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Creationist Wisdom #94: Christmas
The Sensuous Curmudgeon —
Authority: 555
WE present to you, dear reader, a very timely letter-to-the-editor titled Holiday season offers time for reflection , which appears in the Avalanche-Journal , the principal newspaper in Lubbock , the 11th largest city in Texas. We’ll copy most of today’s letter, omitting the writer’s name and city, adding ...6 hours ago -
A simple and accurate overview of Intelligent Design
4Simpsons Blog - Eternity Matters —
Authority: 467
Many critics of Intelligent Design (deliberately?) mischaracterize it no matter how many times they are corrected. Here is a good presentation of it by Douglas Axe . Living things contain within their genomes large amounts of functional information. The only cause known to be capable of generating large ...12 hours ago -
The River of Evolution
The Sensuous Curmudgeon —
Authority: 555
THE typical creationist has only the most infantile concept of evolution, so it’s not surprising to hear them criticizing the theory by claiming that “Darwin says” animals change from one species into another, yet this is never seen to happen, so Darwin was wrong. It’s amazingly easy — even for a ...19 hours ago -
Dueling Atheist Philosophers, Batman! Thomas Nagel Now Has an Atheist Ally: Philosopher Bradley Monton of the University of Colorado!
Prometheus Unbound —
Authority: 436
The United Front is breaking and it’s on! Stephen Meyer’s ID book has started to divide atheists who are also professional philosophers. First the (once) highly esteemed Thomas Nagel dared to break ranks from the New Atheists, calling, in the Times Literary Supplement, Meyer’s Signature in the Cell (2009) ...23 hours ago -
As Darwin Year ends, some seek to go “beyond Darwin”
FaithWorld —
Authority: 633
Pigeon bones display at Darwins former home, 12 Feb 2009/Tal Cohen As this Darwin Year 2009 draws to a close, I have to say a lot of the public debate it prompted came down to the sterile old clash between evolution and creationism. The issue of religion always hung in the air, with the loudest arguments coming ...1 day ago -
Atheist philosopher slammed for endorsing Meyer’s book on Intelligent Design
Thinking Matters Talk —
Authority: 467
Thomas Nagel’s recent endorsement of Stephen Meyer’s latest book, Signature in the Cell (2009), has generated a firestorm of debate. In the Times Literary Supplement, the atheist philosopher and professor at New York University, wrote : “Stephen C. Meyer’s Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for ...1 day ago -
Chemists Duel over Philosopher Thomas Nagel’s Plug for Stephen Meyer’s ID Book!
Prometheus Unbound —
Authority: 436
Philosopher Thomas Nagel’s endorsement of Stephen Meyer’s ID book has generated dueling letters to the Times Literary Supplement from two chemists. The exchange is quite informative. The first came from a British chemist, Stephen Fletcher, who scolded Nagel on December 4th, and the second came, on December 9th, ...1 day ago -
Discovery Institute: The Wedge Document, So What?
The Sensuous Curmudgeon —
Authority: 555
EVERYONE has heard of Wedge Document, the grand plan of the neo-theocrats at the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture (a/k/a the Discoveroids). Here’s a copy of it from the website of the National Center for Science Education: The Wedge Document . There’s also an informative article in ...1 day ago -
Probabilities and the Genesis of Life
Uncommon Descent —
Authority: 606
The important thing to keep in mind concerning probabilities and the origin of life is that proteins, and everything else in a living cell, are manufactured by machinery which is controlled by an abstract-representation digital coding system. Proteins not only don’t self-assemble, they cannot self-assemble, because ...1 day ago -
The Stupid-Driven Life — Part VI
The Sensuous Curmudgeon —
Authority: 555
THIS is the latest in our “Stupid Driven” series, in which we offer disconnected observations we’ve made while reporting on The Controversy between evolution and creationism. These are sometimes taken from our earlier articles, but all of them were inspired by reading and analyzing the “work” of ...2 days ago -
Stupid Creationist Arguments 7: TAG! You’re it
Lone Wolfs Den —
Authority: 114
The TAG (transcendental argument for the existence of God) attempts to prove the existence of God (yes, that god) by postulating that logic, reason and morality can not exist with out God.The argument is basically “where did that come from? Who decided that?”. The argument fails because it assumes that the ...2 days ago -
The Odds That End: Stephen Meyer’s Rebuttal Of The Chance Hypothesis
Uncommon Descent —
Authority: 606
The Andes mountains opened up on both sides of us as we drove on one July afternoon along a highway that links Quito, the capital of Ecuador, with the smaller town of Ambato almost three hours further south. The setting sun shone head-on upon two volcanic giants- Tungurahua and Cotopaxi with its snow covered peak just ...2 days ago -
Thank You For Calling
The Sensuous Curmudgeon —
Authority: 555
THANK you for calling The Sensuous Curmudgeon! Your call is very important to us. Please choose from one of the following options: To tell us that evolution is “just a theory,” press 1. To tell us there’s no evidence of transitional species, press 2. To tell us the odds against evolution prove that it’s ...2 days ago -
[Off Topic] TR on Peace
Uncommon Descent —
Authority: 606
From Teddy Roosevelt’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech: We must ever bear in mind that the great end in view is righteousness, justice as between man and man, nation and nation, the chance to lead our lives on a somewhat higher level, with a broader spirit of brotherly goodwill one for another. Peace is ...2 days ago -
Books of the Year 2009 (Times Literary Supplement Selects Intelligent Design Book as one of them)
Stupidica —
Authority: 176
Signature in the Cell Named One of Top Books of the Year by Times Literary Supplement Stephen Meyers Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design is being named one of the top books of 2009 in the prestigious Times Literary Supplement (TLS) annual "Books of the Year" issue. The selection was made ...3 days ago -
John Freshwater Update (11 Dec ‘09)
The Sensuous Curmudgeon —
Authority: 555
BACKGROUND: This is an administrative hearing to determine whether John Freshwater will be fired as an 8th-grade science teacher in Ohio. He’s accused of burning a student with a Tesla coil , teaching religion in his science class, and failing to follow the school district’s orders. Freshwater says the district ...3 days ago -
The End of Natural Selection
Uncommon Descent —
Authority: 606
Playing off the title of Dr. Dembski’s new book, I’m going to cite three articles that are summarized at PhysOrg.com just this past week. I don’t have access to any of them, but let’s just take a look at what these summaries report. I think it’s quite interesting. First, there is this article, DNA study ...3 days ago -
Creationist Wisdom #93: Nothing From Nothing
The Sensuous Curmudgeon —
Authority: 555
WE present to you, dear reader, a letter-to-the-editor titled Columnist, Evolutionists are wrong , which appears in the Carman Valley Leader , a tabloid newspaper in Carman, Manitoba . We’ll copy most of today’s letter, omitting the writer’s name and city, and adding our Curmudgeonly commentary between the ...3 days ago -
Creationism: Purity of Essence
The Sensuous Curmudgeon —
Authority: 555
Mandrake and Ripper HAVE you ever wondered why creationists are so oblivious to reason? Why they’re so amazingly blind to facts? Why they continue to insist on their peculiar version of reality? We attempted to explain the situation here: Debating Creationists: The Big Lie , but that didn’t go far enough. ...4 days ago -
Genie Scott on the History and Characteristics of Creationism
Exploring Our Matrix —
Authority: 594
The National Center for Science Education made this available on their YouTube channel .4 days ago
