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Haeckel Given Soft Gloves in Nature

February 8, 2007

How should a scientist’s career be evaluated if he was a known fraud? How also if he promoted views that fanned the flames of racism and genocide? Here’s what Philip Ball said about Ernst Haeckel in Nature:1 Reckoned to have been instrumental to the introduction of darwinism to Germany, Haeckel has also inspired generations of […]

Intelligent Design

Dodo Prey Fights Back

February 7, 2007

Irked at falsehoods promulgated by Randy Olsen’s film Flock of Dodos, the intelligent design (ID) think tank Discovery Institute (DI) is fighting back. The film presents a viewpoint that what ID lacks in science it makes up for in public relations. The DI is convinced the reverse is true. In an attempt to rebut what […]

Media

Skeptics Society Apology Illustrates Christian Virtue

January 21, 2007

Some evolutionists leaped onto a press release from a group named PEER last December that claimed national park rangers at Grand Canyon were obeying some new policy under pressure from the Bush administration that did not allow them to claim the canyon was millions of years old (see 01/11/2007, bullet 2). This was supposedly related […]

Bible and Theology

Evolutionist Lost Faith Over Flawed Geology Lesson

January 12, 2007

A college student’s Biblical faith could not survive a geology lesson that seemed to offer convincing proof that the earth was older than Genesis indicated.

Education

Evolutionists Fret Over Persistent Creationism

January 11, 2007

Fretting and fuming over the persistence of creationism (and belief in God, which usually accompanies it), evolutionists are trying to come up with ways to combat it. This presupposes that they are not listening to the arguments of the creationists. Ambassadors for Darwin: In an editorial in Science Jan. 12, editor Alan Leshner encouraged scientists […]

Politics and Ethics

Non-Embryonic Stem Cells Found in Amniotic Fluid

January 9, 2007

A vast source of possibly pluripotent stem cells without ethical problems has been discovered in amniotic fluid by scientists at Wake Forest University. Ronald Green of Dartmouth is hoping the science pans out, according to National Geographic News. He said, “We are very much in need of ‘ethically universal’ lines [of stem cells] that anyone […]

Education

Is Legal Hammerlocking the Way to Win a Scientific Controversy?

January 6, 2007

The cartoon stereotype of a scientist as an unbiased truth-seeking nerd wearing a white lab coat is hard to reconcile with some recent events. Not that the cartoon stereotype was ever realistic, but the row over Darwinism vs Intelligent Design (ID) shows just how biased and unethical certain people and organizations can behave in support […]

Bible and Theology

Article: What Hath Galileo Wrought?

January 4, 2007

For the PhysicsWeb site, philosopher and historian Robert B. Crease (State U of NY at Stony Brook) wrote a “Critical Point” article called “The Book of Nature.” He discusses Galileo’s contention that there is a Book of Nature separate from the Book of Scripture that can be investigated on its own through the language of […]

Bible and Theology

SETI: A Systematic Theology

January 4, 2007

Thick books on systematic theology usually include sections about creation, anthropology, and eschatology. Those sections are also present in condensed form in an article by Adrian Brown of the SETI Institute at Space.com. As for origins, Darwinian materialism was implicit passim and needed no elaboration. As for anthropology, he said man is like a god, […]

Dating Methods

Precambrian Pods Promoted to Pleistocene (!)

January 3, 2007

The bulletin of the Geological Society of America started 2007 with a bang. (Geeks sometimes refer to the exclamation point as a “bang”.) It’s not often one sees an exclamation point in the title of a scientific paper, but the bang in one by Donald R. Lowe (Stanford) and Gary R. Byerly (Louisiana State)1 conveys […]

Genetics

In Science and Politics, Expect the Unexpected

December 29, 2006

Two findings reported this month illustrate how science changes. Paradigms and policies can have their scientific underpinnings yanked out from under them, causing both consternation and opportunities for new ways of thinking. Bring back the acid rain: Pick your poison: acid rain or global warming. Acid rain was the bogeyman of the 1980s, leading to […]

Bible and Theology

Danes Found the Keys to Happiness

December 24, 2006

According to the British Medical Journal, reported EurekAlert, British scientists wanted to find out what makes the Danish so darn happy. “Their hypotheses range from the unlikely (hair colour, genes, food and language) to the more plausible, such as family life, health and a prosperous economy.” Their conclusion? Danes are happier than other Europeans because […]

Health

Are Embryonic Stem Cells a Stepping Stone to Eugenics?

December 16, 2006

In Paris, according to Science Dec. 8, “One cherished French institution has attacked another in a bruising battle over embryonic stem cell research.” The cause of the “Jeremiad” as Science dubbed it, was a Catholic Archbishop’s statement to a French health institute that any research “instrumentalizes the embryo or borders on eugenics.” The “News of […]

Education

Judge Jones Took Credit for ACLU Writings

December 12, 2006

Judge John E. Jones has become somewhat of a celebrity of late, traveling and speaking about his judgment against the Dover, Pennsylvania School Board on December 20, 2005 (see 12/23/2005). He has stated that he felt his opinion should set forth the case once for all that intelligent design is not science but religion in […]

Bible and Theology

Experiment: Take a Darwinist to Church

December 11, 2006

“Go to church and breathe easier,” announced an unusual entry on EurekAlert. A study at Temple University found a positive correlation between religious activity and lung function. They said that “religious activity is emerging as a potential health promoting factor, especially among the elderly.” In addition, “going to church provides social contact and emotional support, […]

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