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Nonsense and Nonscience

October 17, 2008

For an enterprise that prizes itself on objectivity and careful thought, science occasionally makes some outlandish claims. Here are some things that slipped past the scientific method into the popular news media. As good as it gets: Steve Jones says men have stopped evolving. Better enjoy what you have, because it’s not going to get […]

Philosophy of Science

Looking for Laws to Make Darwinism Scientific

September 15, 2008

Science needs natural laws. Darwinian laws that have been put forward by evolutionists contain so many exceptions and complexities, they seem to have a bad case of physics envy. Coping with Cope’s Rule: Evolution tends to make animals larger over time – except when it makes them smaller. In Science,1 Kaustuv Roy lamented the perils […]

Darwin and Evolution

How Not to Prove Positive Selection

September 5, 2008

Erase all that evidence for positive natural selection in the genes you’ve read about.

Dumb Ideas

Spore Game: Evolution or ID?

September 4, 2008

Spore is a highly-anticipated computer game that just came out. Evolutionists are claiming it as a model of how life evolves – but intelligent-design advocates are calling it an ID game, pure and simple. Who’s right? Carl Zimmer, a science writer, is among those counting Spore points for Darwin. His blog entry from […]

Genetics

Admissions of Ignorance in Evolutionary Theory

August 11, 2008

For a scientific idea some have proclaimed as a fact no longer in need of proof, and as well-established as gravity, Darwin’s theory of evolution still reveals surprising weaknesses when its defenders speak about the details. Detecting these weaknesses requires tuning out the media hype, and tuning into scientific papers and pro-evolution journals where evolutionary […]

Media

Phoenix Did NOT Find Mars Life

August 4, 2008

A media snafu has NASA spokespersons rushing to deny that life has been found on Mars, reported Space.com. For example, Live Science reporter Leonard David said that the White House has been alerted to the potential for new information about life on Mars based on findings from the Phoenix Lander. The apparent secrecy has teased […]

Intelligent Design

History Channel Airs Evolve

July 29, 2008

A new 13-part series on the History Channel, called Evolve, begins with an episode on the evolution of the eye. To sell the story, the blurb needed to cast Evolution as an inventor: They are one of evolution’s most useful and prevalent inventions. Ninety five percent of living species are equipped with eyes and they […]

Media

Yellow Journalism Invades Science

June 28, 2008

James Kerian, a mechanical engineer, has a colorful term for science reporting these days: “yellow science.” Writing for the Wall Street Journal June 25, he accused scientists of the same kind of sensationalism that disgraced journalism in the days of William Randolph Hearst. The occasion for Kerian’s criticism was reporting about man-made global […]

Health

Love Your Heart: Look at Nature

June 22, 2008

Heart patients can get instant relief from stress by simply looking out at nature through a window, reported Science Daily. It worked better if the patient looked at the real thing, not just a picture on TV. In a study funded by the National Science Foundation, scientists tested the heart rates of patients […]

Education

NSF Funds Misleading Cartoons on Origin of Life

May 31, 2008

A slick new multimedia website called Exploring Life’s Origins made its debut this month. Dazzling artwork and vivid animations are highlights of the site. The journey begins with a timeline of life’s evolution in which the viewer can drag a marker through billions of years of evolutionary progress. Controversial theories about the formation […]

Education

Darwinist Intolerance Continues Unabated after Expelled

May 12, 2008

Ben Stein’s documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed has ranked #12 in documentaries after 3 weeks. It could easily rank much higher after the DVD comes out. Has the scientific community shown any signs of remorse over their treatment of individuals and groups who question Darwinism, as illustrated in the film? ICR expelled: On April 24, […]

Media

Darwin and Hitler: A Trumped-Up Connection?

April 16, 2008

If there is anything critics of Ben Stein’s documentary Expelled are griping about, it is the association of Hitler with Darwin. What is the movie claiming and not claiming, and how solid is the historical connection? Scientific American, in particular, loathed the implication that Darwinism has anything to do with the Holocaust (but […]

Birds

Itemized Deductions

April 15, 2008

Here are some free deductions to take the edge off Income Tax Day…. as long as one deduces correctly. Israel is picking a national bird. So what feathered friend will represent the Holy Land? “The nine finalists include the hoopoe, the owl, the spur-winged plover, and the griffin vulture, but no doves.” Source: Science, Random […]

Intelligent Design

Expelled: Battle of the Reviews

April 7, 2008

Two weeks before Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed hits the theaters (April 18), reviewers are starting to weigh in. One could hardly find a bigger contrast between two reviews that came out a day apart. Dave Mosher, writing for Live Science, used every trick in the book to call this “a bad film in […]

Intelligent Design

Expelled Surges in the Blogosphere

March 29, 2008

There are probably few people who haven’t heard about Ben Stein’s upcoming documentary, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. The film documents persecution of intelligent-design advocates by Darwinists. Unusual for a non-fiction documentary, it seems to be the talk of the blogs. On March 24 it was #1 on BlogPulse, a Nielsen meter of the hottest topics […]

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