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RNCSE 33:6 now on-line
NCSE is pleased to announce that the latest issue of Reports of the National Center for Science Education is now available on-line.
Categories: Pro-Science News
NCSE's first webinar for activists
What can citizens like you do to respond when science education comes under attack? How can you and other concerned citizens organize to fight back? What can you do to prevent attacks on science education in your community? NCSE is pleased to announce the first of a new series of on-line workshops aimed at broadening and deepening the networks that make our work possible. The workshop begins at 3:00 p.m. Pacific time (6:00 p.m. Eastern time) on November 25, 2013, and spaces are still available, so register now!
Categories: Pro-Science News
New Documentary Explores C.S. Lewis' Views on Intelligent Design
Click here to listen. On this episode of ID the Future, hear about a new short documentary that explores C. S. Lewis' life-long struggle to find intelligent design in a world filled with pain. Discover Lewis' journey that took...
Categories: Anti-Science News
Lenski's Long-Term Evolution Experiment: 25 Years and Counting
Richard Lenski's work represents a baleful portent for any theory of evolution that relies exclusively on blind, undirected processes.
Michael Behe
Categories: Anti-Science News
Darwin in the Dock: C.S. Lewis's Doubts about the Creative Power of Natural Selection
Lewis first read French philosopher Henri Bergson during World War I while recovering from shrapnel wounds, and the experience was profound.
John G. West
http://www.discovery.org/p/18
Categories: Anti-Science News
Today on the Michael Medved Show, John West Will Discuss C.S. Lewis's Views on Evolution, Intelligent Design
For Lewis, the evolution debate was much more than academic.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Archaeopteryx Reclassified as a Different Kind of Evolutionary Icon?
Oh, now this has got to be a bit of a disappointment, including for the manufacture of a certain high-priced outdoor clothing brand.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Neanderthals Made String? Credit Intelligent Design
Plant fibers twisted together defy explanation by reference to unguided natural processes.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
If ETs Were Found, That Might Well Constitute Evidence for Intelligent Design
Physicist and astrobiologist Paul Davies has a sensible op-ed in the New York Times that packs somewhat of a hidden wallop.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
In the Freshwater Case, the Ohio Supreme Court Dodges Ruling on Academic Freedom to Critique Darwinian Evolution
The Court's ruling upholds John Freshwater's termination, but its reasoning has nothing to do with the teaching of evolution.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
Leading Science-Denial Group, National Center for Science Education, Taps New Executive Director to Succeed Eugenie Scott
What the NCSE really needed was a clone. And it looks like they think they've found one.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Documentary Debut: "C.S. Lewis and Intelligent Design"
Lewis's journey took him from a position sharply hostile to arguments for design to views bearing remarkable similarities to those advocated by ID proponents like William Dembski.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Texas Set to Adopt Textbooks that Disregard State Science Standards Requiring Critical Evaluation of Evolutionary Theory
"Sadly, students will pay the price. Excellence in science education is poorly served by a capitulation to dogma."
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Darwin in the Dock: C.S. Lewis's Limited Acceptance of Common Descent
It would be wrong to conclude that his acceptance of some kind of human evolution placed him in the camp of mainstream evolutionary biology, or even mainstream theistic evolution.
John G. West
http://www.discovery.org/p/18
Categories: Anti-Science News
Uncommonly Dense Thread 4
Post by Richardthughes
Denyse intellectually self-harms again:
http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelli....houghts
Quote Come to think of it, the only time I ever encountered the Bible code in relation to ID was when I met an ID-sympathetic computational physicist at a conference. I had reviewed his book on the subject, which I quite liked.
As it happens,—using information theory—he had demonstrated that there is no Bible code. Chunkdz surely can’t mean him (?)....
Whoops:
http://www.pandasthumb.org/archive....he.html
Denyse intellectually self-harms again:
http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelli....houghts
Quote Come to think of it, the only time I ever encountered the Bible code in relation to ID was when I met an ID-sympathetic computational physicist at a conference. I had reviewed his book on the subject, which I quite liked.
As it happens,—using information theory—he had demonstrated that there is no Bible code. Chunkdz surely can’t mean him (?)....
Whoops:
http://www.pandasthumb.org/archive....he.html
Categories: AE Public BB
Uncommonly Dense Thread 4
Post by Wesley R. Elsberry
Quote (DiEb @ Nov. 20 2013,10:19) Quote (Learned Hand @ Nov. 20 2013,15:28)When was the last time Dembski posted on UD himself?
Last post: Design Inference vs. Design Hypothesis (October 1, 2012)
But Dembski is on record that design hypotheses are already part of his design inference.
http://www.antievolution.org/cs....e....ectures
Quote (DiEb @ Nov. 20 2013,10:19) Quote (Learned Hand @ Nov. 20 2013,15:28)When was the last time Dembski posted on UD himself?
Last post: Design Inference vs. Design Hypothesis (October 1, 2012)
But Dembski is on record that design hypotheses are already part of his design inference.
http://www.antievolution.org/cs....e....ectures
Categories: AE Public BB
Uncommonly Dense Thread 4
Post by Zachriel
Quote (Bob O'H @ Nov. 20 2013,12:07)You know how we keep on pointing out that IDists can't calculate CSI for anything realistically biologically? Well, now Sal can't even work out how to calculate CSI for coin tosses.
