Category: Science
Debating Darwin and Design: Science or Creationism? (1)
| September 11, 2012 | Posted by Joshua G under Creationism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science |
A couple of days ago I posted my opening statement to a formal online debate I’m currently engaged in with Christian neo-Darwinist Francis Smallwood at Musings Of A Scientific Nature. My opening statement can be found here, and his here. What follows are my opening thoughts on the question whether ID is ‘creationism in a… more
For record: Questions on the logical and scientific status of design theory for objectors (and supporters)
| August 28, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Design inference, Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, ID Foundations, Science, science education, Science, worldview issues and society |
Over the past several days, I have been highlighting poster children of illogic and want of civility that are too often found among critics to design theory – even, among those claiming to be standing on civility and to be posing unanswerable questions, challenges or counter-claims to design theory. I have also noticed the strong… more
Update: Toronto earns a bar to poster child status (as does Petrushka) in a TSZ thread, with several others joining in and showing the habitual incivility and strawman tactics of too many design objectors
| August 26, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, ID Foundations, Intelligent Design, Science, Science, worldview issues and society |
Sometimes UD commenter, NR has started a thread at TSZ, which addresses my new poster child of illogical conduct by objectors to design theory series. Unfortunately, the thread all too soon illustrates just why it is wise to cordon off sites that harbour abusive commentary as enablers of uncivil behaviour. And into the bargain, it… more
He said it: Toronto of TSZ etc on abductive inference to best explanation in science
| August 24, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Design inference, Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, ID Foundations, Intelligent Design, Science, science education |
The illustration to the right is a Hertzprung-Russell diagram of two star clusters, and is used to infer ages for these clusters. How is that done? Stellar clusters are gravitationally bound and so the stars seem to be of the same general age and composition, also they are at about the same distance from us.… more
ID as ‘Science of God’ (aka Theology)
| August 6, 2012 | Posted by Steve Fuller under Cosmology, Culture, Darwinism, Ethics, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science, Science, worldview issues and society |
A piece of mine has been just published in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC’s) excellent Religion and Ethics website. It provides a larger context for my own theologically positive approach to ID, which I realize is not everyone’s cup of tea. However, like Gregory Sandstrom, I welcome johnnyb’s intervention, which raises the issue of which… more
Michael Flannery: “Figures don’t lie but liars figure.”
| August 2, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Intelligent Design, News, Science |
“The data generated is never any better than the premises that lie behind the gathering of that data.” more
History can’t be a science, but it can certainly be a pseudoscience
| August 2, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Science |
As the human population’s average age rises in many places, due to low birth rates, we will likely see declines in general unrest. more
No, we didn’t know that about Francis Crick, double helix co-discoverer, either
| July 31, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Science |
“Francis Crick confessed that he was tripping the first time he envisioned the double helix.” more
How science should handle new ideas
| July 31, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Science |
“Science moves forward not by enshrining, but by doubting and improving on, the consensus opinion.” more
He said it: Michael Crichton on consensus science
| July 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Science |
Interestingly, the officially Christian American Scientific Affiliation is totally into consensus science. Strange turnabout, really. more
He said it: G. K. Chesterton on scientism
| July 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Science |
“Materialism is really our established Church; for the Government will really help it to persecute its heretics.” more
Nature editorial opposes funding cuts to political science
| July 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Science |
There may be solutions, who knows? But Nature’s editors do their readers a disservice by second-guessing opponents instead of demanding reform. more
Evidence for an Engineered Universe
| July 24, 2012 | Posted by johnnyb under Cell biology, Cosmology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Physics, Science, Video |
In the next video for the Engineering and Metaphysics conference, we have our keynote speaker, Walter Bradley, author of The Mystery of Life’s Origin (the book which kicked off the Intelligent Design movement). Here Bradley presents an overview of the cosmological case for design. Lots of interesting information from the man who started it all!… more
Biologic Institute, ID’s research arm, has a Facebook page
| July 17, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Science |
If you are reasonably sure you are not a troll, enjoy. more
Praise for Ted Davis’ recent BioLogos columns
| July 17, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Science |
Before the modern era, most writers assumed that the universe was created in six literal days, though some ancient sources take a different approach. But so? more
Scientists are beginning to forget Darwin, whether they admit it or not.
| July 11, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, News, Science |
“All of them [recent science papers] speak in machine terms (nanomachine, rotation, motor, mechanism, architecture) but none of them have much to say about evolution.” 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
God particle physicist struck from school textbooks, over religion issue
| July 10, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Religion, Science |
Sounds like Pakistan’s god is too small. 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