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Let?s at Least Be Honest About ID
2008-05-24 21:32:00 I found a decently done review of Ben Stein’s idiocy, ‘Expelled’, but the reviewer has swallowed a little bit of the ID Kool-Aid and it happens to be a bit of Kool-Aid that annoys me greatly. Having now watched the film — which is terrible, filled with specious reasoning, false dichotomies, and self-contradiction — I ...
Orson Scott Card - Intelligent Design, Darwin, Global Warming and Scientifi
2008-05-18 05:30:00 Orson Scott Card writes a very compelling article that navigates around the issue of intelligent design, Darwin's theory of evolution, scientific dogma and global warming in quite a persuasive manner. His premise comes down to scientific dogma stifles true science. Even science that seems "proven" isn't, or it no longer falls under the title "science". He makes the point that intelligent design is HorseSwaggle, but uses it as a device to talk about the science community. When it starts censoring new thought and stops the questioning of theories then it is no longer part of science. I am a skeptic of the global warming hysteria currently gripping the media and political class and eventually he addresses that as well. Faith in global warming is an orthodox religion, and anyone who questions it is being treated like a heretic, while fakery "in a good cause" is tolerated. The result? Science is over to the degree that the global warming orthodoxy succeed in s...
By: techRivet
Can?t We All Just Get Along? Evolution vs Intelligent Design
2008-05-14 05:25:00 The controversy surrounding the teaching of intelligent design alongside the theory of evolution in our schools is simply remarkable to me. I also don’t understand why Christian activists think that if creation can’t be taught exclusively, it must be must be taught in tandem with evolutionary theory. Truth be told, I’ve never had ...
By: shyspeak.net
Intelligent design is being expelled!
2008-04-27 19:34:00 A video by Edward Current Shame on Big Science for trying to squash Intelligent Design -- something I confirmed with only about an hour of research. Who knew that science is worse than Hitler?
By: ExChristian.net
This Morning on Flashpoint: Intelligent design in the science class
2008-04-20 16:55:00 Supporters of the Academic Freedom Act working its way through the Florida legislature swear up and down it has nothing to do with creationism or intelligent design. Actually supporters of this bill don't generally swear because they are, for the most part Christians who doubt Darwin or disbelieve the accepted theory of evolution completely. I wouldn't call them liars, but Ronda Storms and others who support this effort to protect teachers who want to teach alternative theories to evolution are being less than forthcoming when they refuse to admit that what they really want is intelligent design taught alongside the settled science of Darwin in Florida science classes. My guests are Terry Kemple, a conservative activist supporting the bill and Joe Wolf, president of Florida Citizens for Science.
By: Flashpoint
Better flash lighting through intelligent design and utilization.
2008-04-19 13:24:00 ” Single Flash Limitations : A single direct hot shoe flash regardless of where it is positioned will create sharply defined dark shadows because the size of the lightsource is small and there is no secondary light source to “fill” and modulate the tone of the shadows. ” “When a flash is raised directly above the ...
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Creation
2008-04-18 15:21:00 First, I want to thank Christine over at Welcome to My Brain for always giving me something to think about. I don’t always comment on her blogs, but I always read them. I don’t always agree with her, but I always think hard about her postings. Kudos! Her posting today, Ben Stein and ...
Gravity: A theory in crisis. Enter Intelligent Falling.
2008-04-15 16:21:00 Evangelical scientists refute gravity with new “Intelligent Falling” Theory. Request for equal time in schools has been made.
Expelled promoters lie?Who woulda thought?
2008-04-06 19:37:00 John M. Lynch of ScienceBlogs blog Stranger Fruit was sent an email from the promoters of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed telling him that a local pre-screening of the crocumentary had been canceled. It was not canceled. Interestingly, the email about the “cancelation” was sent to only 29% of those who received the initial invitation, with ...
Is Mainstream Science Dogmatic? (Repost from December)
2008-03-28 20:12:00 Given that the release of the crocumentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is right around the corner, and that its promotional team is showing the sorts of dogmatism that it is accusing the mainstream scientific community (or, “Big Science”) of (e.g., by expelling prominent critic, PZ Myers from a screening, attempting to bribe Christian schools to force their ...
