Intelligent Design
From String and Wax to Routes and Nodes
Why No Large Men's Organisations, asks AH. No vehicle, like a Learjet to wing us on the way to success? The parts are being grown, organically, in all parts of the world. We need a bio-mechanic or two to rivet the parts together. But can you find the parts growing in lots of... »
John Updike and Me
I first encountered John Updike through his Roger’s Version, a cosmological and theological treatise disguised as a porno novel. Updike, as he admitted in Roger’s Version, is really a Marcionite Heretic. This ancient heresy, most recently advanced by the German theologian Karl Barth, holds that God is wholly other, completely unapproachable by reason: theology... »
Intelligent Design “witch hunt”? Royal Society education chief labeled “creationist”, forced to resign
In September 2008 Reiss suggested that, rather than dismissing creationism as a “misconception”, teachers should take the time to explain why creationism had no scientific basis. Following misleading reports that Rev Professor Michael Reiss had advocated that creationism should be taught in science class, he left his post as director of education at the... »
Big Bang exploded? Is there room for reasonable skepticism about Big Bang theory
Agnostic retired Australian political science prof Hiram Caton has recently been tackling the huge industry of pious legends and ridiculous reverence around Charles Darwin. I also happened to mention to him the frothier bits of speculation about the multiverse, and he replied, Your comments and criticisms of the ‘multiverse’ speculation are well taken; basically it’s gibberish.... »
Expelled movie: Why the scientists were expelled, and why you should care
“Many recent discoveries do not support a materialist position, but increasingly that position is enforced as an orthodoxy” by Denyse O’Leary Yesterday a friend told me about a new movie he thought I should see. Starring comic Ben Stein, it shows how dangerous it is for a scientist today to say that there is evidence of... »
Would Darwin Censor Intelligent Design?
If in fact the arguments for ID are ludicrous, I do not see why there is so much pressure for censorship and suppression. Either one believes in rational discussion or one does not. If ID is easy to refute, then refute it. Who knows, the ID people may give up, or refine their arguments;... »
Jindal Signs Intelligent Design Law
Louisiana Republican Governor Bobby Jindal signed a controversial bill hailed by intelligent design supporters, such as the Discovery Institute, and Louisiana Family Forum, a creationist group. Critics of the bill, including several major science organizations, say it allows for the teaching of “creationism” in public schools. The law, Louisiana Science Education Act, allows teachers to... »
Intelligent Design: Answers and Questions
I am somewhat weary of the Intelligent Design discussion, because I find the whole subject irrelevant to the major problems that face US education. As to the truth of falsity of the purely mechanical, random selection hypothesis, most of the discussion I have seen hasn’t been very relevant. What concerns me is the vehemence with... »
Panspermia Theory for Life’s Origins Gets Boost from Top Scientists
Previous studies had identified amino acids and sugars in the meteorite that were believed to have formed in space. »
Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why The Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up By John Allen Paulos
In John Allen Paulo’s debut book, Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences, this mathematician brought a sparkling wit and astute powers of observations to the widespread problems of math deficiencies and math avoidance. He followed that brief and potent book with several others including Beyond Numeracy: Ruminations of a Numbers Man and A Mathematicians... »
Jindal in Spotlight over Intelligent Design
Governor Bobby Jindal, a possible Republican Vice Presidential candidate from the U.S. state of Louisiana, appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday and said he supports teaching intelligent design (ID) in public school as “the very best science.” Jindal, who was elected governor in 2007, is a Hindu convert to Catholicism. “Some want only... »
Gods, Earthlings, and Intelligent Design
I don’t usually get into the “Intelligent Design” argument, because I don’t have a lot to add to it; but once in a while poseurs like Professor Richard Dawkins jump into the fray with such outrageous aplomb that I feel compelled to answer. See here for his latest. Dawkins uses a simple method of argument:... »
Harpoon fragment dated from around 1890
Nineteenth-Century Harpoon Found in Live Whale »
Conclusions Precede Research
The lamestream media told you: The highly authoritative International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has determined that mankind is responsible for global warming. If massive changes aren’t made quickly, under international control, the planet may be doomed and life could become extinct. The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: Accuracy In Media (AIM), the Wash., D.C.-based non-profit media... »
Planet Earth banning common light bulbs
They’re unwanted in Cuba, Hugo Chavez is trying to kick them out of Venezuela, Australia and Canada are on timetables to get rid of them, the European Union says they soon simply won’t be available and now the U.S. is considering new rules that effectively would ban the incandescent light bulb. It’s a global sweep... »
Conjecture Wins Documentary
The lamestream media told you: And the Oscar winner is… An Inconvenient Truth! The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: In an easily predictable result, Al Gore, the man who formerly claimed he invented the Internet, won the Academy Award for best documentary, for a mockumentary about global climate. In the film, which examines one side of one... »
Greenhouse is People
The lamestream media told you: Carbon dioxide, produced from the burning of fossil fuels, is the primary greenhouse gas. U.S. emissions of this gas have increased an average of 1% per year since 1990, according to H. Josef Hebert writing for the Associated Press. No source for the information was provided. Limits on U.S. industry... »
Intelligent Design, The Omega Point Theory, and the Elephant in the Room
Last month New Scientist Magazine ran a routine hit piece on the Intelligent Design movement in an article called The God Lab. According the writer of the piece, wealthy Christian Evangelicals are even now funding an evil plan to introduce the Christian God like “Jesus juice” into the punchbowl of serious academic discussion. Despite sacrificing... »
Virgin Birth Announced
The lamestream media told you: Just in time for Christmas, a London zoo announced a virgin mother awaiting offspring — for a Komodo Dragon lizard. The beast, which has been in captivity all her life and has never been exposed to a male, has achieved what is known as parthenogenesis, says Maria Cheng of the... »
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