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If one question seems to govern my life right now it is, "Why believe something with insufficient evidence?" Every day I tell my students in every subject that they must "Show...not tell!" It is an axiom in fiction writing but also in science. I take it
Recent Posts Tagged With 'intelligent design'
Teabaggers to attack "Darwin-lovers?"
Is there going to be a "tea party" at Southern Methodist University over the Darwin celebrations this year? The Texas Freedom Network reports that Bill Dembski, "cdesign proponentsist" extraordinaire, wants his students to stick it to the "Darwin-lov...
More reasons the Disco Tute is bunk
They're trying to censor people on YouTube. They can't take the heat so they have to strong arm people using pseudo-legal methods. I guess a bunch of dishonest lawyers are good at something: virtually mugging critics.I take it that it's about somethi...
So the Discovery Institute thinks it's...what?
Oh the Disco 'Tute. I think they should just forget it. They are a faith-based initiative. This is beyond words. The new write-up in New Scientist and their new launching pad from Faith and Evolution just shows how transparently Christian they are. W...
Challenge to the Disco 'Tute: Find one gene that has been unambiguously designed
This is a great challenge to the ID folks. Let's see what happens.My hypothesis: A lot of hand-waving, misdirection, excuses, goal-post moving, and complaining... type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/152/addthis_widget.js">...
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Want to hear a killer primer on why evolution is true? Then listen to Jerry Coyne discuss his new book, Why Evolution is True, on Point of Inquiry with D.J. Grothe. He discusses biogeography, genetics, the fossil record, embryology, sex, and natural ...
Behe and the Design in Biology: Part Two
In my previous post on this topic, I covered roughly the first half of Michael Behe's lecture on ID at Penn State. In what follows, I will finish summarizing his lecture, intersperse questions that relate to his points, and end with a final reaction ...
Behe and the Design in Biology: Part One
As I noted earlier, "cdesign proponentsist," also known as an "intelligent design" proponent, Dr. Michael Behe (Biochemist at Lehigh University) delivered a lecture at Penn State's University Park campus, titled "The Argument for Intelligent Design i...
Michael Behe: Tonight at Penn State
Tonight famed "cdesign proponentsist" Michael Behe will be speaking in 101 Thomas Building at Penn State's University Park campus. [Click here for a Facebook page on it.] He is being brought here by the Science and the Bible Club whose mission "is to...
Ben Stein gets dissed
The University of Vermont was going to have Ben Stein speak at its graduation commencement. Upon the announcement a lot of people slammed the choice. According the Burlington Free Pres, "That announcement was greeted with derision in Vermont’s blog...
Louisiana about to be hit by the nonsense hurricane
Last year, the Louisiana legislature passed SB 733 (see my posts here and here) which successfully opened the door to senseless lessons on evolution, global warming, human cloning, and . Lots of people, including the Louisiana Coalition for Science, ...
The IDEA Center is a shell
Allen McNeill has a great post up on all of the university-based "research centers" William Dembski touted a few years ago. They are dead or non-existent. He looked through all of the posted IDEA Center's affiliates and found them kerplunk. What a br...
"...actually an illusion..." [Updated]
Celebrate good times!Raymond Eve and Chawki Belhadi have just released "Evolution, Creationism, and Public Schools: Surveying What Texas Scientists Think about Educating Our Kids in the 21st Century." The survey finds, unequivocally, that Texas scien...
Louisiana's Trojan Horse: Part Two
Yesterday, I posted the first half of my summary on my talk, “Thou Shall Not Inhibit Academic Freedom: The Evolution of Anti-Evolutionism.” I had started to discuss Louisiana’s SB 733“Science Education Act” and looked at its language. T...
Louisiana's Trojan Horse: Part One
Last night I gave my talk "Thou Shall Not Inhibit Academic Freedom: The Evolution of Anti-Evolutionism." About 80-100 people attended, there were 25-minutes of questions afterward, and six people asked for copies of my slides (if you'd like them, I c...
ID's educational and legal merit? Little if any. Part 2
In this post I will continue my argument that ID has little if any legal or educational merit. In two previous posts (here and here) I have rebutted some of Casey Luskin's arguments that ID has educational and legal merit as he has argued on the webs...
