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14 hrs ago | NPR

Science and Sacred

It's time to move on. The traditional Science vs. Religion debate -- the one which gets all the airplay, the one which endlessly pits Creationism vs.

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Related Topix: Supernatural

Mon Feb 08, 2010

Times Record News

God is the great embroiderer who stitches us together

"Intelligent Design" is a current scientific area that studies not so much "intelligent causes" of the universe, but "informational pathways induced by intelligent causes," according to William Dembski in "Mere Creation." It is to say that "the world contains events, objects and structures that exhaust the explanatory resources of undirected ...

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Sun Feb 07, 2010

About.com

Mailbag: Atheists, Holocaust Denial, and Ideology, Part 4

Many critics of Intelligent Design supporters who ask that we "teach both sides" in science classes have analogized this to the Holocaust: should we also teach the "side" of Holocaust Denial in history classes? I never imagined that this analogy might be used in the opposite direction, but that must be the fault of my limited imagination.

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Sat Feb 06, 2010

OUPblog

Disproving the Notion of Random Chance in Evolution

John C. Avise is Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine .A His new book, Inside the Human Genome: A Case For Non-Intelligent Design , tackles the philosophical question of why humans are imperfect on the genetic level if made by a Creator God.A In this excerpt, Avise asserts that ...

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Related Topix: UC Irvine, Irvine, CA

Thu Feb 04, 2010

Examiner.com

Access Research Network's top ten media-related intelligent design stories for 2009 #7

On August 26, 2009, an interview between John McWhorter and Michael Behe about Behe's recent book Edge of Evolution [- which discussed limits to Darwinian evolution -] appeared on bloggingheads.tv. Within hours the interview disappeared with this message "from" McWhorter posted by the administrator: "John McWhorter feels, with regret, that this ...

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Related Topix: Public Relations, Darwin, CA

Wed Feb 03, 2010

ScienceBlogs

Ben Stein waxes nostalgic [Thoughts from Kansas]

You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that it loses itself early and does not find itself any more.

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Related Topix: Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Comedy Movies, Ben Stein, University of Kansas, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Mary Landrieu, US News, US Senate, Democrat, US Politics

Tue Feb 02, 2010

Stranger fruit

Methodological and Philosophical Naturalism

The issue of MN/PN came up in my class last week and in comments . I don't really have time to adequately deal with the questions at the moment, but I do want to link to these two posts by Larry Moran and John Pieret on a talk given by Maarten Boudry, the abstract of which I give below: In recent rounds of debate between evolutionists and ...

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Sun Jan 31, 2010

ScienceBlogs

Will Minnesota Standards Allow Creationism in the Classroom? [Greg Laden's Blog]

Blogroll Archives The following story is current, but the issue is not new. But interesting.

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Related Topix: Minnesota Government, Minnesota

Fri Jan 29, 2010

John Dvorak

Brit Science Professors Fighting Creationism In The Classroom

Some are being failed in university exams because they quote sayings from the Bible or Qur'an as scientific fact and at one sixth form college in London most biology students are now thought to be creationists.

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The Austringer

"Signature in the Cell" Tampa: Part 1

I attended the "Signature in the Cell" "intelligent design" creationism event last night in Tampa, Florida .

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Related Topix: Tampa Metro

Wed Jan 27, 2010

Freerepublic.com

PETA Petitions Punxsutawney To Replace Phil (Groundhog) With Robot

PETA is proposing a futuristic change to a Pennsylvania tradition. Tuesday morning, the animal rights activist group sent a letter to the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club's Inner Circle urging that Phil be replaced with an animatronic model.

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Related Topix: Punxsutawney, PA, Science / Technology, Robots, Animal Rights, Life, Holidays, Groundhog Day

Tue Jan 26, 2010

Off the Kuff

Another SBOE primary fight to watch

I've mentioned before that the GOP primary for SBOE District 5 is worth watching, but I didn't know much about it at that time.

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Related Topix: San Antonio, TX

Sun Jan 24, 2010

The Birdchaser

Conservation Biologists must oppose Feral Cat Colonies

What Conservation Biologists Can Do to Counter Trap-Neuter-Return: Response to Longcore et al.

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Related Topix: Cats, Pets

Sat Jan 23, 2010

Scientific Blogging

The Himalayan Glacier Conspiracy

Of course, the global warming "deniers" want to use this as evidence of deception, instead of acknowledging it as an error.

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Fri Jan 22, 2010

Laudator Temporis Acti

Evidence of Intelligent Design?

Ronald W. Clark, Benjamin Franklin: A Biography , p. 150: It was he, after all, who noted to the Abbe Morellet "that God wants us to tipple, because he has made the joints of the arm just the right length to carry a glass to the mouth, without falling short of or overshooting the mark."

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Thu Jan 21, 2010

Hit and Run

Protozoans Against Intelligent Design

The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology has just published a very nice paper showing how the details of protist evolution "dispel the myths of intelligent design." Generally, protists are "unicellular eukaryotes that either exist as independent cells, or if they occur in colonies, do not show differentiation into tissues." Think amoebae or ...

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Related Topix: Microbiology, Biology, Science

Robots.net

Robot Evolution Through Intelligent Design

That's the motto of RoMeLa, the Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory at Virginia Tech.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots

Tue Jan 19, 2010

About.com

Intelligent Design? Comets Responsible for Earth's Atmosphere

Some religious theists try to argue that the special creation of our planet is somehow proven by how delicately balanced the elements of the atmosphere are and how our atmosphere is retained by the placement of the planet.

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Living the Scientific Life (Scientist...

Downfall of IDiocy

GrrlScientist is a colorful parrot who writes by typing with her beak. She's also an evolutionary biologist and a proud member of the vast left-wing conspiracy that your mother warned you about.

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Mon Jan 18, 2010

Pravda

Is Avatar Scientific?

We hear it all the time. "Mother Nature" designed this or "Mother Nature" designed that.

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