can be used to argue against macro evolution. If the fish are always fish, then they will never be birds, reptiles, apes, or humans. From a forgotten book called Catholics and the Theory of Evolution, there… more
Martin Cadra’s Non-Dawinian Views on Evolution Blog
| May 11, 2013 | Posted by scordova under Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary biology |
Martin Cadra has a wonderful blog focusing on non-Darwinian views on evolution. He recently highlighted some rare publications by field biologists who provide empirical evidence that challenges the idea that Darwinian evolution is the source of butterfly mimicry. Here is an excerpt: Since Darwin’s time mimicry is presented as one of the best example of… more
Theology According to P.Z. Myers
| May 9, 2013 | Posted by DonaldM under 'Junk DNA', Biology, Convergent evolution, Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science |
Over on The Panda’s Thumb blog, Darwinian apologist P.Z. Myers recently posted a pejorative laden critique of a review article by Casey Luskin. Luskin was responding to a recent New York Times article on a study purporting to show how certain genes in fish might hold an important clue on how fins turned to feet.… more
The “ID is Creationism in a cheap tuxedo” smear championed by Eugenie Scott et al of NCSE is now Law School Textbook orthodoxy . . .
From ENV — even as Dr Eugenie Scott of NCSE retires (having championed the ID is Creationism in a cheap tuxedo smear for years and years in the teeth of all correction . . . ) — we see a development, courtesy a whistle-blowing Law School student: The latest attempt to insert creationism into the… more
Slate.com in a Dither Over non-Repeal of LSEA
| May 7, 2013 | Posted by DonaldM under academic freedom, Biology, Constitution, Courts, Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Education, Evolutionary biology, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Laws, Legal, science education |
Slate.com is all upset that repeal of the Louisiana Science Education Act of 2008 was was rejected yet again in a 3-2 vote in the State Senate. 19 year old Rice University Student Zack Kopplin has been leading the charge to get this “outrage” done away with once and for all, with help from the… more
Getting me an Education
| April 23, 2013 | Posted by andyjones under 'Junk DNA', Darwinism, Evolutionary biology, Intelligent Design, science education, The Design of Life |
Larry Moran has decided to educate me about junk DNA. I appreciate the level of detail he has provided. I am not an expert in this field. I do however have a brain and, as a physicist, a vastly superior brain (I joke, sort of). I am not an IDiot, nor am I a larey… more
ID Foundations, 18 (video): Dr Stephen Meyer of Discovery Institute presents the case for Intelligent Design (with particular reference to OoL)
Here, HT WK: embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt Take an hour and a half to learn what ID is about (yes, what it is really about [and cf. here at UD for correctives to common strawman distortions . . . ]), with particular focus on the origin of cell based life [OoL], through watching a… more
(More and more) Function, the evolution-free gospel of ENCODE
| April 4, 2013 | Posted by andyjones under 'Junk DNA', Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
Larry’s ‘reply’ (to my first post) appears to have replicated and evolved into a real reply (to my second post) with some real information. Well, a little information. When I say information, I don’t just mean grammatically correct and unambiguous English text, I mean things that offered ‘surprisal’ and improved my ability to understand the… more
Joe scores
| April 3, 2013 | Posted by niwrad under Darwinism |
In a previous post of mine Joe replied to a comment of an evolutionist: Evolutionist: “Reproductive success is usually what is meant by fitness. As the biomass of living bacteria currently far exceeds that of all other organisms on Earth, perhaps they should be considered the pinnacle of fitness.” Joe: “Kind of makes you wonder… more
Why on Earth would a layman accept Darwinistic claims?
| March 18, 2013 | Posted by William J Murray under Biology, Chemistry, Complex Specified Information, Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Human evolution, Mind, Origin Of Life |
First, by “Darwinistic” I mean “atheistic-materialist neo-Darwinist”, which includes the view that even the origin of life can be explained by reference to chance and natural law. As Alan Fox points out, many of those here are “laymen” when it comes to evolutionary biology. Most of us are not specifically schooled or trained in that… more
Logical inconsistency of Darwinism
| March 2, 2013 | Posted by niwrad under Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
I already wrote about some internal contradictions of evolutionism here here here here and here. Today I deal with another logical inconsistency of Darwinism that is directly related to its foundations. Darwinian evolution, which is supposed to have created purposelessly all the biological complexity on Earth, would work according to genetic variations and natural selection.… more
Function, the evolution-free gospel of ENCODE
| February 22, 2013 | Posted by andyjones under 'Junk DNA', Darwinism, Genomics |
There is no better title for this post than the very title some Darwinists chose for themselves: On the immortality of television sets: “function” in the human genome according to the evolution-free gospel of ENCODE Darwinists are still struggling to come to terms with the idea, from the ENCODE project, that 80% of the genome… more
What’s Your Evolutionary Quotient?
| February 9, 2013 | Posted by William J Murray under Atheism, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy |
Let’s consider that atheistic, Darwinstic materialism is true. Let’s say that what we believe and think are evolution-generated phenomena, the result of the physics of biology as it interacts with the environment. For instance, if I believe in God and think demons are real and that putting my socks on before I put my pants… more
Wiki’s F – - on ID, 6: Is all of this focus on the Wiki ID article mere tilting at a windmill that is pointless and so should be ignored?
| January 11, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, ID Foundations, Intelligent Design, Popular culture, science education, Science, worldview issues and society, Society |
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( To comment, kindly go here) One of the objections to the markup of the Wiki ID article is that this is tilting at a windmill. I disagree. It should already be plain that the Wiki article is representative of a standard set of talking points used to polarise the unwary against design theory, and… more
Wiki’s F – - on ID, 5: Subtly distorting the truth on Discovery Institute’s policy on Education in public schools, multiplied by a failure of due disclosure on judge Jones’ Kitzmiller/ Dover ruling
| January 10, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Constitution, Courts, Creationism, Darwinism, ID Foundations, Popular culture, Religion, Science, science education, Science, worldview issues and society |
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( To comment, kindly go here) Last time, we showed how Wikipedia’s article on Intelligent Design flagrantly distorts the history of the origins of ID as a modern movement. Today, our focus is on a subtler distortion: From the mid-1990s, intelligent design proponents were supported by the Discovery Institute, which, together with its Center for… more
Wiki’s F – - on ID, 4: Correcting a widely circulated propagandistic false history of the origins of intelligent design as a scientific school of thought
| January 5, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Courts, Creationism, Darwinism, Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, ID Foundations, Science, science education, Science, worldview issues and society |
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(To comment cf. here) Just now, I see where an objector to ID was saying that I a am tilting at windmills to take time to take apart the introduction to Wikipedia’s anti-ID hit piece presented as a NPOV review of ID from significant and credible sources. It bears remembering, then, that by Wiki’s admission… more
Wiki’s F – - on ID, 3: The pseudoscience false accusation vs the demarcation challenge for origins sciences
| January 4, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Design inference, Education, Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, ID Foundations, science education, Science, worldview issues and society |
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(To comment, go here) As we continue to mark up the Wikipedia introductory remarks on ID in its dismissive article, the next focal issue on failure to achieve the vaunted NPOV or carry out responsibilities of truthfulness, warrant and fairness, is: Intelligent design is viewed as a pseudoscience by the scientific community, because it lacks… more
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