Uncommon Descent:
Today, Intervarsity Press (IVP) in the UK publish a new symposium, entitled “Should Christians Embrace Evolution?” edited by leading geneticist Professor Norman Nevin. Andrew Sibley has already posted about it on UD and linked to the preface. Believers in a God-guided Darwinism are preaching that Darwinism is a fact and tha (Read More)
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Uncommon Descent:
Anika Smith, of the Discovery Institute, brings us exciting new information: SEATTLE, WA – Despite Darwinist’s attempts to suppress the debate over evolution, a new book about the controversial theory of intelligent design made Amazon.com’s list of the year’s Top 10 bestselling books in science, just as the world marks 150 (Read More)
Intelligent Design the Future:
Click here to listen.What exactly is the positive argument for intelligent design? This episode of ID the Future is taken from a recent lecture on intelligent design given by Casey Luskin. Because of the way the media misrepresents the issue, even those who may be predisposed to support ID don't understand what the theor (Read More)
Uncommon Descent:
Intelligently Designed NanotechnologyAs Casey Luskin reveals in this episode of ID the Future, eminent biologists have said that they must continually remind themselves that what they see in biology evolved, and was not designed. But now engineers are turning to biology to replace human technology because biological pathway (Read More)
Uncommon Descent:
Check out this editorial in the Washington Examiner by Casey Luskin. The title is “Let’s restore civility to the debate on evolution and intelligent design.”Casey was superbly rational, reserved and eloquent, as usual. But check out the comments, which reveal trademark, frothing-at-the-mouth, apoplectic, near-convulsive, Da (Read More)
Intelligent Design the Future:
Click here to listen.On this episode of ID the Future, CSC's Rob Crowther interviews Casey Luskin about his in-depth response to Chris Mooney's The Republican War on Science, correcting fourteen major factual and logical errors in Mooney's chapter on intelligent design. How can Chris Mooney be so wrong on this issue? Lis (Read More)
Uncommon Descent:
A friend has alerted me to this book and article in The Times online.Charles Darwin and the children of the evolutionThe headline makes the statement “The naturalist outraged the church, prompting a bitter debate that still sets creationists against evolutionists. Now a sinister link has emerged between his work and the rec (Read More)
Uncommon Descent:
IPFW religious forum explores the nature of scienceStaff reportsTuesday, 10 November 2009 08:33www.fwdailynews.comThe Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) University Religious Forum will host “Understanding the Nature of Science: Why Intelligent Design is Considered a Pseudo-Science” with Jeff Nowak, Ph.D. (Read More)
Uncommon Descent:
Here is a video of Robert Wright’s lecture on the evolution of compassion. I’ve written on this recently at UD here.My point in the other blog was to note that if compassion has an evolutionary explanation for its existence, then so does not being compassionate, and so does every other aspect of our entire humanity by being (Read More)
Uncommon Descent:
Getting Over Our Love for DarwinBy William A. DembskiPosted Tuesday, November 03, 2009http://www.texanonline.net/default.asp?action=article&aid=6474&issueCharles Darwin published his “Origin of Species” in 1859. There he presented the classic formulation of his theory of evolution. Lady Ashley, reacting to the theory at the (Read More)
Uncommon Descent:
My review of Michael Flannery’s edition of Darwin’s co-theorist Wallaces’s World of Life in Touchstone has been published.Having followed the intelligent design controversy for a decade, I have noticed a recent key change. This year, being the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species, should have co (Read More)
Uncommon Descent:
Science 6 November 2009:Vol. 326. no. 5954, pp. 784 – 787DOI: 10.1126/science.326_784 On the Origin of Religion Elizabeth Culotta“How and when did religion arise? In the 11th essay in Science’s series in honor of the Year of Darwin, Elizabeth Culotta explores the human propensity to believe in unseen deities. No co (Read More)
Uncommon Descent:
Robert Wright is seen here in a video presentation giving a lecture about the evolution of compassion.He begins by saying that compassion, love and sympathy had earned their way into the gene pool. Regardless of how any gene could “earn” it’s way into a gene pool before it is a gene (because all genes, by being genes, are i (Read More)
Uncommon Descent:
We would like to remind our readers that Michael Behe has a sub-blog here at UD, which can be accessed at the sidebar under “Intelligent Design Links.” Last week Behe put up a four-part series replying to science writer Carl Zimmer’s comments about Behe’s response to Joseph Thornton’s recent work. The final paragraph is c (Read More)