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Hollywood Film to Expose Darwin Dogma

August 22, 2007

Darwin is going to get a surprise on his birthday next year. Ben Stein is releasing a film on Feb. 12, 2008, entitled “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.” The gift may not be what Darwin wants. The press release subtitle asks, “Whatever happened to free speech?” Apparently Premise Media decided to document the trend among Darwinists […]

Intelligent Design

Science Journals Make Dogmatic Atheist Statements

August 8, 2007

Science is supposed to be restricted to the physical and observable world, but the major journals do not hesitate to state ardent, dogmatic opinions about the non-existence of God. Often they assert without debate that belief in God is an artifact of human evolution. Here are some recent examples: Tinker Bell, not Jehovah: Georg Striedter […]

Education

The War of the Museums

July 13, 2007

Some evolutionists have become very alarmed at the opening of the new Creation Museum in Kentucky (05/26/2007). They are so alarmed, in fact, that they are using pro-Darwin museums to counter-attack. Scientific American published a lengthy article on the war of the museums. Elisabeth Landau quickly used terms to label creationism as pseudoscience: […]

Amazing Facts

Mother-of-Pearl Inspires Materials Science

July 5, 2007

It’s not only beautiful, it’s strong. EurekAlert described how scientists are intrigued by mother-of-pearl, also called nacre, because of its strength: you can drive a truck over it and it will not break. It is 3,000 times more resistant to fracture than the aragonite from which the oyster makes it. 95% of it self-assembles in […]

Amazing Facts

Our Complex Brains: Lessons from Phrenology

June 25, 2007

This is your brain on science: it is too complex for simplistic diagrams. Back in the 19th century, the “science” of phrenology was in full swing. Phrenologists divided the brain into more than two dozen regions of “mental faculties” that controlled such things as instincts for eating and sex, sensation of color, language ability, and […]

Education

Council of Europe Officially Condemns Creationism and I.D.

June 22, 2007

A lengthy and strident policy document was issued by the Council of Europe denouncing creationism. The summary statement makes it clear there is no compromise possible, because “religious fundamentalists” are behind it, and that creationism and intelligent design must be firmly and unequivocally opposed. Evolution, by contrast, is given supreme status as the explanation for […]

Genetics

Genome Complexity Unveiled: No Junk, Only Function

June 15, 2007

Any remaining doubts that the idea of “junk DNA” has itself been junked should vanish under the latest findings about genome complexity. A number of recent news stories have revealed astonishing levels of regulation and organization in the non-coding regions of DNA. It turns out that genes are not the only interesting things in the […]

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Origin of Life Made Simple: Stochastic Innovation Answers I.D.

June 8, 2007

A press release from UC San Francisco teases, Before life emerged on earth, either a primitive kind of metabolism or an RNA-like duplicating machinery must have set the stage – so experts believe. But what preceded these pre-life steps? A pair of UCSF scientists has developed a model explaining how simple chemical and […]

Amazing Facts

Molecular Motors Move You

May 30, 2007

The realization that cells are filled with molecules that move like machines fascinates many people. Students who grew up thinking of chemistry as bouncing molecules that did little more than link up and separate have a whole new paradigm to consider: molecules that walk, fold and unfold, spin and operate like ratchets, robots, wrenches and […]

Biomimetics

Stupid Evolution Quote of the Week: Design by Darwin

May 24, 2007

Can Darwin get credit for intelligently-planned research? Apparently John Chaput thinks so. A press release from the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University states this: Nature, through the trial and error of evolution, has discovered a vast diversity of life from what can only presumed to have been a primordial pool of building blocks. Inspired […]

Dumb Ideas

Stupid Evolution Quote of the Week: Design without a Designer

May 10, 2007

Apparently Francisco Ayala (UC Irvine) thinks that just stating something dogmatically is enough to end all discussion. The scope of his paper in PNAS is grandiose and sweeping, enough to keep philosophers and theologians from around the world busy for years, but Ayala just put out his opinions without any hint of dispute, and stamped […]

Amazing Facts

More Optical Design in Eye Retina Than Seen Before

May 2, 2007

For decades, evolutionists have used the vertebrate retina as an example of poor design (dysteleology). They have mocked how any designer could have been so unintelligent as to get the wiring backwards – with the photoreceptors behind a jumble of light-scattering cells. Creationists have countered that despite the arrangement, it works well.1 Now, they may […]

Dumb Ideas

Can the Interior Design Itself?

March 26, 2007

Calling all interior designers: has Darwinism rendered you superfluous? J. Scott Turner thinks so. He wrote a book called The Tinkerer’s Accomplice: How Design Emerges from Life Itself (Harvard, 2007). It was reviewed by Claus Wedekind in last week’s Nature with the title, “The interior designer.” This does not imply that interiors need an exterior […]

Education

Free Speech? Not When Darwin Is at Stake

March 25, 2007

Radicals get away with saying or doing almost anything on campuses these days. There’s one “radical” view, however, that even though believed by a majority of Americans, is sure to be met with outrage: creationism. It doesn’t even have to be creationism. Just to suggest that Darwin and his views might not be infallible is […]

Cosmology

Deconstructing Darwinese: Delighting in Ignorance

March 8, 2007

When is ignorance a good thing? When is confidence in one’s answers a bad thing? One science writer expressed his desire for mystery over explanation – as long as the mysterious allowed room for lucky breaks without design. Science writer Ben Shaberman got to share his views on the last page of the […]

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