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Soviet Cosmonaut No Atheist

May 3, 2006

World Magazine reported a surprise tidbit from history, to set the record straight: the first man in space was no atheist. According to an urban legend, Yuri Gagarin, who flew a Soviet rocket in 1961, said that he didn’t “see any god up here” in space. The quote has provided fodder for preachers ever since […]

Dumb Ideas

Stupid Evolution Quote of the Week: Scientists, Learn Darwinism on TV

April 18, 2006

In Current Biology, Kenneth E. Sawin of Wellcome Trust Center for Cell Biology at Edinburgh University was interviewed about his career. One of the questions was, “What are the big ideas for you now?” Here is part of his answer: Another thing that I think about, which may be more ethereal, is that cell biologists […]

Media

Gospel of Judas TV Documentary Sells Gnosticism to the Public

April 9, 2006

National Geographic aired its long-awaited documentary Sunday night about the discovery, restoration, and translation of a Gnostic manuscript found in 1970, the Gospel of Judas (see next entry). The trailers had titillated audiences that this was an explosive document that would call our deepest beliefs into question. The content of the documentary clearly gave better […]

Media

Can You Trust the Bible Skeptics?

April 7, 2006

Ever since National Geographic announced the completion of a translation of the Gospel of Judas (a 2nd-century apocryphal gospel attributed to, but not authored by, Judas), the news media have been abuzz with speculations that it provides a clearer view of Jesus from Judas’ point of view, and that the early church leaders suppressed it. […]

Education

Anti-ID Media Resorts to Mockery, Misrepresentation

March 2, 2006

Evolution News, a blog of the Discovery Institute ID think tank, was launched in 2004 to try to correct misrepresentation in the media. It never seems to have a shortage of material (see their 3/2/2006 post). Even though the Discovery Institute maintains public documents on its website defining what intelligent design is and what it […]

Biology

Alien Engineering: Is It Intelligent Design?

February 16, 2006

The SETI Institute finished airing a 2-part series on the History Channel called Alien Engineering (it will be rebroadcast on Feb. 18). The series, featuring SETI Institute scientists Seth Shostak and Frank Drake, asks the following questions: Prepare for an exercise in imagination. Suppose that an alien spacecraft crashed in the desert and we humans […]

Media

How Reporters Exaggerate Darwinism

February 3, 2006

“Scientists force evolution in the lab,” announces Robert Roy Britt for LiveScience (see MSNBC copy). A scientist forced a mutation that turned a green caterpillar into a black one. The reader doesn’t get the rest of the story till the last line: “The next step, the researchers said, is to see if the variations do […]

Cosmology

ID Film Takes Hollywood

January 15, 2006

Grauman’s Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard is a top tourist attraction in Tinseltown. It features dozens of handprints of famous movie and TV stars, from Lucille Ball and Bill Cosby to Mickey Mouse. This venue of many a blockbuster and glitzy opening night seemed hardly a place for naturalistic cosmology to take a thrashing, but […]

Intelligent Design

Bet on the Winning Dodo: Darwinism or Intelligent Design

January 7, 2006

A new film about the creation-evolution controversy is coming out, titled Flock of Dodos. Randy Olson, a marine biologist with a PhD in evolutionary ecology and another degree in filmmaking, decided to put this documentary together to help scientists realize that they are behind the curve on marketing their ideas. According to the Kansas paper […]

Dumb Ideas

How Apemen Learned to Give Christmas Presents

December 25, 2005

For your Christmas amusement, some scientists think they have solved the evolution of gift giving. In an announcement on EurekAlert called “Why we give: New study finds evidence of generosity among our early human ancestors,” the introduction states, “A groundbreaking new study examines the origins of holiday giving and finds that our early human ancestors […]

Education

How to Overcome Student Objections to Evolution

December 21, 2005

Biology teachers face increasing difficulty from students coming into class with bad feelings about evolution (11/30/2005, 08/30/2005). Many pro-evolution teachers will be attracted to methods that have a demonstrable track record of relieving tensions and facilitating the process of getting students to accept Darwin’s theory. David Sloan Wilson (Binghamton U, NY) has just the thing. […]

Media

Darwin Descendent Enters Narnia

December 15, 2005

Did you know that one of the great-great-great-grandsons of Charles Darwin plays the part of bad-boy Edmund in the new Chronicles of Narnia movie? After difficulty finding an appropriate person to play the part, Director Andrew Adamson saw a picture of Skandar Keynes and said, “I think it’s Edmund” and signed him up. Keynes gave […]

Politics and Ethics

Mao Tse-Tung Killed 77 Million for Darwin

November 30, 2005

World Net Daily reported that the body count from Mao’s reign of terror in China has been revised upward to 77 million by R. J. Rummel, a Nobel Peace Prize winning political scientist who had earlier estimated it at half that (38 million). This augments Mao’s Guinness reputation as the worst mass murderer in history. […]

Media

ICR Challenges Validity of Radiometric Dating

November 5, 2005

acked out the facilities of Shadow Mountain Community Church in El Cajon, California Saturday. Their frequent applause was not for contemporary musicians or a preacher, but for scientists. Ten miles from their headquarters, the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) had rented the large auditorium for the formal presentation of the results of its eight-year research […]

Cell Biology

Bacterial Flagellum Visualized

November 2, 2005

Tom Magnuson at Access Research Network found this link that came out last year but is too good to pass up: another visualization of the bacterial flagellum, the “poster child of the ID movement,” by Japanese researchers on NanoNet, the Nanotechnology Researchers Network Center of Japan. The 02/05/2004 NanoNet Bulletin features the bacterial flagellum with […]

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