Category: Intellectual freedom
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
Ben Carson on Education
| November 8, 2012 | Posted by James Barham under academic freedom, Education, Intellectual freedom, Video |
Denyse O’Leary has a piece that may interest UD readers at TheBestSchools.org: Readers may remember Ben Carson, the gifted neurosurgeon who failed Political Correctness 101 at Emory University and then gently but pointedly attacked PC in his commencement address. Carson’s sin was to point out that Darwin’s theory of evolution offers no firm basis for… more
Wikipedia says author not acceptable source for his own work
| October 1, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Intellectual freedom, News |
Just another reason why the News desk here rarely or never uses Wikipedia as a source. more
Wise words on free speech …
| August 18, 2012 | Posted by News under Intellectual freedom, News |
A correct understanding of which is becoming critical. more
“How to Think”, and How Not to – and How to Grow Up before it’s too late
| July 15, 2012 | Posted by News under Intellectual freedom |
It’s not that the Common Dreams folk don’t have topics for criticism, but that they don’t have a philosophical position from which criticism could be meaningful or morally compelling. more
“Pseudoscience” sometimes just means research the tenure bores should have done but didn’t
| June 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design |
And now they have to persecute everyone who did. more
Kiddie neurosurgeon Ben Carson, evolution, and morality
| May 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience, News |
“many evolutionists — from Darwin to the present — have argued and are still arguing precisely the point that Dr. Carson was highlighting” more
They said it: Dr Nick Matzke vs Dr John Lennox on the Laws of Nature and Miracles
| April 29, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Culture, Education, ID Foundations, Intellectual freedom, Philosophy, Popular culture, science education, Science, worldview issues and society |
In the ongoing Methodological Naturalism thread, at no. 66, Dr Matzke is on record: massive observational evidence and the logic of our understanding of natural laws rules say that that miracle thing can’t happen. In short he holds that the laws of nature forbid miracles. (And recall, here, we are speaking about the late publicist… more
Self-organization theorist James Shapiro on Tennessee academic freedom bill
| April 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, News |
In “What Is the Best Way to Deal With Supernaturalists in Science and Evolution?”(Huffington Post , April 16, 2012), University of Chicago microbiologist James Shapiro, suggests, Thirty years ago, I was at a conference in Cambridge, England, to celebrate the centennial of Darwin’s death. There, Richard Dawkins began his lecture by saying, “I will not… more
Coppedge case: Hostility to ID is largely information-free
| April 16, 2012 | Posted by News under Intellectual freedom, News |
It’s not that there isn’t an anti-ID blogosphere (yes, there is, and it’s huge), but …there is no Blog of Record. more
David Coppedge trial: Coppedge was never informed that he was being investigated
| March 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Intellectual freedom, News |
And after you read this, you will never ever try selling chocolate almonds for charity at work again. more
Dave Coppedge trial: Today’s Darwinism suits a world run by bureaucrats
| March 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Intellectual freedom, News |
He kept his mouth shut about ID? But that makes no difference once they knew he wasn’t just a stooge. more
Professional banishment? For fronting facts? No, this isn’t the usual story …
| March 9, 2012 | Posted by News under Intellectual freedom, News, Science |
“Eventually, other geologists joined his cause and filled in the intricate details, …” more
Dave Coppedge case spotlights Darwin Guild’s “inquisitorial services”
| March 6, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intellectual freedom, News |
“Most folks in scientific fields, faced with the fear that Darwinists seek to instill, keep quiet about their Darwin doubts.” more
Mimivirus discoverer doubts Darwin, banned from publication in France
| March 5, 2012 | Posted by O'Leary under Darwinism, Intellectual freedom, News |
“Scientists at Raoult’s lab say they wouldn’t want to work anywhere else.” more
Was Isaac Newton (1642-1727) a bad scientist because he believed the world ends in 2060?
| February 19, 2012 | Posted by News under Biography, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, News |
What would become of Newton at the hands of a British science czar like Beddington who advocates that scientists be “grossly intolerant”? more
Wikipedia to black out in English for 24 hours tomorrow …
| January 17, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Free Speech, Intellectual freedom, News |
… to protest government interference in the Internet more
Dave Coppedge: The only forbidden assumption is that evidence for fine-tuning is not an illusion
| November 25, 2011 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, News |
Tax-supported science gets taken over by new atheist viewpoints, according which any explanation is acceptable except fine-tuning or design. more
ID Foundations, 10: Alfred Russel Wallace takes on the attitude and assumptions behind methodolical naturalism
| November 16, 2011 | Posted by kairosfocus under academic freedom, Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, Education, ID Foundations, Intellectual freedom, Philosophy, science education |
(Series) Alfred Russel Wallace is the all but forgotten co-founder of modern evolutionary thought. His major book reveals a bit of why, right from the title and sub-title: The World of Life: a manifestation of Creative Power, Directive Mind and Ultimate Purpose. In short, Wallace was a design thinker, and in fact he was also… more
Growing demand from governments worldwide, to control the Internet
| October 11, 2011 | Posted by O'Leary under Intellectual freedom, News |
“policy authority for Internet-related public issues is the sovereign right of states.” more