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Leslie Orgel: Metabolic Origin of Life “Unlikely”; Complexity Requires “A Skilled Synthetic Chemist”

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Last year I blogged about Robert Shapiro’s excellent article in Scientific American that gave cogent critiques of many standard models of the chemical origin of life. Shapiro critiqued the view that a primordial soup existed on the early earth that ultimately gave birth to a self-replicating molecule, which eventually evolved into RNA... »

Posted in Science & Nature, Vox Populi | 2 Comments »

New England Journal of Medicine Rejects Pro-ID Letter About Kitzmiller Decision

Monday, January 28th, 2008

On June 2, 2006, I submitted a short, 175-word letter to the editor of The New England Journal of Medicine ( NEJM ), responding to the incomplete and one-sided discussion of the Kitzmiller ruling they published, ” Intelligent Judging — Evolution in the Classroom and the Courtroom ,” by George J. Annas... »

Posted in Vox Populi | 4 Comments »

Darwin’s Failed Predictions, Slide 8: “Why sexual selection?”

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

According to PBS, the male peacock’s beautifully-colored tail is easily explained using sexual selection: females prefer the... »

Posted in Vox Populi | 5 Comments »

The Facts about Intelligent Design: A Response to the National Academy of Sciences’ Science, Evolution, and Creationism

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Introduction A 1982 poll found that only 9% of Americans believed that humans developed through purely natural evolutionary processes. Two years later, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) issued its first Science and Creationism booklet, stating that science and religion occupy “separate and mutually exclusive realms.” Public skepticism of evolution remained high—a 1993 poll... »

Posted in Vox Populi | 6 Comments »

Darwin’s Failed Predictions, Slide 7: “Evolving views of embryology”

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

PBS observes that Darwin boasted that embryology provided “the strongest single class of facts in favor of”... »

Posted in Science & Nature, Vox Populi | 2 Comments »

Darwin’s Failed Predictions, Slide 6: “Darwinism: grounded in science or propped up by philosophy?”

Friday, January 11th, 2008

PBS observes that the famous 19th century naturalist, T.H. Huxley, declared that “evolution excludes creation and all... »

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The Double Standard for Intelligent Design and Testability

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Many proponents of intelligent design (ID) have argued for design of the cosmos based upon the highly improbable fine-tuning of our universe to permit the existence of advanced forms of life. Skeptics of cosmic-design often cite the possibility that there are infinite universes, or “multiverses,” where our universe just happened to win a cosmic... »

Posted in Vox Populi | 31 Comments »

Darwin’s Failed Predictions: 4, 5

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Slide 4: “The role of natural selection in evolution is controversial among scientists (continued)” As discussed... »

Posted in Vox Populi | 10 Comments »

Darwin’s Failed Predictions, Slide 3: “The role of natural selection in evolution is controversial among scientists”

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

As noted in the Introduction, PBS asserts that the data “unequivocally” support the view that “volution happens... »

Posted in Vox Populi | 45 Comments »

Darwin’s Failed Predictions (1 and 2)

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Darwin’s Failed Predictions (1 and 2)

PBS confidently instructs us that “evolution happens.” But should that matter? Even Darwin’s scientific critics... »

Posted in Vox Populi | 9 Comments »

Busting Another Darwinist Myth: Do Scientists “Never” Use the Term “Evolutionist”?

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Evolutionists sometimes try to re-frame the debate over evolution such that it appears that there is no debate. They fear that merely using the term “evolutionist” could lead people to the belief that not all scientists are Neo-Darwinian “evolutionists.” ( A belief that would be correct .) Some Darwinists have even spun urban legends... »

Posted in Vox Populi | 2 Comments »

Cataloguing Darwinist Denials and Flip-Flopping over the Role of Intelligent Design in ISU’s Tenuregate

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

The controversy over why Guillermo Gonzalez was denied tenure has resulted in much flip-flopping and denials from Darwinists at Iowa State University (ISU): John Hauptman, ISU Physicist: Now: The ISU Daily reports, “Hauptman said his tenure decision was ‘absolutely not’ based on Gonzalez’s research into intelligent design.” Then: Last June, Hauptman explicitly admitted... »

