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Pictures from an Exhibition (of Evolution Views)
One ID-friendly scientist turned out to be a fiend with his iPhone camera.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
From a Confidential Informant, Notes on Day 2 of the Royal Society Meeting
Note his succinct running commentary.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
The Importance of Research on Monkeys
Scientists have demonstrated that paralysis caused by spinal cord injury might be overcome with brain implants.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
Best of Behe: A Quick Reprise of The Edge of Evolution
Below is a list of annotated bullet points plus some commentary summarizing it.
Michael Behe
http://www.discovery.org/p/31
Categories: Anti-Science News
Pattern Formation Explained by Evolution? Not So Fast
Animals and plants show tremendous varieties of colorful patterns and shades.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
More Evolution by Breaking Stuff
Research by German scientists involved bacteria that tossed aside an ability, to their advantage.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Crowd Effect: Evolution Stays Afloat by Dint of Sociology
"The mere fact that there's literature does not prove [an] idea," says protein chemist Douglas Axe.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Intelligent Design Is Testable. Is Darwinism?
A familiar canard is that intelligent design isn't science because it makes no testable claims or predictions.
Jonathan Witt
http://www.discovery.org/p/97
Categories: Anti-Science News
ID Scientist at Royal Society: "No Deep Discordance" Between Neo-Darwinism, Extended Synthesis
The EES folks haven't solved Darwin's problem for him.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Specter of Intelligent Design Emerges at the Royal Society Meeting
Visibly agitated scientists clash. "Not God -- we're excluding God," says one speaker.
Paul Nelson
http://www.discovery.org/p/45
Categories: Anti-Science News
Day 2 at the Royal Society: A "Knee-Jerk" Jab at Intelligent Design, Applause for "Marginalized Ideas"
We could do without the applause. But how about letting advocates of "marginalized ideas" speak?
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
More Reports from Confidential Informants at the Royal Society
ID sympathizers at the meeting "wonder whether we should all have some kind of signal...rub the left nostril twice perhaps?"
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Elephant in the Room: Douglas Axe Reports from the Royal Society
"Bigger issue...is that none of these additions enable the theory to explain how genuinely new things originate."
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Horns of a Dilemma: Does Intelligent Design Do Too Little -- or Too Much?
There's no pleasing some people.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Robert Richards and Evolutionary Apologetics
That Darwinism has not coincidentally been put to evil ends would seem indisputable.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Tropical Birds Are Not More Colorful, Prompting Evolutionary Speculation
With evolutionary scholarship there's a bright red light where the data ends and the storytelling begins.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
How Consensus Can Blind Science
Visiting a Mayan temple, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb had a revelation.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Breaking Bad -- Behe on How Evolution Really Works
When we hear Darwinian evolution invoked, it's typically to explain how complex contrivances are built.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
From an Unlikely Source, Praise for Richard Weikart and Hitler's Religion
Ron Capshaw chides fellow atheists, "normally rational," who "throw up their hands and seek a supernatural explanation for [Hitler]."
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Irreducible Complexity and the Evolutionary Literature: A Response to Critics
Following the publication of Darwin's Black Box, web-savvy fans of natural selection set up extensive, sophisticated sites to dispute the book.
Michael Behe
http://www.discovery.org/p/31
Categories: Anti-Science News