Tomorrow: LIVE media tele-conference with Ben Stein and producers of Expell
2008-03-28 02:16:00 Here is a cut-and-paste from an email I just received: JOIN BEN STEIN TOMORROW, Friday, March 28 at 1:00 pm. PST for an exclusive, invitation-only LIVE press teleconference! Hear Ben Stein LIVE as he talks to you and other members of media, answering your questions about his upcoming, highly-controversial movie, EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed Hear why leaders like Dr. ...
Atheists are banned from an intelligent design movie
2008-03-26 17:00:00 The banning of atheists from a prescreening of Ben Stein?s film, Expelled No Intelligence Allowed, drew hundreds of postings in the blogosphere this week.
By: Evolution Minute
PZ Myers EXPELLED from Expelled!?!?
2008-03-23 01:10:00 A number of blogs have already commented on this unsurprising bit of irony: the makers of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (an upcoming Intelligent Design/Creationist crocumentary attempting to cast mainstream science - and evolutionary science in particular - as a dogmatic and somewhat totalitarianesque regime, to misrepresent evolutionary biology and the research behind it, and to ...
Responding to Intelligent Design/Creationism: The probability of Abiogenesi
2008-03-14 16:26:00 This is the long-delayed second edition of responding to ID/Creationism, which was inspired by the heaps of disingenuity and ignorance offered up by Frank Sherwin of the Institute for Creation Research a few weeks ago at the Christian literalist organized and slanted War of the Worldviews religion debates in Whitby, Ontario. As will generally be the ...
Expelled: No Intelligent Flying Spaghetti Monsters Allowed
2008-03-10 17:44:00 I’m mad. Flaming mad! I thought the scientific community was about academic freedom, following the evidence wherever it leads, and expelling dogmatism. That was until I saw this documentary preview. I was wrong. The scientific community that I had long trusted and respected has been usurped by Darwinist dogmatists. Richard Dawkins may be Darwin’s Rottweiler, ...
The fundamentalist?s implicit acknowledgement of his own ridiculousness
2008-03-10 07:36:00 Dave Scot at Uncommon Descent [i.e., a ridiculous blog by and for Christian fundamentalists who like to delude themselves and each other into thinking that 1) Intelligent Design is a science rather than one big faith-based argument from ignorance; 2) that there is some grand dogmatic “Darwinist” conspiracy in the scientific community which is dedicated to ...
The troubles of debating Creationists
2008-03-03 15:53:00 Steven Novella of NeuroLogica has written an incisive analysis of PR strategies that are apparently being employed by Creationists, particularly when it comes to debating evolution and Creationism. I highly recommend reading his analysis, which I present below.Novella writes: Yesterday I interviewed PZ Myers, author of the popular science blog Pharyngula, for this week?s SGU podcast, ...
Responding to Intelligent Design/Creationism: The Law of Biogenesis
2008-03-03 02:30:00 This is the first entry of an ongoing program on this blog dedicated to responding to Intelligent Design/Creationist claims. Leading Intelligent Design/Creationism advocates accuse mainstream scientists of being dogmatically attached to naturalistic evolution, they describe evolution as being a faith rather than a scientific enterprise, they refer to those who accept evolution as “Darwinists”, so ...
Letter to the Editor Re: War of the Worldviews religious debates in Whitby,
2008-03-02 20:24:00 The recent War of the Worldviews religious debates in Whitby, ON was covered in the Durham Region newspapers this week. The event was also covered extensively on this blog, here, here, here and here. My letter to the editor on this event can be read below. I will be sending the letter of as soon ...
Religious Groups Criticize Intelligent Design Movement
2008-02-23 03:03:00 The International Society for Science and Religion has released the following statement on intelligent design: The International Society for Science and Religion is a scholarly society devoted to ongoing dialogue between the sciences and the community of world faiths (see www.issr.org.uk). It was established in 2002 for the purpose of promoting education through the support of ...
By: Liberal Values
Hateful message directed to Pastarians at Michigan Tech University
2008-02-20 08:06:00 “they should be shot and hanged from the tallest redwood and then thrown to the raging sea” read the note posted on the door of the newly-formed Michigan Tech University Pastafarian club. In October, the website of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster reported that the two students who had been identified as the ...
I just received a poem from Rapture Alert about Darwin?s alleged recantatio
2008-02-18 22:50:00 For those of you who haven’t heard of Rapture Alert, it’s a website dedicated to the anticipation of the rapture. One of the website’s fans or administrators just sent in a poem in response an earlier post on a Florida school board which had voted to oppose the teaching of evolution as fact. Take a ...
Florida legislators pushing for evolution to be taught as ?just a theory?
