In Recent Scifi, Intelligent Design Is Truth [Intelligent Design] (22)
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A new crop of science fiction novels focus on what it would mean if Intelligent Design turned out to be the truth. Jay Lake's Escapement is a perfect example, as is Walter Jon Williams' Implied Spaces — both are novels about people in clockwork worlds designed by some kind of higher power associated with spiritual realms. Other recent tales, such as Charles Stross' Saturn's Children and Iain M. Banks' Matter, flirt with the idea of ...
Why Print Is Not Dead, Unintentionally Intelligent Design Edition [Journalismism] (4)
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The story about a Georgia school's struggle to teach evolution in Jesusland may be the most emailed story on the Times website right now, but you had to read it on paper to get the full experience. (Well, this time you can just click for our scan.)
Methodist Advocates Evolution (1)
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Holy Cow! Some time, the timing of these things are uncanny.I had just finished writing (or maybe it is more accurately described as "ranting") against a newspaper article that argued that more pastors and ministers should be teaching "science" as part of religious studies. Then along comes this news article of someone within the United Methodist Church to explicitly accept evolution and to declare that it isn't in conflict the the church's teachings.One of Kuelling’s ...
Analysis of a Phony Creationist Fossil (1)
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Following up on that ridiculous “fossil” recently announced by a creationist group, that purports to show a human footprint partially overlapped by a dinosaur’s, Glen Kuban has a great piece that goes into detail on the ludicrous claims of Alvis Delk and the Creation Evidence Museum: The Delk Print. (“Alvis Delk” is really a cool name, though. Sounds like a Coen Brothers character.) Although both scientific and public opinion seems to be running against the ...
Stealth Creationist Play Shot Down in California (1)
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Yet another stealth creationist play was shot down by the courts yesterday in California. The Association of Christian Schools International, Calvary Chapel Christian School, and parents attending the Chapel School filed suit against the University of California, after UC ruled that several courses taught by the Christian schools did not meet admission requirements. The reason for UC’s decision? You guessed it. The courses taught by these schools were full of creationist and anti-science rubbish. The ...
The Alvis Delk Cretaceous Fakeprint (1)
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Remember the Alvis Delk Cretaceous Footprint we covered recently? That “fossil” discovered by an “amateur archaeologist” in Texas, showing a dinosaur footprint overlapping a human one, thereby proving that the Earth is only 6,000 years old? I hope you’re sitting down. Because that “fossil” is an obvious fake: Stones and Bones: Carl Baugh’s latest Fake. (What? You already knew that?)
Penn and Teller Take on Creationism (2)
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It’s our favorite libertarian-ish anti-idiotarian magicians, with a whole episode of Bullsh*t! devoted to ... yes ... creationism and its repackaged descendant, “intelligent design.” (Screams and pandemonium ensue.) Featuring footage from the Creation Museum, and interviews with some people whose names are often invoked during the LGF Evolution Wars, including Duane Gish of the Institute for Creation Research. The 3-part show carries a mild language warning; if you’ve ever seen Penn and Teller, you know ...
Hitchens: The Blind Salamander (1)
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Christopher Hitchens (yes, everyone knows he’s an unabashed atheist) makes an excellent point about a certain species of cave-dwelling salamander, related to a topic that keeps showing up in The LGF Creationism Cage Match—the evolution of the eye: How blind salamanders make nonsense of creationists’ claims. Or in this case, the devolution of the eye, to adapt to an environment where vision is unnecessary for—even detrimental to—survival. It is extremely seldom that one has the ...
How to Be an Intellectually Fulfilled Atheist — Or Not (1)
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Coming this October… Book description (pre-order for $9.60 at Amazon): “Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin,” writes Richard Dawkins, “Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.” This little book shows that atheism must seek intellectual fulfillment elsewhere by decisively demonstrating the need for intelligence in explaining life’s origin. This is the best overview of why traditional origin-of-life research has crashed and burned and why intelligent design is necessary to ...
Science journalist trashing the Darwin industry? … I have a twin somewhere? (1)
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Is Susan Mazur writing a book that exposes the Darwin industry instead of protecting it? Her e-book title is “Altenberg 16: An Exposé Of The Evolution Industry Sunday, 6 July 2008, 12:32 pm Article: Suzan Mazur <orward Introduction <<ronology Evolution Tribes 1 The Altenberg 16 2 Altenberg! The Woodstock of Evolution? 3 Jerry Fodor and Stan Salthe Open the Evo Box 4 Theory of Form to Center Stage 5 The Two Stus [ and further ...
Roy Spencer on Intelligent Design (1)
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Roy Spencer is a global warming skeptic and the author of the hypothesis that the water cycle acts as the earth’s thermostat. In a previous article I attributed that hypothesis to “the father of climatology” and that was incorrect. The father of climatology is Reid Bryson. He is a global warming skeptic though. Roy Spencer is just as qualified (if not moreso) as Bryson. From wiki: Roy W. Spencer is a principal research scientist for ...
Muslim Creationism on the Rise in Europe (1)
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The New Humanist has an article on the Islamic creationist group led by Turkish kook Harun Yahya (nee Adnan Oktar), and their mysteriously well-funded efforts to promote the anti-science agenda in Europe: Western front. Examples cited of a growing creationist influence ranged from subtle downgrading of evolution in science education to outright attacks on the validity of Darwinism and the personality of Darwin himself. In Greece, the report found, evolution education was relegated to the ...
Radical Muslim Funding US Creationist Groups? (1)
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Here’s an interesting article with lots of detail on the Turkish radical Islamic creationist Harun Yahya (real name: Adnan Oktar), who has joined forces with US creationist groups like the Institute for Creation Research, to promote their Dark Ages anti-science agenda around the world: Muslim creationist preaches Islam and awaits Christ. ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Harun Yahya is one of the most widely distributed authors in the Muslim world. He may also be among the most ...
