http://www.uncommondescent.com The Intelligent Design Weblog of William Dembski, Denyse O'Leary & Friends Wed, 14 May 2008 20:36:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In "The Neural Buddhists" (New York Times, May 13, 2008), David Brooks (yes, he of the BoBos, the bohemian bourgeois*) references Tom Wolfe's dramatic 1996 article "Sorry, but your soul just died," .. in which he captured the militant materialism of some modern scientists.To these self-confident researchers, the idea that the ... http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/are-materialists-starting-to-understand-that-their-system-is-collapsing/ Flagella-like Propulsion for Microrobots Using a Nanocoil and a Rotating Electromagnetic Field Bell, D.J.   Leutenegger, S.   Hammar, K.M.   Dong, L.X.   Nelson, B.J.   Inst. of Robotics & Intelligent Syst., ETH Zurich Abstract A propulsion system similar in size and motion to the helical bacterial flagella motor is presented. The system consists of a magnetic nanocoil ... http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/emulating-the-%e2%80%9cappearance%e2%80%9d-of-design-in-nature/ What difference would a real live ET make to your faith (whatever it is?) Ted Peters, a researcher in the field of science and religion and author of SCIENCE, THEOLOGY, AND ETHICS (Ashgate 2003), is conducting a survey. The central question is this: Would contact with extraterrestrial intelligent life affect religion ... http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/take-this-survey-if-seti-found-et-would-that-destroy-your-faith/ Recently, Mark Bergin of World Magazine tried a novel approach to the Baylor tenure controversy: Employing Google's scholar-specific search engine, which limits results to academic journals, WORLD performed controlled searches for the names of each of this year's 30 tenure candidates. In general, those faculty members receiving tenure have published with ... http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/baylor-tenure-controversy-heres-a-dollar-google-me-a-scholar-and-other-news/ Was one woman who lived 150,000 to 200,000 years ago the ancestress of all of us? Science may not be sure, but pop culture is. Part One: Our Mitochondria: A piece in the puzzle of our origins? Part Two: What Does Our Mitochondrial DNA Say About Human Ancestry? Part Three: African Eve - ... http://www.uncommondescent.com/the-design-of-life/just-up-at-the-design-of-life-blog-african-eve/ Richard Pearcey traces how a Darwinian worldview leads to "delegated fascism". These are critical issues in debating the societal CONSEQUENCES of Evolution vs Intelligent Design, (as distinct from the scientific origin theories themselves.) --------------------------------- Abortofascism and Free-Market Homicide By Rick Pearcey, Pro-Existance, May 12, 2008 In a column titled "Atheism and Child Murder," Dinesh ... http://www.uncommondescent.com/philosophy/from-darwin-to-delegated-fascism/ From Darwin and design: historical essay: "The only distinct meaning of the word ‘natural’ is stated , fixed or settled ; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, i.e. to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or ... http://www.uncommondescent.com/evolution/darwin-correspondence-project/ Journalist Susan Mazur continues her series of remarkable articles about dissenters from neo-Darwinism with a compelling interview of Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, professor of cognitive science at the University of Arizona, and co-author (with Jerry Fodor) of the forthcoming book What Darwin Got Wrong. In the interview, Piattelli-Palmarini points out that many academic ... http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/they-really-fear-that-so-they-are-prudent-some-in-good-faith-some-for-calculated-fear-of-being-cast-out-of-the-scientific-community/ The essay by Jeffrey Schloss - excerpted in considerable part here - worriting about the "walls" the Expelled documentary is creating is a classic. Real Christians, presumably, wouldn't demand an accounting about the rapidly growing evidence against Darwinism and other materialist isms. And real Christians wouldn't make a film about the people who get ... http://www.uncommondescent.com/expelled/real-christians-would-not-have-made-the-expelled-film-right/ In an essay that is ten times the length of the following extracts, Jeff Schloss, a Christian College professor, weighs in on Expelled. He says Expelled misses the central issues. Unfortunately his essay also missed the central issue. His own personal religious views have led him to write the way ... http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/discovery-exfellow-weighs-in-lightly-on-expelled/