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Highlights from Biblical Archaeology News

February 9, 2007

As an intelligent-design science, archaeology continues to interpret the actions of human intelligence from the observation of physical artifacts. Here are some recent stories bearing on Bible history and archaeology. Battle of the Ages: Science had a special section on Jerusalem archaeology in the Feb 2 issue. Andrew Lawler1 critiqued the spectacular claim that the […]

Media

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Education

A Tale of Two Videos: Advocacy and Censorship

December 8, 2006

A teacher gets a free video on science, and likes it. She thinks it fits in with the lesson plan and curriculum guidelines. Should she be allowed to show parts of it in the classroom? At what point should the government step in and say the material is inappropriate, or even ban it outright, if […]

Health

How Stem Cell Reporting Can Blur Ethics

December 2, 2006

“The potential of stem-cell technologies to revolutionize medical care is causing great excitement among biologists and the general public,” Nature reported Nov 30.1 “ Recent studies on embryonic and adult stem cells, coupled with advances in our understanding of how they can be coaxed into forming particular cell types and tissues, have improved the prospects […]

Politics and Ethics

Evolutionary Ethics Teeters on Brave New World

November 29, 2006

What happens when science pursues whatever it can do, unfettered by moral standards? Three recent news stories should cause all futurists to ponder the ramifications: A BBC News story this month asked, “UK scientists are seeking permission to place human nuclei into animal eggs in a bid to create stem cell lines. Why do researchers […]

Education

Nature Interviews German Creationist; Media Notes Rise of Anti-Darwinism

November 27, 2006

Following a news report entitled, “Anti-evolutionists raise their profile in Europe,”1 Nature printed a short interview with one of them:2 Peter Korevaar is head of the physics and cosmology working group of Germany’s Studiengemeinschaft Wort und Wissen, one of the largest creationist groups in Europe. He holds a PhD in astrophysics and now works at […]

Politics and Ethics

Anti-Religious Sentiment Increases in Intensity

November 25, 2006

The two poles could hardly be farther apart. In the East, a hundred million radical Muslims swear death to all Americans and Jews and work themselves into frenzies of jihad for the worldwide triumph of Islam. In the West, radical atheists are determined to eradicate religion from the Earth. Somewhere in between, millions of Christians […]

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