Category: Intellectual freedom
Darwin and the Beauty Pageant
| June 9, 2011 | Posted by DonaldM under Darwinism, Evolution, Eyes Rolling, Free Speech, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Science, Society |
Lest there be any lingering doubt about how far Darwinians might go in the enforcement of the dogma, it now appears that even beauty pageant contestants are not immune to consequences for failing to toe the Darwinian line. Contestants in this year’s Miss USA pageant are being asked questions about whether evolution should be taught… more
Is Amazon now enforcing review standards?
| June 8, 2011 | Posted by News under academic freedom, Intellectual freedom |
At Cannuckian Yankee’s comment 14 on UD Contest post “Why do people refuse to read books they are attacking?” (now being judged), we learn, There’s a guy on Amazon who’s extremely anti-ID. He comments on or reviews just about every ID book, but it’s quite obvious that he never reads the books. He goes by… more
Breaking, breaking: ID-friendly math prof Granville Sewell gets apology and damages from journal
| June 8, 2011 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intellectual freedom, Mathematics |
Math journal retracted one of our UD authors’ accepted article only because Darwinist blogger complained A brief, lay-friendly, look at Sewell’s stifled paper is here. Comment on it’s significance here. This just in: Granville Sewell on the controversy. [This post will remain at the top of the page until 5:00 pm EST. For reader convenience,… more
Granville Sewell vindication latest in string of recent defeats for Darwin lobby … straw in the wind?
| June 8, 2011 | Posted by O'Leary under Darwinism, Intellectual freedom, Mathematics |
Journal’s apology story here. It wasn’t like this years ago. I remember Rick Sternberg writing to me mid-decade, about how the Smithsonian honchoes were, at that time, holding meetings to decide his fate. The problem was: They had to get rid of him because he doubted the Darwin lobby’ theories, but had broken no rules.… more
Bradley Monton on “Synthese affair” = anti-ID hit pieces in philosophy journal disclaimed
| May 19, 2011 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intellectual freedom |
Our favourite atheist philosopher Bradley Monton, author of Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design (Broadview Press, 2009), reflects on the Beckwith-Forrest-Synthese dustup which hit the New York Times last weekend. Noting that some philosophers have called for a boycott of Synthese because the journal’s regular editors disclaimed the tone of anti-ID pieces… more
He said it: At one time, questioning Darwinism’s extravagant and unsupported claims was – legal …
| May 13, 2011 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intellectual freedom |
In reviews and private correspondence, scientists like Lyell and Hooker questioned the extravagant claims that Darwin made for natural selection. Darwin himself was increasingly plagued by doubts after the first edition of the Origin. In subsequent editions, he kept backing off from natural selection as the explanation for all natural phenomena. Loren Eiseley writes in… more
Why one scientist checked out of Darwinism
| April 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intellectual freedom |
Because Darwinism requires “fantastic leaps of faith” The Darwinist troll bawling up a storm in his cave about this recent defection may not have heard about the one below: The author worked for ten years as a Senior Research Scientist in the medical and scientific instrument field. The complexity of life came to the forefront… more
Free excerpts from Nancy Pearcey’s Saving Leonardo
| April 17, 2011 | Posted by News under Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design |
Here are some excerpts from Nancy Pearcey’s Saving Leonardo, and some articles, not for the faint of heart. For example, Secularism has crippled America’s ability to respond effectively to such threats, because it reduces morality to the subjective level—to personal feelings or ethnic tradition. These are things that cannot be rationally debated.Persuasion gives way to… more
The Nature of Nature — sticky
| April 2, 2011 | Posted by William Dembski under Biology, Culture, Darwinism, Design inference, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary psychology, Informatics, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Mind, Multiverse, Natural selection, Neuroscience, Origin Of Life, Philosophy, Physics, Science |
THE NATURE OF NATURE is now finally out and widely available. If you haven’t bought it yet, let me suggest Amazon.com, which is selling it for $17.94, which is an incredible deal for a 7″x10″ 1000-page book with, for most of us, no tax and no shipping charge (it costs over $10 to ship this… more
Over a thousand pearls of wisdom from the slashdot combox
| March 19, 2011 | Posted by O'Leary under Darwinism, Intellectual freedom |
Here at Slashdot we are informed by someone or other that “There is a Texas bill, HB 2454, proposed by Republican State Rep. Bill Zedler, that will outlaw discrimination against creationists in colleges and universities. More specifically, it says, ‘An institution of higher education may not discriminate against or penalize in any manner, especially with… more
Libertarians Against Darwin
| January 13, 2011 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Free Speech, Intellectual freedom, Popular culture |
I was a big fan of Robert J. Ringer in the 1970s (author of the runaway bestseller WINNING THROUGH INTIMIDATION — which was not about learning to intimidate others but about preventing others from intimidating you — good information if you have to deal with Darwinists). In the 1980s Ringer became a champion of libertarianism, which… more
They said it: “Evolution is a Fact!”