Posted in Current Events, Vox Populi | 6 Comments »

Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig Rebuts Latest Tall Tale of Giraffe Evolution

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Darwinists sometimes think that they can account for the evolutionary origin of a complex biological feature simply by citing some kind of experimental or theoretical evidence showing that the complex feature would have provided a selective advantage to its owner. However, such Darwinists forget that, as many have recounted, natural selection only accounts for... »

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Wired Magazine Acknowledges Discrimination against Guillermo Gonzalez and Understands What the Ames Tribune Ignored

Monday, December 17th, 2007

In a post entitled “ Denied Tenure, Astronomer Alleges Intelligent Design Witchhunt ,” Wired Magazine ’s blog has acknowledged that Iowa State University (ISU) discriminated against Guillermo Gonzalez because he supports intelligent design: So far, science bloggers and defenders of evolution have dismissed Gonzalez’s complaints. However, I’m not sure they’re being fair. Though out-of-context... »

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Posted in Media, Society, Vox Populi | 10 Comments »

How Eli Rosenberg, Chair of ISU’s Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Concealed Viewpoint Discrimination When Explaining Tenure Denial

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

Tenure votes at the earliest levels are made by a faculty member’s department, and they typically set the tone for whether that faculty member will ultimately receive tenure. Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez was first denied tenure by his Department of Physics and Astronomy at Iowa State University (ISU) in November 2006, and he soon thereafter... »

Posted in Vox Populi | 3 Comments »

Secret ISU Faculty E-mails Express Vitriol Towards Intelligent Design, Disregard for Academic Freedom, and attempts to Hide a Plot to Oust an Outstanding Scientist

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Public document requests under Iowa’s Open Records Act have obtained revealing correspondence of key faculty members within ISU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy. Various e-mails show that Dr. Gonzalez’s department was concerned about the “embarrassment” that intelligent design (ID) caused the department’s reputation and unconcerned about protecting his academic freedom–despite the fact that ISU’s... »

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Design Was the Issue After All: ISU’s official explanation in Gonzalez case exposed as a sham

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Documents show Gonzalez was denied fair tenure process by hostile colleagues who plotted behind his back, suppressed evidence, and then misled the public. Click Here To See a PDF Version of this Document with Citations Included. Executive Summary. Internal e-mails and other documents obtained under the Iowa Open Records Act contradict public claims by Iowa State... »

Posted in Education, Vox Populi | No Comments »

Judge Jones Admits the Activist Nature of Kitzmiller Ruling on Lehrer Newshour

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Federal judges don’t ordinarily travel around the country speaking about their judicial rulings, but Judge Jones is no ordinary federal judge. While promoting the PBS-NOVA special on intelligent design, he recently appeared the Lehrer Newshour, where he made striking admissions that demonstrate the activist nature of the Kitzmiller ruling. Two hallmarks of judicial activism are... »

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PBS Airs False Facts in its “Inherit the Wind” Version of the Kitzmiller Trial

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

More than 50 years ago two playwrights penned a fictionalized account of the 1920s Scopes Trial called “Inherit the Wind” that is now universally regarded by historians as inaccurate propaganda. Last night PBS aired its “Judgment Day: Intelligent Design” documentary, which similarly promotes propaganda about the 2005 Kitzmiller trial and intelligent design (ID). Most... »

Posted in Current Events, NewsWax, Vox Populi | 2 Comments »

Future of Conservatism: Darwin or Design?

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

Occasionally a social issue becomes so ubiquitous that almost everyone wants to talk about it — even well-meaning but uninformed pundits. For example, Charles Krauthammer preaches that religious conservatives should stop being so darn, well, religious, and should accept his whitewashed version of religion-friendly Darwinism.1 George Will prophesies that disagreements over Darwin... »

Posted in Conservatism, Politics, Society, Vox Populi | 74 Comments »

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