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Historian Reveals Isaac Newton as Biblical Economist

September 11, 2006

The image of Isaac Newton as pure mathematician and physicist ignores a big part of his persona, said Georgia Tech Professor Kenneth Knoespel in a press release reported by EurekAlert. Living in an era when alchemy was still considered a serious subject for natural philosophers, Newton viewed alchemical research as part of his Biblical vision […]

Politics and Ethics

Nature Backpedals Over Stem-Cell Hype

September 10, 2006

After Nature printed an upbeat press release last month that stem cells could be extracted without killing an embryo (see 08/25/2006), critics found that the experiment did indeed kill the embryos. Also, it turns out none of the stem cell lines survived, and that more than one cell had been extracted from the embryos, contrary […]

Education

Evolution Back on Federal Funding List

September 1, 2006

Boy, that was a close call. Evolution research almost got dropped from federal funding. Turns out it was an accidental oversight. Science Daily reported that the oversight “sparked heated protests from academics and evolution supporters” who “expressed fears that the omission might have been part of an attack on Darwinian evolution by religious groups.” […]

Media

Rock Video Illustrates Nihilism of Evolution

August 31, 2006

Senseless sex. Mass death. Religious hypocrisy. Moral equivalence. Impersonality. Irresponsibility. Male aggression, abduction and murder. Glorification of lust. Book burning. Assembly-line babies. Dehumanization. Terrorism. Holocaust. Armageddon. It’s all illustrated with raw intensity in the Pearl Jam rock video, Do the Evolution, available on YouTube.com.1 Evolution wipes out humanity, without remorse, in just 3:53 minutes. Watch […]

Health

Embryonic Stem Cells No Longer Needed?

August 25, 2006

Two announcements this week may make harvesting embryonic stem cells obsolete. First, it’s not necessary to kill an embryo to get a stem cell, reported Associated Press (see Fox News) and Live Science. While this does not solve all the ethical problems, a White House spokeswoman called it “encouraging to see scientists at least making […]

Media

Film Under Fire That Links Darwin to Hitler

August 23, 2006

Even before being aired, the documentary Darwin’s Deadly Legacy from Coral Ridge Ministries is taking heat, reported World Net Daily. The criticisms, coming from Darwinists on Pharyngula and from the Anti-Defamation League, are two-fold: (1) that it trivializes the Holocaust, because “Hitler did not need Darwin to devise his heinous plan to exterminate the Jewish […]

Education

Darwinists Whack I.D. with Reckless Abandon

August 21, 2006

For professionals assumed to be logical, factual, and devoted to reason, scientists and journalists can get pretty emotional, depending on the subject. One such subject that really rankles some of them is intelligent design. Here are some recent salvos from the war of the words: Hotz shots: From the LA Times, Robert Lee Hotz wrote, […]

Politics and Ethics

Nature Praises Iran President, Criticizes Religious West

August 16, 2006

The lead Editorial in Nature this week,1 “Revival in Iran,” had mostly praise for the repressive regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran for his alleged support of “science”: Perhaps the rise of science relates to the importance that Iran’s government attaches to the development of nuclear technology. Many regard Iran’s interest in these technologies with […]

Bible and Theology

Crossing the Line for Looks That Could Kill

August 13, 2006

President Bush may have vetoed one stem-cell bill for moral reasons (see Brad Harrub’s report on Apologetics Press), but in other countries where Judeo-Christian values are less prevalent, morality seems a low hurdle in the race to exploit biological resources that promise health, youth, beauty – and money. With embryonic stem cell research […]

Bible and Theology

National Crisis: USA Ranks Nearly Last in Evolution Belief!

August 11, 2006

Eugenie Scott and colleagues at the National Center for Science Education presented findings of a survey on acceptance of evolution, and found that the USA trails far behind European countries – second from last only to Turkey. In 20 years, acceptance of evolution dropped from 45 to 40 percent, but firm rejection of evolution also […]

Darwin and Evolution

Kansas Evolution Battle Heats Up Again

August 1, 2006

Update 08/02/2006: According to a news report on Live Science, conservatives have lost their majority in the primary election for seats on the state school board. Details are reported by the Lawrence Journal-World. The winners are gloating that this is a great day for Kansas, said Science Now, but ended by noting that the issue […]

Politics and Ethics

Journals Consistently Tout Embryonic Stem Cells, Criticize Bush

July 31, 2006

This is not news. It just bears repeating that the Big Science journals continue to push embryonic stem cell research and criticize Republicans. The latest case in point was President Bush’s veto of the stem cell bill July 19, that led to a flurry of articles and editorials in the leading British and American science […]

Education

Education & Political News

July 22, 2006

What’s been happening in school boards about evolution and intelligent design? Here are some recent stories about politicians, reporters and ordinary citizens: Kansas Grass Roots: Candidates vying for school board seats in Liberal, Kansas squared off over the evolution issue: see Hutchinson News. Ohio Rematch: Despite an earlier loss, Darwin critics in Ohio are hoping […]

Intelligent Design

How Atheistic Is Darwinism?

July 12, 2006

Many evolutionary biologists argue that the theory of evolution is religiously neutral. Why then, does Nature, arguably the most widely read pro-evolution journal in the world, seem to go out of its way to glorify atheism and present religion as an evolutionary artifact? Clearly, whatever evolved as an adaptation by an unguided process cannot have […]

Politics and Ethics

Science Attacked by Mother Nature of the Spiritual Left

July 10, 2006

“Think only the religious right is anti-science? How about the spiritual left?” asks Lee M. Silver in The Scientist. His article details the holistic thinking invading much of popular culture and university student minds, that pictures nature as a benevolent super-organism (with usually feminine characteristics). The article is an excerpt from his book […]

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