On October 12, Jonathan Wells spoke opposite Skeptic magazine editor Michael Shermer at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC. Shermer was promoting his new book, Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design, and Wells was promoting his book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design.
Shermer appears to be a favorite of [...]
Check out this great looking website (if only the content matched in quality): http://richarddawkins.net.
Anybody who is willing and able to upgrade the look, feel, and functionality of this site (Uncommon Descent) to match that of the Dawkins site will receive three of my books autographed. What a deal. Think it over.
In his 2003 paper, “How far are we from a quantum theory of gravity?” especially p. 49. Lee Smolin invokes the no free lunch theorem to argue that in searching for the minimum of a complicated but unknown potential there is no chance of doing better than a random search unless the search algorithm has [...]
This story has been of ongoing interest. Here is the latest.
SSHRC doubts the science of evolution
In rejecting a proposed study, the eminent science council shows it has become infected with postmodern drivel
By Dan Adleman
In the summer issue of Humanist Perspectives, Gary Bauslaugh reports that the Social Sciences and Humanities Research [...]
This just in from a colleague and posted with his permission. For the record:
I did not withdraw from the Dover case — the Thomas More Law Center fired me over a perceived conflict of interest relating to my role as academic editor of the Foundation for Thought and Ethics (the publisher of the book in [...]
E.O. Wilson thinks that after years of reaming religious believers he can now ingratiate himself with them. Fine. Let him and his colleagues give up their monopoly on the teaching and government funding of materialistic evolutionary theories.
Can E. O. Wilson really save the world?
Ivan Semeniuk
New Scientist, 30 September 2006
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19125711.300-can-e-o-wilson-really-save-the-world.html
Often cited as Darwin’s true [...]
Leave it to Jonathan Wells to tell it like it is:
. . . The truth is Darwinism is not a scientific theory, but a materialistic creation myth masquerading as science. It is first and foremost a weapon against religion – especially traditional Christianity. Evidence is brought in afterwards, as window dressing.
This is becoming increasingly obvious [...]
Paul Nelson spent yesterday morning in the editorial offices of Dagbladet, the main daily newspaper in Oslo, and fielded reader’s questions via the Internet. Approximately 1,000 emails came in. Here is the exchange: http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2006/09/20/477320.html.
Note that the title of the Dagbladet piece, “Hadde Darwin Rett?” means “Was Darwin Right?”
Ferns provide model for tiny motors powered by evaporation
Scientists looked to ferns to create a novel energy scavenging device that uses the power of evaporation to move itself — materials that could provide a method for powering micro and nano devices with just water or heat.
“We’ve shown that this idea works,” said [...]
Here’s an illuminating book review. We are increasingly seeing two streams of Darwinism — one which says there’s no problem reconciling it with religion; the other which sees the two as completely incompatible. As the reviewer notes: “Stanovich takes the hard line that accepting darwinism has to mean opposing virtually all religious beliefs. He praises [...]
Here is the link to the full Vatican Radio published transcript of the Pope’s Regensburg address Sept 12th 2006 together with a relevant extract:
http://www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=94805
We believe in God. This is a fundamental decision on our part. But is such a thing still possible today? Is it reasonable? From the Enlightenment on, science, at least in [...]
Perhaps the significance of this announcement should be read in light Ken Miller’s pronouncement that the Pope should embrace Darwinian evolution and urge Catholics to reject intelligent design: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/kenneth_miller/2006/09/miller.html.
Vatican: Pope slams evolution
Source: http://ansa.it/main/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2006-09-12_1128196.html
‘Accounts about Man don’t add up without God’ says pontiff (ANSA) - Regensburg, September 12 - Pope Benedict XVI on Monday issued [...]
I haven’t even read the entire article yet. But I just had to post this. From what little I’ve read, this Physorg.com article positively jives with Davison’s theory on evolution.
Check out Jeffrey K. McKee’s book The Riddled Chain. McKee, as you might recall, stood in the way of Bryan Leonard completing his dissertation work at Ohio State University (blogged here). As Jonathan Wells noted in his Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design, “Bryan Leonard is a high school teacher who [...]
Paul Myers, no longer content to shoot himself in the foot, is now focusing on more vital parts of his anatomy. Check out the following: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/09/ken_miller_creationist.php. Ken Miller is the best friend Myers and his merry band of atheists ever had, putting a veneer of respectability and religious tolerance over the village atheism of Darwin’s [...]