Category: Intelligent Design
Sign here to help prof who wants to teach
| May 24, 2013 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Intelligent Design |
Apparently, even a well-respected academic like Thomas Nagel isn’t immune from the Night of the Long Weasels, so why should this guy expect to escape, unless … ? more
Naturalism, Intelligent Design and Extraordinary Claims
| May 24, 2013 | Posted by DonaldM under Biology, Creationism, Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Intelligent Design, Logic and First Principles of right reason, Philosophy, Science, Science, Philosophy and (Natural) Theology |
The late Carl Sagan is credited with popularizing the phrase “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”. (hereinafter this will be referred to as the “EC-EE” claim) While the phrase has become the skeptic’s mantra, its original roots probably trace back to the French mathematician and astronomer Pierre –Simon LaPlace (1749-1827) who once wrote: “the weight of… more
Darwin textbook author burbles on, misleading many
| May 23, 2013 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Education, Intelligent Design |
No wonder legacy media are declining. They should. more
FOR RECORD: In response to EL’s attempt to dismiss the invidiousness of “both the Nazis and KF think that . . .”
| May 23, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under academic freedom, Atheism, Culture, Education, ID Foundations, Science, worldview issues and society |
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UPDATE: Sometimes, it is needful to drive home a point, even when it is on an unpleasant matter and deals with uncivil conduct. For, unchecked incivility, willful disregard for the truth and fairness, and associated enabling behaviour are patently destructive. [For those who need help here, methinks the ghost of Pilate has somewhat to say… more
FOR RECORD: A further corrective note to Dr EL of TSZ
| May 22, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under ID Foundations, Science, worldview issues and society |
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The management of TSZ leaves me little alternative but to publish a corrective publicly. I see where TSZ continues to host the following long since corrected assertion: Kairosfocus, this is outrageous. Nobody here, to my knowledge, has suggested that you are a Nazi, and I certainly have not. This is false and should be known… more
Journal of Medical Ethics, the ghosts of Francis Schaeffer and C Everett Koop have somewhat to say to you regarding “post-birth abortion” . . .
| May 22, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under academic freedom, Free Speech, ID Foundations, Science, worldview issues and society, Video |
UD News has recently highlighted a debate on how the academy has reacted to objections to a bioethics paper that advocated “post-birth abortion.” (Cf. a noteworthy objection, here.) Including, “post-birth abortion” of the healthy but undesirable. A telling clip from the JME paper: we claim that killing a newborn could be ethically permissible in all… more
What’s really at stake in the Neanderthal art controversy: The racist implications of Darwin’s theory
| May 22, 2013 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design |
In truth, we don’t yet have much art of any type done by anybody surviving from tens of millennia ago, so most conclusions drawn will in fact be based on underlying philosophical assumptions. more
A corrective to some remarks regarding first principles of reason, showing that such first principles are just that . . .
| May 20, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Culture, Education, ID Foundations, Logic and First Principles of right reason, Philosophy, Science, worldview issues and society |
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It seems I need to headline a corrective footnote on basic reasoning, from an ongoing exchange in a current discussion thread: ________ >> I decided to take a look around via Google. It was saddening but unsurprising to see the party-spirited objections to first principles of reason coming from the circle of objector sites. Inadvertently, they… more
Is the Intelligent Designer an interventionist? A reply to Felsenstein and Liddle
| May 20, 2013 | Posted by vjtorley under Intelligent Design |
In a recent post over at Panda’s Thumb, entitled, Does CSI enable us to detect Design? A reply to William Dembski (7 April 2013), Professor Joe Felsenstein, an internationally acclaimed population geneticist who is one of the more thoughtful critics of Intelligent Design, takes issue with the claim made by Professor William Dembski and Dr.… more
Video: The Dennis Noble lecture in Suzhou China on physiology and Neo-Darwinian evolutionary biology . . . N.B. revolutionary, transforming ideas and facts
| May 20, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Cell biology, ID Foundations, Intelligent Design, Video |
Between Sal C and Nullasalus, this has come up: embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt Paper can be read here. Also cf. The Music of Life sourcebook, here. A key step in the reasoning: Noble’s pivotal point in light of his detailed argument: This is meant to support a thread of discussion, so kindly comment here.… more
