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Theologically Speaking, What Intelligent Design Is and What It Isn't
Prolific author Aidan Nichols is former John Paul II Memorial Lecturer in Roman Catholic Theology at Oxford and currently prior of the Dominican house in Cambridge.
Michael Flannery
http://www.discovery.org/p/471
Categories: Anti-Science News
Problem 3: Step-by-Step Random Mutations Cannot Generate the Genetic Information Needed for Irreducible Complexity
Most everyone agrees that Darwinian evolution works well when each small step along an evolutionary pathway provides a survival advantage.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
The Historical Significance of Jack Kevorkian
If tomorrow's history books lionize him as a visionary leader of freedom, the culture of the West will be as dead as Kevorkian's 130 "patients."
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
"We're All Just Apes Here"
Why is it, one might ask, that genetic reductionism lives on, despite its odiousness?
Michael Egnor
Categories: Anti-Science News
An Evolutionary Challenge: Explaining Away Compassion, Philanthropy, and Self-Sacrifice
British geneticist J. B. S. Haldane said, we are told, that he would risk his life for two brothers or eight cousins.
Denyse O'Leary
Categories: Anti-Science News
Protein Quality Control Surprise: An Enzyme Can Operate a Stalled Ribosome
"Nature is capable of more than we realize," a biochemist says.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
A Plea for Conceptual Hygiene in Neuroscience
We can make no real progress in understanding the mind while we hold to concepts that are nonsense.
Michael Egnor
Categories: Anti-Science News
Programmed Cell Death Is Vital to Life, but Where'd It Come From?
Cells die for many reasons -- they die to give shape to our fingers and toes, they die to produce our nervous system, and more.
Ann Gauger
http://www.biologicinstitute.org/people
Categories: Anti-Science News
A Christmas Gift that Keeps Giving: Lawrence Krauss on Eric Metaxas on Science, on God
That Christmas Day article by Eric Metaxas in the Wall Street Journal continues to stir discussion and denunciation.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
David Berlinski's Daughter, Claire, Reports on Being Present Moments After Today's Paris Terror Attack
As Claire notes, she was late for an appointment -- which, had she been on time, would have put her right at the scene of the attack as it was happening.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
On the Origin of Life, Salon Says "Creationists" Are Running Scared Due to "Brilliant New Science"
Headline writers for Salon have a fondness for attributing extreme states of mind to Darwin skeptics.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
More Complexity by Subtraction: The Case of the Gecko
Subtract an innovation and evolution takes off running. Just ask the non-adhesive geckos.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Postscript on the Barnes & Noble Mis-shelving Mystery
This could be the definitive proof that Karl Marx was wrong that capital shapes consciousness.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Darwin Day approaches
It's time to dust off your Darwin costume again: less than a month remains before Darwin Day 2015!
Categories: Pro-Science News
A glimpse of Lost Antarctica
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of James McClintock's Lost Antarctica: Adventures in a Disappearing Land (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Categories: Pro-Science News
Outrage in West Virginia
"Groups that support teaching students about the evidence showing that humans are contributing to a global rise in temperatures are speaking out against West Virginia's changes to the state's new K-12 science education standards," reports the Charleston Gazette (January 4, 2015).
Categories: Pro-Science News
Would the Supreme Court defend public education from the religious right?
Anyone who relies on the Supreme Court to guarantee that creationism will not be taught in public school or that the Ark Park’s threatened lawsuit will necessarily fail might want to read an article by Erwin Chemerinsky in the January 1 issue of The Washington Spectator. In that article, which I take to be a longish abstract of his book, Chemerinsky argues that the Court has generally not lived up to its “lofty expectations” and...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Best ID Takedown of 2014 - Perhaps Ken Miller's Demolition of "Edge of Evolution"?
Michael Behe is very thrilled that a PNAS paper published this year “confirms a key inference I made in 2007 in The Edge of Evolution.” The Discovery Institute is also thrilled, enough so to reprint Behe’s July 14, 2014 op-ed on ENV as this year’s #4 in the top-story countdown. Says Behe, regarding what he describes as “the need for multiple, specific changes in a particular malarial protein (called PfCRT) for the development of resistance...
Dave Thomas
http://www.nmsr.org
Categories: Pro-Science News
Proterozoic schists
Photograph by Jim Kocher. Photography contest, Honorable Mention. Painted Wall – Black Canyon of the Gunnison River, Montrose, Colorado, May, 1999; Kodachrome 64. Proterozoic schists intruded by pegmatite dikes (~1.25 Ga). Vertical relief is ~2,200 ft....
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Welcome to the Top Ten Scientific Problems with Biological and Chemical Evolution
"There are no weaknesses in the theory of evolution."
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
