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A Separate Thread for Gary Gaulin
Post by GaryGaulin
BTW: I have been spending all my free-time on the ID Lab and what I now have is already lifelike enough to be a little bit scary. And not because how it (still) works is complicated, it's because it's not. Something to respect and be careful with, or else (one way or another) be destroyed by.
Don't be in a rush to let the more theatrical thrills and shocks of a human (to human created intelligence) intelligent causation event now happening in our lifetime lead all to a tragically enslaving Karn Evil 9 ending.
BTW: I have been spending all my free-time on the ID Lab and what I now have is already lifelike enough to be a little bit scary. And not because how it (still) works is complicated, it's because it's not. Something to respect and be careful with, or else (one way or another) be destroyed by.
Don't be in a rush to let the more theatrical thrills and shocks of a human (to human created intelligence) intelligent causation event now happening in our lifetime lead all to a tragically enslaving Karn Evil 9 ending.
Categories: AE Public BB
A Separate Thread for Gary Gaulin
Post by midwifetoad
No Gary, name a feature that did not evolve.
No Gary, name a feature that did not evolve.
Categories: AE Public BB
Uncommonly Dense Thread 5
Post by REC
This, from Sal, seems worth preserving. He's all about phylogenetic methods, but resorts to nonsense about "gaps between created kinds" to scuttle the obvious evolutionary implications of a sound method.
Quote They ignore obvious gaps between created kinds...
Otherwise, the phylogenetic methods for a created kind I think are really cool. They’ve been used to reconstruct Y-chromosomal Aaron, and possibly Abraham, and maybe, just Maybe Noah or the daughters in law of Noah. We’ll see. I’m not totally against phylogeny, but I don’t believe in 1 universal phylogenetic tree, I believe in an orchard of phylogenetic trees.
UD link
This, from Sal, seems worth preserving. He's all about phylogenetic methods, but resorts to nonsense about "gaps between created kinds" to scuttle the obvious evolutionary implications of a sound method.
Quote They ignore obvious gaps between created kinds...
Otherwise, the phylogenetic methods for a created kind I think are really cool. They’ve been used to reconstruct Y-chromosomal Aaron, and possibly Abraham, and maybe, just Maybe Noah or the daughters in law of Noah. We’ll see. I’m not totally against phylogeny, but I don’t believe in 1 universal phylogenetic tree, I believe in an orchard of phylogenetic trees.
UD link
Categories: AE Public BB
A reversal in South Carolina?
Just three days after the South Carolina Education Oversight Committee refused to approve a section of the new state science standards involving evolution, Senator Mike Fair (R-District 6), a member of the committee whose opposition was responsible for the refusal, is reportedly withdrawing his objection.
Categories: Pro-Science News
RNCSE 34:1 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
NABT opposes Oklahoma's antiscience bill
The National Association of Biology Teachers expressed its opposition to Oklahoma's Senate Bill 1765 (document), which, if enacted, would deprive administrators of the ability to prevent teachers from miseducating students about "scientific controversies."
Categories: Pro-Science News
Aykut Kence dies
The Turkish biologist Aykut Kence died on February 1, 2014, at the age of 67, according to soL Portal (February 1, 2014).
Categories: Pro-Science News
For Darwin Day, Discovery Institute Names University of Chicago Biologist Jerry Coyne as "Censor of the Year"
Listen Now. On this episode of ID the Future, David Klinghoffer announces Discovery Institute's 2013 Censor of the Year award. Listen in as Klinghoffer explains why we've chosen to recognize University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne, out of several...
Categories: Anti-Science News
Dr. Michael Egnor: How Science is Censored
Listen Now. On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Michael Egnor is on the show again to talk more about his recent debates with atheist evolutionary biologist Dr. Jerry Coyne. Listen in as Egnor and Research Coordinator Casey...
Categories: Anti-Science News
In Love With Death: Belgium Passes Child-Euthanasia Law
Targeting the youngest and most vulnerable, in the name of principles that sound high-minded, may hold a sadistic allure for a certain personality.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Suggestion to Our Readers: Edit Wikipedia and Correct the Lincoln/Darwin Myth
I'll then set my stopwatch and see what happens.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Wikipedia Invents a Mythical Account of Lincoln and Darwin
Wikipedia makes up a fanciful story about Abraham Lincoln reading and being deeply moved by Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
John G. West
http://www.discovery.org/p/18
Categories: Anti-Science News
Help Us Educate the Next Generation of Scientists and Scholars!
World Magazine interviewed (anonymously in some case) students who participated in last year's Summer Seminar.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
In the Canadian Rockies, a Major Fossil Find Intensifies the Object of Darwin's Doubt
Some 26 miles from the famous Walcott quarry, a new exposure of Burgess Shale fossils has come to light.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Are Humans the Enemy? In Time for Wesley Smith's War on Humans, It's Darren Aronofsky's Noah
If Hollywood invests that much money in a film about a Biblical character, they've got to have something up their sleeve.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln and Intelligent Design
There was one book about evolution in which Lincoln seems to have taken a definite interest.
John G. West
http://www.discovery.org/p/18
Categories: Anti-Science News
Happy Darwin Day! To Celebrate, Go Review Four Years of BIO-Complexity
It's enlightening to have things briefly crystalized this way. Thank you, Ann Gauger.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
It's Darwin Day, and the "Censor of the Year" Poster Has Landed
See you next year. I don't expect we will have trouble identifying an equally deserving "winner" though I would be delighted to be wrong.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Intelligent Design and the "Deep Future"
A hurdle we face in talking about intelligent design lies in most people's being content with far too short a view of the future.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
"Censor of the Year" Jerry Coyne Wants a Poster of Himself. He Read Our Minds.
As I've already indicated, being recognized as a bully doesn't merit a prize, yet we couldn't let this go totally unmarked by ceremony.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
