Comments on: The New Pope and ID

By: The Panda's Thumb

The Panda's Thumb — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:58:56 +0000

Victim of the Wedge?

The New York Times has a full story today on Cardinal Schönborn’s op-ed: Leading Cardinal Redefines Church’s View on Evolution. According to the story the op-ed was written with the urging of the Discovery Institute’s Mark …

By: The Buckingham Inquirer » Intelligent Design Tomfoolery III

The Buckingham Inquirer » Intelligent Design Tomfoolery III — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 05:22:46 +0000

[...] It’s not surprising that atheists like P.Z. Meyers don’t understand faith, but the ignorance of self-proclaimed Christian scientists like William Dembski about both science an [...]

By: The Buckingham Inquirer » Intelligent Design Tomfoolery III

The Buckingham Inquirer » Intelligent Design Tomfoolery III — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 05:19:36 +0000

[...] It’s not surprising that atheists like P.Z. Meyers don’t understand faith, but the ignorance of self-proclaimed Christian scientists like William Dembski about both science an [...]

By: debunkers.org

debunkers.org — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:50:49 +0000

Why Intelligent Design is Bad

William Dembski points out, indavertantly, why intelligent design (ID) is bad.

I’m predicting that Bush and Benedict XVI will play much the same role in the distintegration of evolution (i.e., the ateleological materialistic form of it that cu…

By: Abnormal Interests

Abnormal Interests — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:43:59 +0000

Leveraging the New Pope to Advance Intelligent Design Creationism

Those you who read these rambles regularly know that I think PZ Myers at Pharyngula has about the best blog on the web. However, I think he may have gone a little beyond the evidence today. He has a very…

By: Notes in Samsara

Notes in Samsara — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:10:09 +0000

Wishful Thinking…

the term “chance” when used in a technical, mathematical sense is simply a phenomenological statement; no underlying “cause” is either implied or dismissed. Thus there is no tension between what Ratzinger says here and what John Paull II said on ev…

By: stranger fruit

stranger fruit — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:10:33 +0000

More on Ratzinger and Evolution

I forgot to mention that the recent (2004) International Theological Commission report “Communion and Stewardship: Human Persons Created in the Image of God” (link to the Vatican copy) was written for Ratzinger and subsequently approved for publicati…

By: stranger fruit

stranger fruit — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 04:50:35 +0000

The (new) Pope and ID

I was no fan of Ratzinger as a Cardinal, and have little expectations of him as Benedict XVI. However, it seems Bill Dembski thinks that Benedict will sign on the line for ID. Witness:
[W]e can expect Benedict XVI to single out intelligent design for s…