Category: Media
Media and the design of life
| May 3, 2012 | Posted by News under Media, News |
Corruption happens when non-news is heavily rewarded and news is punished. That certainly describes a lot of science news writing today. more
From The Best Schools: Seeing Past Darwin I: The Machine Metaphor
| April 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Media, News |
It’s a scandal that science journalists have been so slow to pick up on this story. For, make no mistake about it, the story is huge. more
Dead tree media starting to get it? Too much to hope, but still …
| April 23, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Media, News |
“Dennis Overbye of the New York Times seemed rather wary of hype about HEP, since he’s a veteran of seeing the Times burned by this sort of thing.” more
Tennessee school bill: Academic freedom is just a front?
| April 23, 2012 | Posted by News under Media, News, science education |
If a science is built on dodges ( = Darwinism), it should just be renovated in favour of a science that confronts the facts. more
Journalist would feel challenged if expected to report on evidence for design in nature?
| March 23, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Media, News |
Science journalism is crammed to bursting with this kind of self-righteous delusion, sad to see in intelligent people. more
Question for Barry: Why do people embrace Darwin today, when his cause is actually collapsing in science?
| March 9, 2012 | Posted by O'Leary under Culture, Darwinism, Media |
Who in their right mind would be a Darwinist in science today – if they had a free choice – in the face of lateral gene transfer and epigenetics? In “First Things: From Part of the Solution to Part of the Problem,” Barry Arrington tells a familiar story: How media – First Things is his… more
AAAS needs to take its own advice!
| February 20, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Media, Popular culture, Science |
If the AAAS participants didn’t realize something as obvious as that the birth rate has declined almost worldwide, why are they so sure their answers are right about everything else? more
Wikipedia vs. facts: Someone else discovers the hard way about Wikipedia’s “facts”
| February 15, 2012 | Posted by News under Media |
Messer-Kruse’s article is a must-read for teachers who blithely permit students to use Wikipedia as a source and for any students who get marks deducted if they use real sources instead more
The grand posturing and pretenses of mainstream media – and how it affects us
| February 8, 2012 | Posted by O'Leary under Culture, Media, News |
Serious discussion becomes difficult because, in the media world, establishment ideas are both the pieties and the iconoclasm, leaving no third chair for fresh thinking. more
A well-read Catholic responds to claims that “The Pope believes in Darwin!”
| February 6, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Media, News, Religion |
“I recommend people read JPII’s statement in full. It is a nuanced careful statement that identifies key places where Darwinism cannot be compatible with the Church’s understanding of who we are as human beings.” more
New York Times: Gray Lady not homeless … yet
| February 3, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Media, News |
Decreasing numbers of people believe something because they “saw it in the Times.” more
What difference did Ben Stein’s Expelled film make? Dembski’s surprisingly mixed review
| February 1, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Media |
“I would give the documentary a B, certainly not an A.” more
Gray Lady down: Britain’s Daily Mail Web site outpaces New York Times’?
| January 30, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Media, News |
The new media landscape will be full of upsets like this, and an obvious question around here is how will that affect ID. more
The creation of the dumb dinosaur – a work of contemporary journalism?
| January 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Media, News |
The journalist imbibes, with his draft of lager, a Darwinist worldview in which there is some kind of “ascent” over time of nesting creatures, from less care to more care? Is there? more
Carnivorous orangutans: Translation from the Darwinese
| January 18, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Media, News |
“The normally vegetarian orang-utans, which have been spotted knocking the small primates out of trees and killing them with a bite to the head.” more
When science writers can’t cope with honesty among scientists …
| January 13, 2012 | Posted by O'Leary under Media, Science |
Investigator Szostak can’t cope with science writer Flam’s demands for certainty because they interfere with rational thinking. Flam can’t cope with the reality Szostak sees. more
But then, Tom Chivers’ Brit toff club harrumphed a man onto Mars just last year, remember?
| January 11, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Media, News |
Chivers’ sort of Brit markets a superior attitude as an achievement in itself, not as a result of actual achievement. It’s the best they can come up with. more
Earth Flight: The BBC at its best
| January 2, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Media, News |
An excellent, if unintended, antidote to Darwinism. more
Should a student you know consider a career in journalism?
| December 16, 2011 | Posted by O'Leary under Media, News |
What can a degree in journalism really buy you today? You’d be surprised how little. more
How not to argue against ID?
| December 12, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Media, News |
Fact is, if you are a Darwin tenure bore talking to Tax TV … , more
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