2008-02-07 02:36:00 Remember what I said about having to be a right-wing Christian nutter in order to be a public school administrator or council member in Florida? Well apparently it also applies to legislators in the state. Marc Caputo of the Miami Herald writes: Top state legislators say they’re ready to join the fight over putting the word ”evolution” in ...
Bill Dembski on who most needs to see the upcoming ID crocumentary, Expelle
2008-02-05 01:33:00 In yet another of his inane ramblings, Bill Dembski lies for Jesus once again. In an interview with the Southern Baptist TEXAN (so you know the reporter is gonna be asking the hard questions, right…) regarding the upcoming Intelligent Design-advocating Christian Right crocumentary, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Dembski asserts that “those who most need to ...
Ed Brayton rips Ray comfort a new one. Yes Ray, you are an idiot.
2008-01-29 17:09:00 A few weeks ago I posted an article entitled Ed Brayton rips Joe Farah a new one. Yes Joe, waterboarding is torture. Well this time he has done it to Ray “the banana is the atheist’s worst nightmare” Comfort. Brayton’s full post is presented below.
Apparently I?m closed-minded and blindly enamoured with science. Maybe that
2008-01-26 17:59:00 A reader, Bill, writes: “Ron, you have made it abundantly obvious that you are as closed-minded and blindly enamoured with ?science? and attached to your beliefs as any christian that you attack on this blog. It?s pathetic. You ignore the strongest arguments against your view, criticize the stupidest possible reading of the Bible and ignore ...
Are Creationists retarded? No?
2008-01-23 22:08:00 (Originally from Family Guy; Online Source: De Rerum Natura)
Over 11,000 American Clergy oppose Intelligent Design
2008-01-23 21:10:00 Ken at Open Parachute reports on the Clergy Letter Project, an effort to collect signatures from American Clergy who oppose the teaching of Intelligent Design Creationism and schools and who ascent to evolutionary biology. Begun in Fall2004, as of the time of this writing the Clergy Letter Project has collected 11,147 signatures. Compare this to ...
An Intelligent Design documentary offers rebates on movie tickets
2008-01-23 17:00:00 Producers of a pro-Intelligent Design movie starring Ben Stein are raising money for schools by making donations in exchange for ticket stubs.
By: Evolution Minute
The ?Oppression? of Christians in America
2008-01-17 22:31:00 It’s become somewhat popular among hardline Christians in America to claim that they are being oppressed. “The scientific community is oppressing Intelligent Design” (which isn’t scientific, is based on no evidence, makes no predictions, and has been proven to be nothing more than Creationism in a cheap disguise, and was even rejected outside of the ...
Producers of Expelled trying to bribe Christian schools into encouraging, b
2008-01-17 19:04:00 Producers of the Intelligent Design propaganda film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed are trying to bribe Christian schools in America to facilitate or even force their students to go see their movie.
Intelligent Design - Religion
2008-01-14 00:57:00 Many purporters of the 'Intelligent Design' theory that sits well with his omnipotence, a.k.a. god, may have their ideology of the word 'intelligent' shaken to it's foundations.If human beings are to be considered intelligent god may be having a good 'ol chuckle, just to remind us who's boss.A Hayden, Idaho man believed that he saw the biblical ?mark of the beast? on his hand, and so he decided that it must be cut off. The man cut off his own hand with a circular saw and then proceeded to cook it in the microwave before he dialed 911.The man is in protective custody while being held in the mental health area of Kootenai Medical Center. Sheriff deputies said the man was totally calm when they arrived at his home. He apparently had no regrets at the time about cutting it off. The gentleman is in his mid-20?s, and officials have no idea if the man has any history of mental illness. He may not have had any previous know mental illness, but you have some problems if you go cu...
By: Secret-Teachings
1/12/08
2008-01-13 04:17:00 If the banana is proof that God exists, then somebody other than God must have designed watermelons.
By: One Sentence
I?m in a bit of a bind? Should I dignify ID blog posts with critiques?
2008-01-12 09:20:00 As I point out frequently: Intelligent Design is an insult to human intelligence and is absolutely not science. It’s just, well, stupid. There are some highly visited ID proponent blogs out there. I visit them from time to time, though always on an empty stomach. Whenever I go, no matter how much I mentally prepare ...
