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Biologist's New Argument Against Intelligent Design: Under ID, Gazelle Should Run Toward Cheetah
We've now had two reports of this. I double-checked to make sure there was no misunderstanding on my part.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
On New Model for Human Ancestry, Mathematician Ola Hössjer Responds to Critics
Over at the BioLogos Forum, a couple of scientists have taken on two new BIO-Complexity papers by Hössjer, Gauger, and Reeves.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Really, That's Enough of the Media's Ghoulish Exploitation of Stephen Hawking
Now he's put a firm sell-by date on planet Earth.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Why It Matters: New Survey Quantifies the Impact of Evolutionary Ideas on Faith and Ethics
Science intersects with values, and here's how, detailed in a 17-page report by CSC associate director John G. West.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Evolution of Mammary Glands: Will You Take Some Teleology with That?
Try to re-write this report and avoid using the teleological action verbs imputed to ostensibly blind, dumb evolution.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Paul Nelson on Intelligent Design and the Royal Society's "White Bear Problem"
Andrew McDiarmid debriefed the Discovery Institute philosopher of biology on last week's events in London.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
An Unbearable Rush -- Antarctic Whale Fossil Poses a Challenge to Evolution that Won't Go Away
Evolutionary considerations are plainly pushing the interpretation of data here.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
In California, Assisted Suicide for the Institutionalized Mentally Ill
The "death with dignity" movement is driving us out of our collective minds.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
An Evolutionary View on Speech Isn't "Settled Science"
And in large part it isn't even about science.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
"Practical as Potatoes" -- Eric Metaxas on Behe, ID, and Revolutionary
Let's be frank, there is an emotional investment that design deniers have in their resistance to the evidence.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
What It Takes to Build a Hook for the Flagellum
Mike Behe is further vindicated by this case of irreducible complexity within irreducibly complexity.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
A European Scientist on "Beyond Materialism" Meeting
"I will concentrate on the truly stunning and encouraging spirit of this event."
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Prince or Pauper? Researchers Find Functional Pseudogene in Fruit Fly
If a gene is a pseudo-pseudogene, it is not a pseudogene. It might be a gene.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Michael Behe on the Legacy of Denton's Evolution: A Theory in Crisis
Ever wonder what major and highly original scientific advocates of intelligent design think of each other's work?
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
BBC: An Iguana with Serious Pluck
If you don't like seeing lots of snakes moving very fast, don't watch this.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
ID's British Invasion Is a Hit as We Complete the "Beyond Materialism" Conference at Cambridge U.
The Royal Society meeting may have been short on scientific fireworks, but "Beyond Materialism" was a great success.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Creationist classification of theropods
“Liaoning scene” by Emily Willoughby. Guest post by Jonathan Kane. Mr. Kane describes himself as an “armchair paleontologist” who worked as an intern at the New Jersey State Museum under natural-history curator David C. Parris from 2001 to 2005. He is the lead author of God’s Word or Human Reason? An Inside Perspective on Creationism, coauthored by Emily Willoughby and T. Michael Keesey, shortly to be published by Inkwater Press. A major focus of...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Triboniophorus graeffei
Photograph by Paul Blake. Photography contest, Honorable Mention. Triboniophorus graeffei – red triangle slug, Mount Castle area, Great Dividing Range, southwest of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia....
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
In Arrival, Noam Chomsky's Visiting Martian Gets Hollywood Treatment
Tom Wolfe disputes Chomsky on whether language is "biological" and therefore the product of Darwinian forces.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Royal Society Meeting Not Provocative Enough for You?
For a wrap-up of the Royal Society gathering, let's turn again to our confidential scientists on the scene.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
