Category: Popular culture
A video challenge to the evolutionary materialist world-picture that is often presented in the name of big-S Science
| January 15, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Multiverse, Popular culture, Science, science education, Science, worldview issues and society, Video |
Our indefatigable Bornagain 77 has provided a link to a video documentary, The Signs: embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt (NB: Cf. notices at the linked. Of course, this is a challenge, showing it is not tantamount to endorsing everything claimed therein — such as, some claims on the Golden Ratio. {Added, 01:16: At the 1 hr… more
Wiki’s F – - on ID, 6: Is all of this focus on the Wiki ID article mere tilting at a windmill that is pointless and so should be ignored?
| January 11, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, ID Foundations, Intelligent Design, Popular culture, science education, Science, worldview issues and society, Society |
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( To comment, kindly go here) One of the objections to the markup of the Wiki ID article is that this is tilting at a windmill. I disagree. It should already be plain that the Wiki article is representative of a standard set of talking points used to polarise the unwary against design theory, and… more
Wiki’s F – - on ID, 5: Subtly distorting the truth on Discovery Institute’s policy on Education in public schools, multiplied by a failure of due disclosure on judge Jones’ Kitzmiller/ Dover ruling
| January 10, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Constitution, Courts, Creationism, Darwinism, ID Foundations, Popular culture, Religion, Science, science education, Science, worldview issues and society |
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( To comment, kindly go here) Last time, we showed how Wikipedia’s article on Intelligent Design flagrantly distorts the history of the origins of ID as a modern movement. Today, our focus is on a subtler distortion: From the mid-1990s, intelligent design proponents were supported by the Discovery Institute, which, together with its Center for… more
The Magician’s Twin — C[live] S[taples] Lewis and the case against Scientism
| January 9, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Philosophy, Popular culture, Religion, Science, science education, Science, worldview issues and society, Video |
First, let’s watch: embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt Then, having watched, let us now discuss, in light of the ongoing debate on the rationality of scientism-rooted a priori evolutionary materialist atheism, here. Also, the issues that come up as our civilisation metaphorically stands on the deck of a ship in Fair Havens and contemplates what… more
Another F double minus: Continuing to correct Wikipedia’s article on ID
| December 30, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under ID Foundations, Intelligent Design, Popular culture, science education, Science, worldview issues and society, Society |
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Yesterday, we saw how Wikipedia is one of the most influential sites on the Internet, how it vaunts itself on its commitment to NPOV, a neutral point of view: Editing from a neutral point of view (NPOV) means representing fairly, proportionately, and as far as possible without bias, all significant views that have been published… more
A tale of two tragedies, in China and the US — reflections and suggestions
| December 15, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Constitution, Culture, Ethics, Laws, News, Off Topic, Popular culture, Society |
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Yesterday was a hard day, even for those like me who were quite late to the news. We woke up here to the news on BBC — a Caribbean tradition — that someone in China had attacked a classroom with a knife of some kind and had slashed twenty-two children. This, in a country where… more
Noted philosopher William Lane Craig responds to the American Humanist Association “Kids without God” web site
| December 14, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Philosophy, Popular culture, Religion, Science, science education, Science, worldview issues and society |
As I have just noted, the AHA has put up a blog promoting its brand of evolutionary materialist naturalism to children: . . . the AHA has a web site that promotes its brand of naturalism — in effect, atheism rooted in evolutionary materialism, but with the attempt to promote human values and being “good… more
NOTICE: On the “Gish Gallop” false accusation tactic and fallacious dodge
| December 4, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Darwinism, language, Popular culture, Science, worldview issues and society |
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In a recent comment clipped by GP in the Jerad thread, Keiths has used the rhetorically dismissive term “Gish Gallop.” Let me cite: KS: . . . with gpuccio it is sometimes possible to zero in on the crux of a disagreement. You can’t do that with Gish Gallopers. Now, as I will shortly show,… more
NOTICE: A few corrective remarks for some hostile scrutinisers from Anti Evo etc.
| November 21, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Courts, Popular culture, Religion, Science, worldview issues and society, Society |
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I have noticed that the usual hostile scrutinisers at some objector sites are back on their Saul Alinsky, dismissive mockery and well-poisoning tactics. (I suppose they have not liked the situation where in recent weeks we have had some useful and reasonably civil exchanges here at UD under living room rules, giving the lie to… more
A reply to Dr Dawkins’ September Playboy interview
| October 29, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, Philosophy, Popular culture, Religion, Science, science education, Science, worldview issues and society, Society |
In an interview with Playboy, September just past, Dr Dawkins made some dismissive remarks on the historicity of Jesus, in the context of having made similarly dismissive talking points about Intelligent Design. As UD News noted: PLAYBOY: What is your view of Jesus? DAWKINS: The evidence he existed is surprisingly shaky. The earliest books… more
So what happened when that kiddie surgeon Ben Carson gave the speech at Emory graduation?
| May 16, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News, Popular culture |
Realize: Kid surgeon Ben Carson may be the last guy to ever give a speech at that U who doesn’t conform to their stupid political correctness. more
Doubts about Darwin spreading into the Brit population?
| May 15, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News, Popular culture |
Jones should enjoy her freedom to notice that because it may soon be made clear to her that Darwinism is in fact a source of Really Important Enlightenment to power brokers … 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
They said it: Dr Nick Matzke vs Dr John Lennox on the Laws of Nature and Miracles
| April 29, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Culture, Education, ID Foundations, Intellectual freedom, Philosophy, Popular culture, science education, Science, worldview issues and society |
In the ongoing Methodological Naturalism thread, at no. 66, Dr Matzke is on record: massive observational evidence and the logic of our understanding of natural laws rules say that that miracle thing can’t happen. In short he holds that the laws of nature forbid miracles. (And recall, here, we are speaking about the late publicist… more
Is the dismissal by asserting “fallacy of personal incredulity” itself a fallacy?
| April 26, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Darwinism, Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, ID Foundations, language, Philosophy, Popular culture, Science, worldview issues and society |
Yesterday, UD’s News announced a free chart of fallacies. I thought, oh, yay, let’s download. But, once I began to look at the chart, I noticed that it presented Plato, Socrates and Aristotle in a way that seemed to mock the orthodox Christian triune concept of God. (Did it ever strike the creator of the… more
Popular Darwinism explains your local booze can …
| April 18, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, News, Popular culture |
Natural selection explains why you always feel smarter after a few beers. 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
Q: “What does the design theory debate have to do with the law of non-contradiction (LNC)?” A: “A lot!”
| February 17, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Philosophy, Popular culture, Science, worldview issues and society, Society |
The latest flare-ups in the debates over design theory in and around UD have pivoted on the Law of non-contradiction; one of the most debated classical principles of logic. Why on earth is that so? The simple short answer is: if we are to make progress in debates and discussions, we must be at minimum… more
Marking up ES’s attempted rebuttal of the Law of Non-Contradiction on perceived implications of Quantum effects
| February 13, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Philosophy, Popular culture, Science, worldview issues and society |
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I have of course put in my own overall rebuttal to ES’s reply to SB’s challenge, but I feel a commentary on points will also be helpful. U/D, Feb 20: I have taken up the general LNC issue, here.) Such is best done using a full post, so, I clip from EL’s own post. My… more
Social psychology 1, Evolutionary psychology 0
| February 13, 2012 | Posted by O'Leary under Evolutionary psychology, Popular culture |
“Fear of impregnation by foreign invaders” (which evolution somehow captured in a woman’s genes) is a ridiculous explanation for racism during ovulation. How about general discomfort due to hormone flux? more