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Darwinian Ethics Launch Unexplored Blessings or Curses

April 30, 2008

For a theory ostensibly restricted to biology, evolution sure has a lot of supporters interested in politics and ethics. Look at what leading Darwinists are promoting. Some of them are rushing headlong where angels fear to tread. Where they will end up is anyone’s guess. Their potential for changing life, culture, religion, education – even […]

Human Body

Can Hardwired Humans Have Rational Choice?

April 23, 2008

Two articles recently claimed that we humans are “hardwired” for certain processes. Fairness: Science Daily reported on work by UCLA psychologists that suggest humans are “hardwired for fairness.” A sense of contempt arises when games appear rigged unfairly, they found. The psychologists found a particular region of the brain was activated during this response, but […]

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 […]

Bible and Theology

Darwinism and Logic: How Strong a Grip?

April 14, 2008

Science and logic are inseparable. Whether one approaches the study of nature from reason (rationalism) or evidence (empiricism), logical inferences and deductions are essential for understanding – or for claiming one’s scientific work produces understanding. When it comes to the reigning evolutionary perspective, though, how can a blind, chancy process like evolution produce reason, laws […]

Dinosaurs

Dinosaur Expert Criticizes Uber-Darwinists More than Biblical Creationists

April 13, 2008

One of the field researchers most identifiable with dinosaurs is Dr. Robert Bakker, a colorful individual who’s had a long friendly rivalry with an equally iconic figure of the modern dinosaur hunter, Jack Horner (e.g., 11/24/2007). Brian Switek interviewed Bakker on the Laelops Science Blog. He introduced him as “one of the most famous paleontologists […]

Intelligent Design

Big Science Fights Its Customers

April 9, 2008

Has “Big Science” lost contact with the public it serves? Several recent reports show the scientific establishment (as represented by the leading journals) taking positions at polar opposites of the majority, and wagging the dog of the body politic. Chimeras: Even though ethicists have called it “a monstrous attack on human rights,” to blend human […]

Education

Darwin on a Chip

April 8, 2008

PhysOrg, EurekAlert and and Science Daily announced “Evolution on the table top.” Reporting on a paper in PLoS Biology by Brian Paegel and Gerald Joyce at Scripps, the article claims that the two scientists “have produced a computer-controlled system that can drive the evolution of improved RNA enzymes—biological catalysts—without human input.” The scientists claim they […]

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 […]

Darwin and Evolution

Darwin and Complexity: Another Genetic Solution?

April 2, 2008

It remains one of the biggest obstacles to belief in evolution that a random, unguided process could build an eye, a wing or any of thousands of complex structures.

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 […]

Bible and Theology

Psychology Without Darwin

March 21, 2008

Can psychology kick the Darwin habit? For years it has been conventional to express all human actions in Darwinian terms. We struggle with city life, for instance, because we evolved to hunt prey in the savannah – not the Georgia kind, but the African plains where we first climbed down from the trees to walk […]

Politics and Ethics

Adulterers: Evolution Made Us That Way

March 19, 2008

Two articles that appeared the same day on Live Science are a study in contrasts. One was titled, “Surviving Infidelity: What Wives Do When Men Cheat.” The other was titled, “Are Humans Meant to Be Monogamous?” The thread that tied them together was evolution. The first article admitted the distress, shame, and sense […]

Bible and Theology

How to Address an Alien

March 17, 2008

How would you like this job: your assignment is to be the speechwriter for planet earth. You are to figure out what our first message is to the aliens – to give them a good first impression as we introduce the human species to the galactic community. “No kidding? What does it pay?” […]

Education

Polls Produce Politically-Incorrect Results

March 2, 2008

Polls are like a box of chocolates; you never know what you are going to get. In a survey conducted by the Channel One Network, a broadcast service for public schools, students were asked if they thought schools should teach only intelligent design, teach only evolution, or teach both. A majority (52%) responded for teaching […]

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