As Mark Frank points out, the only way to determine a probability is to make some assumptions about how the objects came to be in alignment. Using scordova's method of counting the alignment of many objects, lodestone, diamonds, even the rays of the Sun would have CSI.
Quote (Bob O'H @ Nov. 20 2013,12:07)You know how we keep on pointing out that IDists can't calculate CSI for anything realistically biologically? Well, now Sal can't even work out how to calculate CSI for coin tosses.
As Mark Frank points out, the only way to determine a probability is to make some assumptions about how the objects came to be in alignment. Using scordova's method of counting the alignment of many objects, lodestone, diamonds, even the rays of the Sun would have CSI.
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A Separate Thread for Gary Gaulin
Post by Texas Teach
Quote (JohnW @ Nov. 21 2013,16:42) Quote (Texas Teach @ Nov. 21 2013,14:29) Quote (GaryGaulin @ Nov. 21 2013,16:17) Quote (Woodbine @ Nov. 21 2013,15:42)Hi Gary,
Who uses (or has ever used) your 'theory' as a basis for scientific research?
None of the thousands of people who are downloading it from one place or another have to report back to me. So how would I know the exact number?
They are all revolutionizing science! In complete secret!
Hahahahahaha
So what do you think, TT? Under the sea, or inside a volcano?
Moon base? On the grassy knoll?
Quote (JohnW @ Nov. 21 2013,16:42) Quote (Texas Teach @ Nov. 21 2013,14:29) Quote (GaryGaulin @ Nov. 21 2013,16:17) Quote (Woodbine @ Nov. 21 2013,15:42)Hi Gary,
Who uses (or has ever used) your 'theory' as a basis for scientific research?
None of the thousands of people who are downloading it from one place or another have to report back to me. So how would I know the exact number?
They are all revolutionizing science! In complete secret!
Hahahahahaha
So what do you think, TT? Under the sea, or inside a volcano?
Moon base? On the grassy knoll?
Categories: AE Public BB
A Separate Thread for Gary Gaulin
Post by Texas Teach
Some more entries for the Gaulinese to English dictionary:
Being precise= using a grammatically incorrect word to be less precise in case someone's lying.
They= third person singular pronoun used when someone might be lying, especially when it would be irrelevant if the person was doing so.
K-12 level= detailed. Or very simple. Do in such a way as to be appropriate for children to learn anywhere between the ages of 6 and 18, during which time the same level of detail (or possibly simplicity) is used due to the fact that children do not not need different levels of instruction between these ages. It is therefore the level at which revolutionary science should be communicated.
Cognitive science= what we are required to talk about, no matter what field of science we are actually talking about. Ideally at the K-12 level.
Some more entries for the Gaulinese to English dictionary:
Being precise= using a grammatically incorrect word to be less precise in case someone's lying.
They= third person singular pronoun used when someone might be lying, especially when it would be irrelevant if the person was doing so.
K-12 level= detailed. Or very simple. Do in such a way as to be appropriate for children to learn anywhere between the ages of 6 and 18, during which time the same level of detail (or possibly simplicity) is used due to the fact that children do not not need different levels of instruction between these ages. It is therefore the level at which revolutionary science should be communicated.
Cognitive science= what we are required to talk about, no matter what field of science we are actually talking about. Ideally at the K-12 level.
Categories: AE Public BB
A Separate Thread for Gary Gaulin
Post by GaryGaulin
Quote (Quack @ Nov. 21 2013,16:27) Quote (GaryGaulin @ Nov. 21 2013,16:17) Quote (Woodbine @ Nov. 21 2013,15:42)Hi Gary,
Who uses (or has ever used) your 'theory' as a basis for scientific research?
None of the thousands of people who are downloading it from one place or another have to report back to me. So how would I know the exact number?
How stupid is it possible to be? You were not asked a number, and certainly not an "exact number".
But you can name one, can't you? Name one! The question was not about a number, it was about who use or have used... Please, onve in your life, tell the world that there is at least one person in this world using your theory. (Besides yourself, but you are not using it for anything are you?) I am asking a similar question all the time, and you pretend you don't see it.
I already well explained why I do not give names of researchers I know who are OK with the theory, therefore have it in mind to help them form ideas to help their research. I doubt they would want this forum to know who they are, and I am not going to speak for them. All I can say is that it's getting around the internet. And the only complaints are from the Anti-ID crowd. But they do not qualify as serious researchers who have use for a theory like this.
Quote (Quack @ Nov. 21 2013,16:27) Quote (GaryGaulin @ Nov. 21 2013,16:17) Quote (Woodbine @ Nov. 21 2013,15:42)Hi Gary,
Who uses (or has ever used) your 'theory' as a basis for scientific research?
None of the thousands of people who are downloading it from one place or another have to report back to me. So how would I know the exact number?
How stupid is it possible to be? You were not asked a number, and certainly not an "exact number".
But you can name one, can't you? Name one! The question was not about a number, it was about who use or have used... Please, onve in your life, tell the world that there is at least one person in this world using your theory. (Besides yourself, but you are not using it for anything are you?) I am asking a similar question all the time, and you pretend you don't see it.
I already well explained why I do not give names of researchers I know who are OK with the theory, therefore have it in mind to help them form ideas to help their research. I doubt they would want this forum to know who they are, and I am not going to speak for them. All I can say is that it's getting around the internet. And the only complaints are from the Anti-ID crowd. But they do not qualify as serious researchers who have use for a theory like this.
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