Category: Media
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
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
Why are you still reading Darwin’s pop science press, aka the Chicago Tribune?
| July 18, 2012 | Posted by News under Media, News |
” … the stories often carried fake bylines with American names instead of the names of the Filipino writers that really wrote them.” more
Design Detection with Conditional Kolmogorov Complexity
| July 14, 2012 | Posted by johnnyb under Comp. Sci. / Eng., Complex Specified Information, Engineering, ID Foundations, Informatics, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Media, Philosophy, Video |
Next up in the Engineering and Metaphysics series is a presentation by Winston Ewert. This one is on a new informatics metric, called conditional Kolmogorov complexity. Check it out! more
Evolution, climate change, and the multiverse sold together now in one convenient package
| July 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Media, News |
“Gross objected strenuously to the program and how it was made, criticizing it for not distinguishing solid science from speculation, … ” more
Integrating Non-physical Causation Into Cognitive Models
| July 12, 2012 | Posted by johnnyb under Comp. Sci. / Eng., Engineering, ID Foundations, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Media, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Video |
For the next installment of the Engineering and Metaphysics Conference Videos, we have a talk on setting up a testable line between physical and non-physical causation, as well as how one can integrate non-physical causation into models of cognitive processes. more
Beyond Functionalism in Architecture
| July 10, 2012 | Posted by johnnyb under Engineering, Media, Religion, Society, Video |
The next video from the Engineering and Metaphysics conference is with Dr. Mark Hall. Hall attempts to reconnect with historic architectural principles through architecture critic John Ruskin, and show what, besides just functionalism and good looks, are needed for lasting architectural impact. We don’t often think of truth as an architectural value, or even see… more
“So much of contemporary science writing traffics in the illusion of knowledge”
| July 10, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Media, Mind, News, Science |
… it’s quick to close the case, eager to peddle solutions, … more
The Design of the Simplest Self-Replicator
| July 9, 2012 | Posted by johnnyb under Cell biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Media, Origin Of Life, Video |
The first video from the Engineering and Metaphysics conference is from Arminius Mignea. His talk is about self-replication, and what is really required for self-replication to occur. Mignea reviews current attempts at self-replication, and shows the minimal structures needed for it to occur. The slides for the talk are available here. Enjoy! more
Science journal Nature wins libel case
| July 9, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Media, News, Science |
Well, how be this then: Hereafter, all British libel cases are always decided automatically for the plaintiff with all costs. Gavel. more
The Higgs hunt … Now we must find out what we found out
| July 5, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Media, News |
Right now it feels like celebrating someone’s birthday without knowing how old they are, exactly. more
UD Commenter Nick Matzke in Prestigious Scientific Journal Nature Again
| June 17, 2012 | Posted by scordova under Ecology, extinction, Global Warming, Media, Peer review, Science |
I believe this is already the 2nd time that Nick has graced the pages of the world’s leading science journal. See: Predicting a state shift in the biosphere, and communicating it. Looks like it is the cover story too! Nick and I have been opponents in the ID / Evolution debate for years. I’m glad… more
Science journalism at its worst?
| May 31, 2012 | Posted by News under Media, News, Science |
Well, maybe not, but this stuff is certainly bad. more
Doubting pop science journalism doesn’t mean you don’t know your science
| May 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Climate change, Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, News |
Science journalists should forego assuming that people who doubt are simply not science literate. more
Uncommon Descent contest: Contest offered for mendacity in journalism. But what about science journalism?
| May 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Media, News, Uncommon Descent Contest |
Do readers know of examples of actual fraud in science writing since 2000? Or reality avoidance so egregious that … more
From PhD Comics: The science news cycle
| May 21, 2012 | Posted by News under Media, News, Science |
PhD makes Eyewitless News … then bloggo mondo …
Why much of the public doesn’t believe in science, a handy illustration
| May 18, 2012 | Posted by News under Media, News, Science |
“Claim: Advanced dinosaurs may rule other planets” Yup. Maybe. more
Continuing major media circulation collapse: Implications for ID
| May 9, 2012 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design, Media |
As these behemoths declined in importance …, they grew increasingly easy for partisan interests to capture and completely dominate. more
The peppered moth shows how trivial Darwinism is, in real life
| May 5, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Media, News |
For decades, they had a botched experiment, now at last a trivial example. more
For record — Paul, Philemon, Onesimus, slavery etc. and the Christian ethics of the softened heart; a response to Dan Savage, Nick Matzke and others of like ilk
| May 5, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Culture, Education, Media, Popular culture, Religion, Science, worldview issues and society, Society |
As Dr Torley recently highlighted here at UD, Mr Dan Savage, an activist for homosexuality, recently tried to trash Bible-based Christian ethics (at a conference on bullying) by accusing the Bible of advocating slavery. (We need not elaborate on his publicly displayed ignorance on issues linked to the general, historic, NT-based Christian view on the… more