Category: Darwinism
Wiki’s F – - on ID, 2: Wiki’s ideologically driven corruption of the definitions of science and its methods
| January 2, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Cosmology, Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Design inference, Education, Evolution, Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, ID Foundations, Media, science education, Science, worldview issues and society |
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As we continue to mark up the Wiki article on ID, the next thing to notice is how the anonymous contributors have projected unto ID, an accusation of trying to redefine science and its methods in service to supernaturalistic creationism: Intelligent design (ID) is a form of creationism promulgated by the Discovery Institute . .… more
They said it: contrasted introductions to (and definitions of) Intelligent Design at Wikipedia and New World Encyclopedia
| December 29, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Darwinism, Education, ID Foundations, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, science education, Science, worldview issues and society |
News has just put up a post with the Meyer lecture on intelligent design (with a close focus on the pivotal case, origin of life, the root of Darwin’s tree of life analogy). I responded here, in light of the history of ideas issues raised by the lecture as well as the question of why… more
NOTICE: On the “Gish Gallop” false accusation tactic and fallacious dodge
| December 4, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Darwinism, language, Popular culture, Science, worldview issues and society |
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In a recent comment clipped by GP in the Jerad thread, Keiths has used the rhetorically dismissive term “Gish Gallop.” Let me cite: KS: . . . with gpuccio it is sometimes possible to zero in on the crux of a disagreement. You can’t do that with Gish Gallopers. Now, as I will shortly show,… more
The Unreasonableness of Naturalism
| November 15, 2012 | Posted by Steve Fuller under Darwinism, Evolution, Philosophy, Science, Society |
Some of you may have already seen that Thomas Nagel’s new book, Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False, has been subject to a blistering review in the liberal US weekly, The Nation. On the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s excellent Religion & Ethics website, I have commented on this… more
Debating Darwin and Design: Science or Creationism? (2)
| November 2, 2012 | Posted by Joshua G under Courts, Creationism, Darwinism, Religion, Science |
Some readers here may be aware of an online debate I’m taking part in with a neo-Darwinist (and friend), Francis Smallwood. Francis blogs at Musings of a Scientific Nature. We are currently discussing the issue of whether intelligent design is just a recent strain of creationism, and whether it is a legitimate scientific theory. What… more
A reply to Dr Dawkins’ September Playboy interview
| October 29, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, Philosophy, Popular culture, Religion, Science, science education, Science, worldview issues and society, Society |
In an interview with Playboy, September just past, Dr Dawkins made some dismissive remarks on the historicity of Jesus, in the context of having made similarly dismissive talking points about Intelligent Design. As UD News noted: PLAYBOY: What is your view of Jesus? DAWKINS: The evidence he existed is surprisingly shaky. The earliest books… more
UD PRO-DARWINISM ESSAY CHALLENGE
On Sept 23rd, I put up an essay challenge as captioned, primarily to objecting commenter Jerad. As at October 2nd, he has definitively said: no. Joe informs us that Zachriel has tried to brush it aside: Try Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859). It’s a bit dated and longer than 6,000 words, (the 6th edition is… more
Friends are talking about the Person of Interest premier September 27, 2012 where …
| October 1, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Media, News |
… the villain was spouting stuff about humans being accidents full of “bad code.” Like Darwin’s followers’ junk DNA before ENCODE? more
A “remarkable fact”
| September 29, 2012 | Posted by David Anderson under Darwinism |
Let’s take again that quotation out of Richard Dawkins’ “The Greatest Show on Earth (pp. 332-333)”, published as many ages ago as the year 2009, quoted at http://www.evolutionnews.org/2012/09/in_debate_brita_1064521.html Leaving pseudogenes aside, it is a remarkable fact that the greater part (95 percent in the case of humans) of the genome might as well not be there,… more
Something to Scratch Your Head About
| September 24, 2012 | Posted by PaV under Darwinism, Evolution, Genomics |
At PhysOrg they have a blurb about a paper showing that an organism that is 99.99% (!!) identical has, nevertheless, found a way of dealing with the presence of Uranium in completely different ways. Absolutely fascinating! Obviously we’re dealing with two very different environments—one is in a volcanic spring, and the other is atop a… more
Debating Darwin and Design: Science or Creationism? (1)
| September 11, 2012 | Posted by Joshua G under Creationism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science |
A couple of days ago I posted my opening statement to a formal online debate I’m currently engaged in with Christian neo-Darwinist Francis Smallwood at Musings Of A Scientific Nature. My opening statement can be found here, and his here. What follows are my opening thoughts on the question whether ID is ‘creationism in a… more
Are these atheists and agnostics really covert creationists?
| August 27, 2012 | Posted by Joshua G under Atheism, Creationism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
We’ve all heard it before. Time and time again the somewhat tiresome and predictable Darwinian propagandists, in a fit of florid indignation, assert that intelligent design will be the death of science and the dawn of theocracy. The claim that ID is nothing more than warmed-over creationism is one that has been thoroughly addressed by… more
Richard Dawkins is Playboy’s September interview
| August 22, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Darwinism |
“PLAYBOY: You’ve had a lot of fun deconstructing the idea of the intelligent designer. ” more
He said it: “There is more evidence for evolution than … the idea that things are made up of atoms”
| August 19, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, News, science education |
The only question that remains is, is he stupid or does he think everyone else is? more
Shut up or else, Darwin explained
| August 18, 2012 | Posted by News under academic freedom, Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
Rosenberg attacks Fodor’s doubt abut Darwinism because he fears it will lead to support for religion. more
Is there no point whatever at which Richard Dawkins just becomes an embarrassment to his supporters?
| August 17, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News |
Dawkins makes our lives easier but only the way an escalator saves us climbing stairs. We need exercise. more
More reasons why Dawkins should just retire: No one, it turns out, defends Darwin on the evidence.
| August 16, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, News |
Pigliucci on Dawkins: “displaying a surprising amount of ignorance of both the history of biology and the current status of evolutionary theory. ” more
Richard Weikart’s book, Socialist Darwinism, now available online
| August 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, News |
In 1996, it “won the biennial prize of the Forum for History of Human Science for the best dissertation in that field.” more
You can be a stupid Darwinist, and make it work, but you can’t be a stupid ID theorist and make it work
| August 13, 2012 | Posted by News under Christian Darwinism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News |
The big question is, why are Christians paying for Christian Darwinism. Thoughts? more