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mutations of mortality (Free subscription) | yesterday
I have been asked to post this letter on my blog. It was a response to an article by Andrew Copson in the Guardian on Intelligent Design. I was happy to add my signature to it. Copson’s Ignorance of Intelligent Design Andrew Copson ('A Birthday Present for Darwin', 9th November) describes the proposal to teach evolution in primary schools as an ‘important defence against the ignorance of...
Uncommon Descent (Free subscription) | yesterday
There is a strange belief abroad that critics of Darwinism are found chiefly among right-wing, ultra-conservative reactionaries and their cadre of uneducated backwoods religious fundamentalists for whom, according to Philip Kitcher, Darwin “serves evangelical Christians as the bogeyman.”1 Keith M. Parsons, writing for Eugenie Scott’s National Center for Science Education (largely...
Post-Darwinist (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
For Uncommon Descent Question 12 : Can Darwinism beat the odds', we have declared a winner, and it is Philip W at 11 . Philip W must provide me with a valid postal address* via oleary@sympatico.ca, in order to receive the prize, a free copy of the Privileged Planet DVD. Philip W tells me that he is a pilot, and I liked his analysis of issues around flight: Darwinian evolution can not possibly explain...
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | yesterday
by Kim Trobee, editor, CitizenLink.com With the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species fast approaching, Dr. Meyer explains the holes in the theory of evolution and the magnificent ode to intelligent design. Dr. Stephen Meyer is director and senior fellow of the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute. After completing undergraduate [...]
Science, Reason and Critical Thinking (Free subscription) | yesterday
I’ve been thoroughly enjoying Dawkins latest book, The Greatest Show On Earth , far superior to the commercially successful God Delusion . Anyhoo, the purpose of this post is not to attempt to review the book, just to pass comment on the final two chapters that I polished off last night. Throughout the book Dawkins presents an arsenal of evidence, all of which gracefully converges to support...
Evolving Thoughts (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
I know, this is getting tedious, but at least I haven’t published as many books as Neil Levy… Ashgate have put up a page announcing an anthology I edited on Intelligent Design and Religion as a Natural Phenomenon. It’s due in August next year. Posted in Book, Creationism and Intelligent Design, Religion [...]
Quantum Non-Linearity (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
This post on UD publicizes a new book called “Should Christians Embrace Evolution” . The post says: Believers in a God-guided Darwinism are preaching that Darwinism is a fact and that the Bible can be reconciled with it. This new book comprehensively refutes both ideas. Far from necessary, theistic evolution is both bad theology and bad science. Firstly: It is impossible for evolution to...
Jumping in Pools (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Little Green Footballs has attacked various Conservative politicians, websites, bloggers, columnists, and viewpoints over the past several years, as the once beloved blog of the Conservative movement, is now among one of the worst devalued blogs on the Internet. Well, Charles Johnson (the devalued blogger of the devalued blog) is now attacking Rush Limbaugh. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/35178_Rush_Limbaugh_and_Alex_Jones...
Page 3.14 (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The pitched battle between evolutionary theory and Intelligent Design has become one of the signature conflicts of the decade. On Pharyngula, PZ Myers picks up the pieces after his debate with Jerry Bergman on whether ID should be taught in schools. Unambiguously he writes, "creationists are not the heralds of a coming paradigm shift; they are the rotting detritus of the old regime of unreason."...
Evolution List (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Many people have recently heard about how creationist and televangelist Ray Comfort has been planning to distribute 170,000 copies of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species at the 100 top colleges and universities in America . Well, the appointed day (19 November) for Ray's distribution of the Origin came and went, but apparently no creationists showed up at Cornell to pass out Ray's "abridged"...
Evolution List (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
It has been almost exactly a century and a half since Darwin's Origin of Species was first published, and half a century since the conference at the University of Chicago where the "triumph" of the "modern evolutionary synthesis" was celebrated. So, isn't it a little odd that some well-respected scientists and historians of science are proclaiming in this celebratory year that the...
The Lay Scientist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Ray can get away with a lot of nonsense in his foreword, assuming it's only read by people who support his position. However, thanks to the NCSE and other bloggers, hopefully the scientific and educational communities will sit up and take notice of the blatant distortions and misrepresentations going on. But when he's in dialogue with a proper scientist, then there's much less room to maneuver. Especially...
Evolution List (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
There will be a free public showing of The Darwinian Revolution video series at 4 PM on Tuesday 24 November 2009 in the large classroom (room 3330) of the Tatkon Center in Balch Hall. This presentation will take place on the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species , and is part of Cornell's celebration of the Darwin Bicentennial. The host of the video series, Cornell...
Out of My Gord (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Originally published October 22nd in MediaPost's Search Insider . This is Part Two of my reading list. Last week, I shared 11 titles that explore the intersection between marketing, psychology and neurology. In retrospect, though, I think I approached this backwards. While the titles I discussed are all interesting (and fairly easy reads), they are somewhat dependent on a fundamental understanding...
The Lay Scientist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Quick straw poll. You're going to bring out a new edition of "On The Origin of Species", but to differentiate it from all the other editions, and to give some background to the sociopolitical ramifications of the theories of natural selection & shared descent, it is decided to have a new foreword by a leading scholar in the field. So - who do you pick? <!--break--> a) Ken Miller...
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