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If Nature's Designs Weren't So Good, Engineers Wouldn't Be Rushing to Imitate Them
From cells to seeds to humans, there's no organism that is escaping the envy of bioengineers.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
"Creationism comes to the county fair"
Writing in the July 2014 issue of the American Geoscience Institute's magazine Earth, Scott K. Johnson relates his experience in engaging in evolution outreach in a not-so-usual venue: at his local county fair.
Categories: Pro-Science News
Science standards on hold in Wyoming
The Wyoming state board of education voted on July 1, 2014, to recommend a halt to the development of a new set of science standards for the state, according to Wyoming Public Media (July 1, 2014).
Categories: Pro-Science News
NCSE weighs in on Nye-Ham debate
A follow-up on the Nye-Ham debate in the Reports of the National Center for Science Education: Andrew J. Petto said it wasn’t a real debate, which is sort of true, but the most interesting observations, to me, were those made by John W. Patterson. Prof. Patterson, an engineering professor, correctly gives Ken Ham credit for not obfuscating, for not pretending that creationism is based on anything but his interpretation of the Bible. He thinks that...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Photo Contest VI: Finalists
Here are the finalists of the 2014 photography contest. We received approximately 24 photographs from 10 photographers, somewhat fewer than in previous years. Most of the pictures were excellent, and we had to enlist our wife to help narrow the number of finalists to 5. To choose the finalists, we considered what we thought were the scientific and pictorial qualities of the photographs, and also attempted to represent as many photographers and present as much...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Science flexes its Bicep – perhaps prematurely
You may get an idea how science really works from an article by Boston science writer Kate Becker in today’s Boulder Daily Camera. (I think the column is exclusive to the Daily Camera.) Becker describes the Bicep2 experiment, which looked for evidence of cosmic inflation by examining the polarization of the cosmic background radiation. The authors of the paper announced its conclusion before the paper had been submitted for review; since then, others have criticized...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Understanding creationism, V:An insider's guide by a former young-Earth creationist
By David MacMillan. 5. Evolution of evolution. Most creationists believe that the theory of evolution was developed out of an ideological commitment to explaining life apart from God. Explanations of the history of evolutionary theory often point out personal struggles in the lives of prominent scientists – Darwin most often, of course – in support of this belief. “Secular scientists wanted a way of explaining a world that didn’t require God, so they invented this...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
State-Run Museum Helps Atheist Groups Attack Religion
Listen Now. On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin talks with Mike Edenburn, a resident of New Mexico who is concerned that the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science co-sponsored "Darwin Day" events that promoted...
Categories: Anti-Science News
The Universe Next Door: Stephen Meyer on a Major New Fossil Discovery
Listen Now. On this episode of ID the Future, hear an interview between Tom Woodward and Stephen Meyer that originally took place on the radio show The Universe Next Door. Dr. Meyer discusses the recently discovered Marble Canyon fossil...
Categories: Anti-Science News
New Program, "Darwin Scholars," Offers Online Education on Evolution
Listen Now. On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin talks with Professor Cornelius Hunter about his new program Darwin Scholars, an online education program where people can learn about evolution. Hear Prof. Hunter discuss the program, the...
Categories: Anti-Science News
Flannery Goes to Edinburgh
Our friend and colleague Professor Michael Flannery is in Scotland, doing some research on Alfred Russel Wallace at the University of Edinburgh.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
On Human Origins, a Cautionary Tale with "Surprising" Biological Results
Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, DNA sequencing was sweeping the scientific scene with its power to answer a number of unsolved problems.
Ann Gauger
http://www.biologicinstitute.org/people
Categories: Anti-Science News
Conversations with Stephen Meyer: Surprised by Praise
It's not only the response of the critics that proves there's a legitimate scientific controversy here.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
When the Metaphor of Comparing Humans to Animals Fails
The vast gap between humans and animals, much as our culture and our science deny it, is underlined once again by this terrible story.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Universities Would Be More Honest if They Required a Darwinist "Faith Statement"
Obviously, the ideal would be if institutions like the University of Pennsylvania, Ball State (Hedin), the University of Kentucky (Gaskell) and the rest sought enlightenment unsparingly.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Squeezing the Last Life Out of the Miller Experiment
In long-lost vials of spark-discharge gunk, disciples of Stanley Miller found more amino acids and ran to the press.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
The Rabbi Who Played with Leopards
He received a wound, I assume from the second one that leaps at him. But don't worry.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Academic Freedom Alert: Ask State-Run New Mexico Science Museum Why It Used "Darwin Day" to Promote Atheism
Here is an important opportunity for you to make a difference in the fight for academic freedom.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Why Does Biology Still Have the Ability to Surprise Us?
Every ten years or so the biological apple cart is upset, and a long-established "fact" is proven to be wrong.
Ann Gauger
http://www.biologicinstitute.org/people
Categories: Anti-Science News
Video: Dembski Explains the Thesis, and the Title, of Being as Communion
The book, it seems to me, has the potential of striking at the heart of the debate over materialism in a way that even arguments about Darwinian evolution, for example, do not.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
