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So Explaining the Cambrian Explosion Is All About the Oxygen, Is It?
A news article at Nature, "Oxygen fluctuations stalled life on Earth," is remarkable for skirting the main issue, the primary enigma.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Wyoming reacts to the Climate Bill of Rights
The Climate Science Students Bill of Rights, which articulates the principle that all students deserve the best climate science education available as part of a 21st-century science education, was widely discussed in Wyoming.
Categories: Pro-Science News
Heartland and Discovery Institutes - Not So Strange Bedfellows
Because of the cognitive dissonance required to buy into pseudoscientific beliefs, it’s not surprising when an adherent of one pseudoscience is sucked into believing another one. For example, there is considerable overlap between advocates of 9/11 Truth beliefs and advocates of anti-Semitic causes, or between young-earth creationists and climate change deniers. The Discovery Institute has been engaging in climate-change denial for some time (see here and here, for example), so it’s really not surprising...
Dave Thomas
http://www.nmsr.org
Categories: Pro-Science News
The Making of a Scientific Mind: Dr. Dominic Halsmer
Listen Now. On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Dominic Halsmer, Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at Oral Roberts University, shares how he became fascinated by science and engineering. Great pedagogy involves making education fun,...
Categories: Anti-Science News
Why Scientific Fraud Matters
Science, the tradition of empirical investigation of nature, is indeed grand and awesome.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
What the Evolution Debate, and the Debate over Assisted Suicide, Have in Common
The alternatives are despair and death, or hope and life.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Gliese 581g: A Black Eye for Believers in Habitable Earth-like Exoplanets
NASA released an image, an "artist's conception," that made Gliese 581g look like quite the garden spot.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Postcard from Edinburgh: Flannery on David Hume, Alfred Russel Wallace, C.S. Lewis, & More
"Hume's argument against miracles was convincingly dismantled in a critique by Alfred Russel Wallace."
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Understanding creationism, VII: An insider's guide by a former young-Earth creationist
By David MacMillan. 7. The religion of evolution. The final set of creationist misconceptions about evolution surrounds its supposed religious, moral, and ethical implications. These objections prove difficult to address, simply because they have little or no objective basis and are almost purely philosophical or religious. This section will concentrate mostly on explaining the relationships and connections between these arguments, as systematically refuting them would delve deep into philosophy and theology and is far beyond...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Michael Behe: The Limit in the Evolution of Proteins
Listen Now. On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin sits down with Dr. Michael Behe to talk about a recent study that strongly confirms that severe problems face even relatively minor Darwinian evolution of proteins. Listen in...
Categories: Anti-Science News
For Critics of Intelligent Design, There's No Hiding Behind Claims of "Peer Review" Anymore
If scientific peer review were really the "gold standard," it wouldn't be this badly tarnished.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Give Me That Old-Time Pareidolia
Seeing faces that aren't there is supposed to be a by-product of the evolutionary need to recognize real faces, distinguishing friends from enemies.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
A Rock Star of the Intelligent-Design Movement: Hear Dembski in Seattle on July 16; at the University of Chicago on August 13
Join us for either event or both, but don't forget to pre-order your copy of Being as Communion, when you can still take advantage of the steep 34% discount!
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Eugene Goostman Is a Fraud
You can't see him, talk to him on the phone, or interact with him except by texting messages to him.
Erik J. Larson
Categories: Anti-Science News
Imagine How It Happened! "Evolution Presents" the Ribosome, "Nature's Masterpiece"
Adding complex modules to a complex machine does not make it evolutionary.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Climate Change Bill of Rights launched
NCSE is pleased to announce the launch of the Climate Science Students Bill of Rights, which articulates the principle that all students deserve the best climate science education available as part of a 21st-century science education.
Categories: Pro-Science News
Presbyterian Church refuses to endorse Evolution Weekend
Michael Zimmerman reports today in the Huffington Post that the Presbyterian Church (USA) has declined to endorse the Clergy Letter Project and declare the second Sunday in February to be Evolution Sunday. Specifically, Reverend John Shuck, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Elizabethton, Tennessee, and his congregation are longtime supporters of the Clergy Letter, and Reverend Shuck proposed that the General Assembly of the church vote to support Evolution Sunday. A subcommittee voted the...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Opposable thumb
Photograph by Helena Insko. Opposable thumb. Ms. Insko submits this photograph of a fully opposable thumb as evidence of evolution and writes, “My mom and I have been voting in the photo contest as long as I can remember (I’m 10). When my mom told me the theme was how we know evolution is correct, this is my answer (and my hand).”...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Samuel Varg interviews Kenneth Miller
While searching for the source of this cartoon, I ran across the website of Samuel Varg, a Swedish magician and skeptic. Mr. Varg has posted an interview with Kenneth Miller on YouTube and promises interviews with Candida Moss and John Safran. Mr. Varg and his colleague Anders Hesselbom were unusually well prepared. Professor Miller, in turn, was an excellent spokesperson for theistic evolution, though I had to take issue with his claim that the universe...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Reviewing Cosmos: Evidence or Evangelism?
Listen Now. On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin continues his review of the TV series Cosmos. Listen in as Luskin discusses how Cosmos approaches the topic of evolution, and how the show, while admitting the past...
Categories: Anti-Science News
