Category: Media

Wiki’s F – - on ID, 2: Wiki’s ideologically driven corruption of the definitions of science and its methods

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 …

… 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?

” … 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

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

“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

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

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”

… it’s quick to close the case, eager to peddle solutions, … more

The Design of the Simplest Self-Replicator

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

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

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

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?

Well, maybe not, but this stuff is certainly bad. more

Doubting pop science journalism doesn’t mean you don’t know your science

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?

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

PhD makes Eyewitless News … then bloggo mondo …

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Why much of the public doesn’t believe in science, a handy illustration

“Claim: Advanced dinosaurs may rule other planets” Yup. Maybe. more

Continuing major media circulation collapse: Implications for ID

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

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

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