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Understanding creationism, IV:An insider's guide by a former young-Earth creationist
By David MacMillan. 4. Transitional fossils. One of the most common and most frustrating creationist objections to evolution is the claim that there are no “missing links” or “transitional fossils” required by evolution. This claim is made without qualification, particularly in presentations to lay or church audiences. As unthinkable as it might seem, creationists really do believe that transitional fossils simply do not exist. On this basis, they conclude that evolution must be false. They...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Collecting specimens and killing bears
A report this morning on NPR asks, “Is collecting animals for science a noble mission or a threat?” The question is left unanswered, but the reporter notes that collecting specimens from small, isolated, and endangered species can be counterproductive, at best. Ben Minteer, an author of the Science article that inspired the NPR report (not to mention a rebuttal by around 120 other scientists), recommends photographs and DNA samples in lieu of specimens, but other...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Discovery Institute Attack on Cosmos Provides a Teaching Moment of Its Own
I’ve a brief new article in the new Skeptical Inquirer (July/August 2014) regarding Casey Luskin’s botched attack on the second episode of Cosmos. Here it follows - your comments are welcomed. Fox TV’s Seth McFarlane has joined with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan’s widow and collaborator, to continue Sagan’s marvelous Cosmos series of decades ago. The new series is a splendid blend of homage to Sagan’s original one with dazzling...
Dave Thomas
http://www.nmsr.org
Categories: Pro-Science News
Recurvirostra americana
Recurvirostra americana – American avocet, Walden Ponds, Boulder, Colorado....
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Reviewing Cosmos: The Mistreatment of Science History
Listen Now. On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin and Andrew McDiarmid continue their discussion of the recent TV series Cosmos. Hear why the show's treatment of the history of science attracted much criticism from science historians,...
Categories: Anti-Science News
The Universe Next Door with Tom Woodward: Stephen Meyer on His Debate with Charles Marshall
Listen Now. On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Meyer talks with The Universe Next Door host Tom Woodward about his new book Darwin's Doubt, discussing his recent debate with paleontologist Charles Marshall about the causes of the...
Categories: Anti-Science News
Jonathan Wells: Is There Biological Information Outside of the DNA?, pt. 4
Listen Now. On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Jonathan Wells continues his discussion with Casey Luskin about his recently published paper, "Membrane Patterns Carry Ontogenetic Information That Is Specified Independently of DNA." In previous podcasts, Dr. Wells...
Categories: Anti-Science News
Darwin's Doubt Is Recognized as a "Book of the Year" by World Magazine
"Meyer was WORLD's Daniel of the Year in 2009, shortly after he published his previous big book, Signature in the Cell."
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Playing Roulette with Life
Some scientists think an incredible string of luck, analogous to making a series of very lucky bets, is the explanation for why we are here.
Ann Gauger
http://www.biologicinstitute.org/people
Categories: Anti-Science News
Pushing the Limits of Cambrian Ancestry
It's a stretch to call a tube-like burrow in the Ediacaran evidence of a bilaterian ancestor of humans.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Optics Engineers Improve Light Sensors for Cameras Through Biomimicry
Digital cameras, and cell phone cameras, of course, are the result of millions of years of blind and unguided evolutionary processes, not intelligent design.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
The Cell's Postal System
Amazing. Hard to sort out how it happened, isn't it?
Ann Gauger
http://www.biologicinstitute.org/people
Categories: Anti-Science News
Telling Theists What They Think: Philosopher Versus Philosopher at the New York Times
It's like some of these guys are conducting a disputation in their head against the ghost of childhood religion.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Slowly, Slowly South Carolina Hammers Out a New Science Standard
"Argument and debate are common in science yet are virtually absent in science education."
Joshua Youngkin
http://www.discovery.org/p/501
Categories: Anti-Science News
Exactly a Year Since Darwin's Doubt Was Published, Critics Still Come Up Empty
It's like the note from the doctor or your mom that gets you out of school on the day of the big test.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
More Papal Impersonators -- Now in Gnostic Masks
You don't need "conscious evolution" to appreciate nature or want to protect it.
Bruce Chapman
http://www.discovery.org/p/7
Categories: Anti-Science News
Calling Karl Giberson: Human "Tail" in the News
The story is that a boy in India was born with a 7-inch tail and today is worshipped as the incarnation of a monkey god.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
The CSI Effect
"Once a jury hears something scientific, there's a kind of mythical infallibility to it." But is that true only of juries?
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Like a Grandfather Clock: The Splicesome's Intricate Dance of Parts
One of the most complex molecular machines in the body has now revealed its inner workings in more detail than ever before.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Milestone: 500 Reviews for Darwin's Doubt at Amazon
No controversy about evolution, you say? Oh that controversy!
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