Agnostic sociologist: “Unself-conscious” bigotry against Christianity hampers considering evidence for ID
| May 19, 2013 | Posted by News under Culture, Intelligent Design |
” One should not underestimate the amount of bigotry against Christianity at work here, albeit in the relatively unself-conscious way that in the past had been associated with anti-Semitism.” more
VIDEO: Doug Axe on making odds on getting to a protein by chance in Amino Acid sequence space
| May 19, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, ID Foundations, Irreducible Complexity, Origin Of Life, Video |
In Illustra Media’s Darwin’s Dilemma, there is a clip on proteins as islands of function in amino acid sequence space: embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt Food for thought. As a stimulus to such, let us next note how the bloggist Wintery Knight has given an interesting summary of the challenges involved if a chance-dominated process… more
Siding with Mathgrrl on a point, and offering an alternative to CSI v2.0
| May 18, 2013 | Posted by scordova under Complex Specified Information, Intelligent Design, Mathematics |
There are two versions of the metric for Bill Dembski’s CSI. One version can be traced to his book No Free Lunch published in 2002. Let us call that “CSI v1.0″. Then in 2005 Bill published Specification the Pattern that Signifies Intelligence where he includes the identifier “v1.22″, but perhaps it would be better to… more
Look at This Incredible Insect Wing Design
| May 18, 2013 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
It is intuitively obvious that insect wings, such as these shown from the desert locust, did not evolve from random chance events as evolutionists insist they did, and new research is helping to elucidate the underlying reasons. One glance at the insect wings pictured here reveals something special, but what is it? There is a… more
What qualifies as science in the wonderful world of Disney
| May 16, 2013 | Posted by scordova under Cosmology, Humor, Intelligent Design, Physics, Science |
The scientific enterprise entails: 1. observation 2. hypothesis 3. testing Consider this passage from the class text of an introductory cosmology class I took once upon a time: galaxies farther than 4300 megaparsecs from us are currently moving away from us at speeds greater than that of light. Cosmological innocents sometimes exclaim, “Gosh! Doesn’t this… more
An image challenge — solved
| May 16, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Intelligent Design |
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Just now VJT picked up a TSZ attempt to challenge CSI. I suggested wood grain as a possibility, leading to complex but not relevantly specified. Phineas did a Google Image search and came up, ash on ice. I did a similar search: This led me to seek to superpose and fit on a colourised version… more
CSI Revisited
| May 16, 2013 | Posted by vjtorley under Intelligent Design |
Over at The Skeptical Zone, Dr. Elizabeth Liddle has put up a post for Uncommon Descent readers, entitled, A CSI Challenge (15 May 2013). She writes: Here is a pattern: It’s a gray-scale image, so it is just one 2D matrix. Here is a text file containing the matrix: MysteryPhoto I would like to know… more
Video: Dr George Yancey documents progressivist anti-Christian and partisan biases in the university and even in IQ tests . . . with implications for addressing the commonly encountered “ID is Creationism in a cheap tuxedo” smear
| May 16, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under academic freedom, Atheism, Creationism, Culture, Education, ID Foundations, Science, worldview issues and society, Society |
Yesterday, I ran across the video to be shown below and posted a comment that I think needs to be headlined and seriously pondered if we are concerned that the university functions in an objective, fair-minded, truth-seeking way: This study (HT: WK) as presented in a short lecture by Dr George Yancey — a sociologist… more
The issue of the dark triad in the debates over design — the danger of cossetting an asp of evolutionary materialism-driven cold, manipulative narcissism, machiavellianism and sociopathy from Alcibiades to today
| May 15, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Culture, ID Foundations, Intelligent Design, Psychology, Science, worldview issues and society, Stirring the pot (tentative thoughts/explorations) |
“Cool” is often presented as the iconic, somewhat glamorous state of being calm, collected, in control. It is often viewed as highly desirable, sexy, balanced, stylish, just plain “right.” Oh, soo, desirable . . . But, beneath the surface of “cool,” there too often lurks a reptilian coldly amoral ferocity that marks all the difference… more
Is Darwinism a better explanation of life than Intelligent Design?
| May 13, 2013 | Posted by vjtorley under Intelligent Design |
Reading through a recent article by KeithS over at The Skeptical Zone, I was reminded of the following lyrics from the musical Annie Get Your Gun: Anything you can do, I can do better. I can do anything Better than you. No, you can’t. Yes, I can. No, you can’t. Yes, I can. No, you… more
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