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Video: Stephen Meyer on How Charles Marshall, in Defending Darwinism, Was Forced to Violate a Key Scientific Tenet
Darwinism provides scientists with a filter for screening out inadmissible answers to questions about life's history. It thus creates a realm of forbidden science.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
National Academy of Sciences: Dobzhansky's "In the Light of Evolution" Mantra Is Not a Deduction, but a Premise
The NAS makes it clear that they choose Darwinism as an a priori framework in which all biological observations must be interpreted.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
From Sam Harris, Evangelizing Advocate of Scientific Atheism, Some Welcome Common Sense
Last we heard from Harris, he had contributed a chapter, "Science Must Destroy Religion," in a book full of atheist diatribes being taught at Ball State University.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Visualizing DNA: Two Fantastic Animations in One
First, what it takes for chromosomes to condense, and we mean really condense.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
A Pretty Sharp Edge: Reflecting on Michael Behe's Vindication
I am writing a post that shouldn't have to be written.
Ann Gauger
http://www.biologicinstitute.org/people
Categories: Anti-Science News
War on Humans: Forcing Doctors to Kill
The ACLU is looking to recruit the state of Washington, not content with its path-breaking on the way to legalized trade in marijuana, as a pioneer.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Good Grief. No, Airplanes Don't "Evolve" by Natural Law.
Reporters -- and scientists -- sometimes exhibit a woefully inadequate understanding of Darwinian concepts.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Has the Darwin-Lobbying NCSE Cut Its Religious Outreach Efforts?
This could make it harder to convince people that Darwinian evolution really does mix comfortably with religious belief.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
Walter Gehring dies
The eminent biologist Walter Gehring died on May 29, 2014, at the age of 75, according to the Biozentrum at the University of Basel.
Categories: Pro-Science News
End to the impasse in sight?
A panel approved a proposed revision to the section on evolution in South Carolina's new state science standards, according to The State (July 29, 2014). If the revision is approved by the state board of education and the Education Oversight Committee, it will end the impasse over South Carolina's state science standards that began with the EOC's refusal in December 2013 to accept a standard covering evolution.
Categories: Pro-Science News
NCSE's next webinar for activists
NCSE is pleased to announce the next of a new series of on-line workshops aimed at broadening and deepening the networks that make our work possible. The next workshop focuses on on-line petitions as a tool in science education advocacy, with advice about how to write, promote, and use such petitions.
Categories: Pro-Science News
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
