May 3, 2008

To some, Chuck Baldwin is the consummate Christian minister. To others, he’s a one-man think-tank studying, researching and analyzing the human condition within today’s American society.
One minute he’s leading a church service for one a large Christian congregation in Florida. Next minute, you’ll hear Rev. Baldwin telling his audience why he’s against killing innocent, newborn [...]

March 2, 2008

One man’s magic is another man’s science.
Religious essayist Rev. Eric Strachan of the New Life Community Church in Ontario, Canada has published a short essay in The Daily Observer called “The Wonders of Intelligent Design.”
Strachan writes: “There’s a difference in the things that God creates, and the stuff that men and women design, a world [...]

February 20, 2008

Brown University biologist Kenneth Miller says the best way to communicate evolution in a religious America is to acknowledge that there is indeed a “design” in living things. Miller says scientists should embrace the concept of “design” in a way that supports evolutionary theory. Miller made his provocative argument at a Feb. 17, 2008, symposium [...]

February 6, 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 and [...]

January 28, 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 ( [...]

January 22, 2008

[Editor's Note: This article shows slide 8 in a series of 14 slides available at JudgingPBS.com, a new website featuring "Darwin's Failed Predictions," a response to PBS-NOVA's online materials for their "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial" documentary.]
According to PBS, the male peacock’s beautifully-colored tail is easily explained using sexual selection: females prefer the colorful [...]

January 17, 2008

“Darwin Day” , a celebration of “the life of Charles Darwin as the symbol for a global celebration of science and humanity” is coming to a school near you on February 12, 2008.
Sponsored by the Institute for Humanist Studies , their website encourages that Darwin Day be celebrated at: “civic ceremonies with official proclamations, educational symposia, birthday [...]

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.”[1] Public skepticism of evolution remained high—a 1993 poll found [...]

January 15, 2008

[Editor's Note: This article shows slide 7 in a series of 14 slides available at JudgingPBS.com, a new website featuring "Darwin's Failed Predictions," a response to PBS-NOVA's online materials for their "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial" documentary.]
PBS observes that Darwin boasted that embryology provided “the strongest single class of facts in favor of” his [...]

January 11, 2008

[Editor's Note: This article shows slide 6 in a series of 14 slides available at JudgingPBS.com, a new website featuring "Darwin's Failed Predictions," a response to PBS-NOVA's online materials for their "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial" documentary.]
PBS observes that the famous 19th century naturalist, T.H. Huxley, declared that “evolution excludes creation and all other [...]