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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
Postcard from Edinburgh: A Towering Likeness of James Clerk Maxwell
"What is less known is that Maxwell believed strongly in nature's design."
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Yale Law School Professor Says Evolution Doubts Cannot Be Attributed to Ignorance
"There are many ways to assess the quality of instruction that U.S. students receive in science. But what fraction of them say they 'believe' in evolution is not one of them."
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Precursors and Artifacts: Stephen Meyer Replies to Paleontologist Donald Prothero on Darwin's Doubt
One criticism you certainly cannot make of paleontologist and ID critic Donald Prothero is that he doesn't give us enough material to work with.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Animals Equivalent to Humans in NYT -- Again
"The term 'animal' is simply an excuse not to look at something."
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
In Early Reviews, Catching a Glimpse of "War on Humans" Theme in Upcoming Planet of the Apes Film
The series has always specialized in melancholy reflections on issues of the day, going back to the 1968 opener with its shocking climax.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
New York Times: When Politics Gets in the Way of Science
We continually see unscientific assertions among the Times's own writers about a simple matter easily discerned from any embryology textbook.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
Neanderthal Man: The Long-Lost Relative Turns Up Again, This Time with Documents
Obviously, each new find will change the picture of Neanderthal communities a bit, but there is no consistent evidence for them as an "other species."
Denyse O'Leary
Categories: Anti-Science News
Flap over creationist cartoon shown in high-school class
This cartoon Ken Ham, The Lie: Evolution, illustrations by Steve Cardno (Master Books, 1987). See also here. was shown as part of an otherwise innocuous PowerPoint presentation to a freshman biology class at Grady High School in Atlanta and caused a bit of a flap, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The teacher and the district science coordinator apparently refused interviews, but the student newspaper reports, based on interviews with students, that the teacher did not...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
For First Amendment Purposes, Is Atheism a Religion?
Now getting courts to enforce this is another matter.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident
On Independence Day, it's appropriate to review the sources of our rights as citizens.
Stephen C. Meyer
http://www.signatureinthecell.com
Categories: Anti-Science News
On Independence Day, Recalling the Intelligent-Design Views of the Man Who Wrote the Declaration of Independence
Jefferson argued for his belief in a pervasive "design" behind nature, "without appeal to revelation" -- that is, from a scientific not a religious perspective.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Michael Flannery, Writing from Edinburgh, Offers a Nice Puzzle
"As you look at the cliff ask yourself, is the difference between the products of chance and necessity so easily distinguished from those that have been intelligently designed?"
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Great Apes Cannot Be Slaves
The words we use matter.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
The Turing Test Is Dead. Long Live the Lovelace Test.
Recently, a computer program pretending to be a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy named Eugene Goostman was hailed as the first to pass the Turing test.
Robert J. Marks II
Categories: Anti-Science News
Reply to Rick Warren and Other Clergy Re Hobby Lobby and Federal Grants
Rick Warren and others sent the most genteel invitation to perpetuate rank discrimination to President Obama this week. It is really quite eloquently stated. It asks that religious groups receiving federal grant money be allowed to continue discriminating against LGBT people, as a waiver from rules that would apply to others receiving those grants. My […]
Categories: Pro-Science News
Understanding creationism, VI: An insider's guide by a former young-Earth creationist
By David MacMillan. 6. Genetic evidence. Revised July 4, 2014. Perhaps one of the clearest and most obvious confirmations of evolution is the convergence between the evolutionary paths of descent determined by fossil evidence and the phylogenetic tree generated by algorithms analyzing genetic information. Because the tree of universal common descent is real, not invented, it leaves the same fingerprint in every part of nature that life touches. Matching trees can be found in global...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
State-Run Museum Helps Atheist Groups Attack Religion, pt. 2
Listen Now. On this episode of ID the Future Casey Luskin continues his discussion with New Mexico resident Mike Edenbum about the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science's alleged cover-up of their co-sponsoring of religion-bashing events. Edenbum...
Categories: Anti-Science News
The Turing Test is Dead. Long Live the Lovelace Test.
Recently, a computer program pretending to be a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy named Eugene Goostman was hailed as the first to pass the Turing test.
Robert J. Marks II
Categories: Anti-Science News
On July 11, Apes Will Join the War on Humans
The new Planet of the Apes movie sounds like a midsummer night's dream for biologist Eric Pianka, known for musings about what might prove lovable about an ebola pandemic.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