Jack Rivall reviews the Intelligent Design Wedge Strategy to insert Christi
2008-01-11 06:45:00 Jack Rivall, a friend and fellow secular activist from North Dakota, recently reviewed the Intelligent Design Wedge Strategy to insert Christianity into the public Science classroom (and to create an illusion of scientific respectability). Briefly, the Wedge Strategy is a coordinated long term effort to convince the public that Inteligent Design, the notion that the universe and ...
The Taylor County School Board in Florida has voted to oppose evolution
2008-01-09 08:43:00 In yet another demonstration of faith-based ignorance, yet another another American school board has voted to teach evolution as “just a theory”.
Pope Vs Science?Is It Happening?
2008-01-04 15:29:00 Science is taking a back seat to the Pope with the dismantling of the astronomical observatory that has been part of Castel Gandoifo, south of Rome, for more than 75 years. The Pope claims he needs more room for diplomats and has ordered the observatory be removed to a new location. Father Jose G. ...
Huckabee vows to force intelligent design upon America
2008-01-04 07:37:00 DES MOINES, IOWA - Hot on the heels of his victory in the Iowa Caucus, Mike Huckabee has declared “a new day is needed in American politics, just like a new day is needed in American government.” He continued by telling supporters: It starts here, but it doesn’t end here. It goes all the way through ...
By: Turd on a Stick
Science advisers give fresh boost to evolution
2008-01-04 02:52:00 WASHINGTON - In a newly published report, scientific advisers to the government emphasize the importance of teaching evolution in public schools. The report by the National Academy of Sciences and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: My View of It
Response to U of T Varsity Student Paper Article on Evolution and Intellige
2008-01-03 22:12:00 In late November the University of Toronto’s Varsity student newspaper ran this article in which it attempts to compare evolution, intelligent design, and creationism—yes, that’s correct, they distinguished between ID and creationism. My response, submitted as an Op-Ed, is presented here.
1/1/08
2008-01-01 20:41:00 The ironic thing about Creationists is that they believe in a Force that is infinitely more knowledgeable than man, but can’t conceive that there might be a Science that is beyond man’s understanding.
By: One Sentence
FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER 2, AMERICAN CREATIONISTS 0. WOOOOOOO!!!
2007-12-28 00:08:00 First off, I know that I’m supposed to be responding to the comments of cmadland and jross before I write more posts, but I couldn’t help myself with this one! Remember in 2005 when advocates for the Flying Spaghetti Monster played a major role in having Intelligent Design Creationism removed from Kansas public school science classes, ...
Texas debates intelligent design
2007-12-19 17:00:00 In Texas, events surrounding a January 2008 meeting of the State School Board are escalating into a highly charged debate between the pro- and anti-evolution camps lobbying for changes in the state's science curriculum.
By: Evolution Minute
Huckabee?s Intelligent Design Nascar
2007-12-08 06:41:00 First we had Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney quarrelling about penis size, then we had Barack Obama dawning black face in an effort to become more black in order to get more votes, and now we have Mike Huckabee solidifying himself as the symbol of uneducated America by comparing the Presidential election to a ...
By: Turd on a Stick
Anthony Flew, Intelligent Design Supporter, Soft on Eugenics [Greg Laden&rs
2007-12-02 03:31:00 John Lynch is reporting: ID supporters seem to like Antony Flew, the one-time atheist philosopher who has apparently seen the light and become a deist. They have awarded him the Phillip Johnson Award for Liberty and Truth, they have lauded his latest book, and Bill Dembski exclaims “God bless Antony Flew!” But at the risk of raining on the parade, there’s something that Bill needs to realize - the fearless Flew seems to have a very ambivalent attitude (to put it mildly) to eugenics. Prometheus Books recently published its New Encyclopedia of Unbelief, a work to which I provided an entry on Haeckel and co-wrote (with Matt Young) the entry on unbelief among scientists. While browsing my copy, I stumbled across the entry on eugenics (pp. 294 - 296, pdf), written by none other that Antony Flew…. Indeed, this gets very interesting. Go to Flew’s Eugenic Leanings Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-Science...
Cesium 137 - Intelligent Design
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By: everything synth
Intelligent Design and Natural Intelligence Are Two Peas in the Same Old Po
2007-11-25 00:00:00 “That lady Madalyn O’Hair got murdered because she took prayer out of schools,” said the man on the news. I once interviewed Mad Madalyn. I also knew she got murdered because she was cheap and exploited her employees at the Atheist Center in Austin, Texas, not because of prayer in schools. ... |
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