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For Jerry Coyne a Hypothetical Choice: You May Knock on One and Only One Door
If you follow Coyne's blog Why Evolution Is True, you'll know he's currently in Poland on a visit with friends.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Physicists and engineers decide how to analyze evolution
A big story in the press today. Scientists – mechanical engineers and physicists, one working for Boeing with his office only a few miles from my home – show that the evolution of airplanes works the same way as the evolution of organisms: The evolution of airplanes A. Bejan, J. D. Charles and S. Lorente J. Appl. Phys. 116, 044901 (2014); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4886855 (fortunately this paper can be downloaded for free). They make allometric plots of...
Joe Felsenstein
http://evolution.gs.washington.edu/felsenstein.html
Categories: Pro-Science News
Contrails
Contrails, in the general direction of Denver International Airport, as seen from Boulder, Colorado, August, 2011. Jeff Mitton, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, in an article in the Boulder Daily Camera, reminds us that contrails reduce diurnal temperature fluctuations and may have a significant effect on climate....
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
The Universe Next Door with Tom Woodward: Jonathan Wells on the Icons of Evolution, pt. 2
Listen Now. On this episode of ID the Future, hear the second part of Tom Woodward's interview with biologist Jonathan Wells on The Universe Next Door. Dr. Wells continues to explain the icons of evolution and why much of...
Categories: Anti-Science News
The Universe Next Door with Tom Woodward: Jonathan Wells on the Icons of Evolution
Listen Now. On this episode of ID the Future, Jonathan Wells is on the Universe Next Door with Tom Woodward to talk about his popular book "Icons of Evolution." Dr. Wells discusses how Darwinism has failed to explain how...
Categories: Anti-Science News
'When Athens Met Jerusalem' With John Mark Reynolds
Listen Now. On this episode of ID the Future Logan Gage interviews CSC Fellow John Mark Reynolds, author of the book When Athens Met Jerusalem: An Introduction to Classical and Christian Thought. Listen in as Dr. Reynolds explains the...
Categories: Anti-Science News
Convergent Evolution Strikes Again: Orb-Weaver Spiders
Orb-weaver spiders are one of the most common types of spiders. They're the ones you find in your garden, building those beautiful big circular webs.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
New Book "Rescues" Alfred Russel Wallace -- by Refashioning Him in Darwin's Image
Meanwhile the very issue that divided the two founders of modern evolutionary theory -- the cognitive capacities of Homo sapiens -- remains unresolved by Darwinian mechanisms.
Michael Flannery
http://www.discovery.org/p/471
Categories: Anti-Science News
So, as George Johnson of the NY Times Says, Intelligent Design Is Just "Creationist Superstition," Is It?
Watch this video that's just been released, the latest in a series of conversations with Stephen Meyer about his book.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Is Natural Selection Like a Computer Algorithm?
Mixing metaphors between computers and evolution is bound to produce questionable results.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
How They'll Write About Intelligent Design Someday
When it comes to ID, science writer George Johnson in the New York Times has generally seemed to subscribe to the Great Equation.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Each Time Genomic "Junk" Turns Out to Be Functional, the Case for Intelligent Design Gets Stronger
William Dembski argued in No Free Lunch that intelligent design theory yields no false positives: the Design Filter he modeled doesn't allow them.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Paul Nelson at the Society for Developmental Biology
The title of Paul's poster was "The Target Problem in Characterizing Early Metazoan Developmental Sequences."
Jonathan Wells
http://www.discovery.org/p/41
Categories: Anti-Science News
An Open Letter to Kenneth Miller and PZ Myers
Everyone is looking forward to seeing your calculations. Please keep the rhetoric to a minimum.
Michael Behe
Categories: Anti-Science News
Self-Intelligent Design Proves Human Exceptionalism
Opponents of human exceptionalism never tire of inventing arguments for why human beings are entitled to no special moral standing.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
A Deep and Abiding Need for Neanderthals to Be Stupid. Why?
When Neanderthal man was first classified, he satisfied a felt need for a separate, intellectually inferior human species.
Denyse O'Leary
Categories: Anti-Science News
Setting the Record Straight: Stephen Meyer and "Junk" DNA
An Amazon reviewer faults Stephen Meyer's Signature in the Cell for not discussing the question of "junk" DNA. Actually, he does, in multiple places. Here's the lowdown.
Andrew McDiarmid
http://www.evolutionnews.org
Categories: Anti-Science News
War on Humans: How Would Legalizing Assisted Suicide Help the Downtrodden?
A South African anti-apartheid icon joins the debate on doctor-prescribed death. Et tu, Tutu?
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
The Edge of Evolution: Why Darwin's Mechanism Is Self-Limiting
As we've discussed extensively here over the past week, a recent paper confirms a key inference I made in 2007 in The Edge of Evolution.
Michael Behe
Categories: Anti-Science News
Polling climate around the world
A new report from Ipsos MORI includes data on public opinion about the causes of climate change from twenty nations — and the United States led the world in the rate of climate change denial, as assessed by answers to two questions.
Categories: Pro-Science News
