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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 […]

Bible and Theology

The Fruits of Two Worldviews

February 29, 2008

Of all the arenas of state-sponsored genocides of the 20th century, the Killing Fields of Cambodia were among the most disturbing. There, in a massive social engineering project, a radical communist government systematically starved, tortured and murdered nearly two million people with the brutal efficiency of an assembly line operation. The regime outlawed all religions. […]

Health

For Healthy Society, Father Knows Best

February 18, 2008

Science Proves Common Sense Dept. Swedish scientists have found that “Children Who Have An Active Father Figure Have Fewer Psychological And Behavioral Problems,” according to a report on Science Daily. In addition, “Children who lived with both a mother and father figure also had less behavioural problems than those who just lived with their mother.” […]

Politics and Ethics

Nazi-Era Scientists Were Willing Colluders

February 17, 2008

A seven-year study of the conduct of the German research funding agency, the DFG, was completed last month. Historians focused specifically on the Nazi years, 1933-1945. The report was mentioned by both Nature1 and Science.2 The upshot is that many German scientists went along with Hitler’s regime without resistance. Ulrich Herbert, a historian […]

Health

Beat the Crowds: Go Outdoors

February 4, 2008

Fewer people are feeling close to nature, said a report on PhysOrg. According to a study done by Oliver Pergams (U of Illinois) and Patricia Zaradic (Environmental Leadership Program, Pennsylvania), a decline in visitation at national parks corresponds to an increase in sedentary activities like playing video games, surfing the Internet and watching movies. They […]

Politics and Ethics

Did Murder Evolve?

February 3, 2008

Is it appropriate for scientists to speculate on the evolution of murder? Nature had no problem with it. They allowed Dan Jones, a freelance writer in Brighton, UK, to publish a lengthy article on how murder and warfare evolved. No other explanations for these scourges were mentioned except to dismiss them. Nature has apparently incorporated […]

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