| January 12, 2011 | Posted by kairosfocus under Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Education, Ethics, Evolution, Expelled, Intellectual freedom, Philosophy, Science |
The opening of the current version of the Wikipedia article, “Evolution as theory and fact,” (with links and references removed) reads: The statement “evolution is both a theory and a fact” is often seen in biological literature. Evolution is a “theory” in the scientific sense of the term “theory”; it is an established scientific model… more
Hello World! – An Introductory Post
| December 29, 2010 | Posted by nullasalus under Design inference, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Philosophy |
Greetings all. Since I’m going to be contributing some posts here at Uncommon Descent, it’s been suggested I explain to everyone just where I’m coming from intellectually and in the context of the Intelligent Design discussion. Before I do that, I just want to express my thanks to the powers that be on this site… more
Naturalism is a priori evolutionary materialism, so it both begs the question and self-refutes
| October 19, 2010 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Darwinism, Design inference, Education, Evolution, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Philosophy, Science |
The thesis expressed in the title of this “opening bat” post is plainly controversial, and doubtless will be hotly contested and/or pointedly ignored. However, when all is said and done, it will be quite evident that it has the merit that it just happens to be both true and well-warranted. So, let us begin. Noted… more
National Apologetics Conference — October 15-16, 2010
| September 2, 2010 | Posted by William Dembski under Culture, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Religion, Science |
This is an important event. I would encourage all UD readers to try to make it to it. I’ll be speaking on ID. For conference information, click here. more
NY Times slaps ID foes PZ Myers and other ScienceBlog authors
| July 31, 2010 | Posted by scordova under Culture, Humor, Intellectual freedom |
The stench of non-science coming out of ScienceBlogs.com has gotten so bad that it has drawn the attention of the New York Times! See: Unnatural Science. It would appear that the opponents of ID must resort to means other than science to challenge the hypothesis of Intelligent Design. Rather than appeals to evidence, the foes… more
Nature Editorial Attacks Christianity of Francis Collins
| July 22, 2010 | Posted by scordova under Culture, Darwinism, Intellectual freedom |
Casey Luskin reports : Nature Immunology Editorial Botches American Law and Science Education May, 2010 editorial in Nature Immunology makes it clear that they don’t trust religious persons–even those who are neo-Darwinian evolutionists like Francis Collins–in positions of scientific authority. The editorial (written by the journal’s editors) states: The openly religious stance of the NIH… more
Baylor’s New President Meets Baylor’s New Super-Genius Professor
| May 7, 2010 | Posted by William Dembski under Education, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design |
Below is an op-ed by me that appeared yesterday in the Baptist Press. It revisits the persecution by Baylor administrators of Robert Marks and his work on ID (for the history of what happened, go here). Specifically, it addresses the challenge that Marks’ work on ID is likely to pose to incoming Baylor president Ken… more
More coffee!!: Intellectual freedom in Canada: Ann Coulter visit
| March 23, 2010 | Posted by O'Leary under Intellectual freedom |
Controversial American lawyer and commentator descended on Canada, facing predictable demands from current and future tax burdens (= university admin and students who know a “free” breadbasket when they see one) that she be charged with/censored for hate speech. More here. Latest here: Coulter files human rights complaint in Canada. I hope exposing the shakedown… more
We’re Not Critics – We’re Enemies!
| March 5, 2010 | Posted by DonaldM under Climate change, Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Free Speech, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Media, Science |
Today’s Fox News website had this little story, entitled Climate Scientists Plan to Hit Back at Skeptics. In the article, Stanford University climate researcher Paul R. Ehrlich had this to say about global warming skeptics: “Most of our colleagues don’t seem to grasp that we’re not in a gentlepersons’ debate, we’re in a street fight… more
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