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Stephen Meyer responds to Francisco J. Ayala's review of his book Signiture in the Cell.

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A great example of ID...and far less complex than the working inside a human cell, as shown in THIS ANIMATION.

and in Unlocking the Mystery of Life

Here is the Rube Goldberg machine...

In the EnterpriseBlog, Jay Richards comments on the story in the New York Times about the linking of climate change and evolution.

Richards opines...there are budding initiatives in state legislatures and boards of education to encourage or require balance in classroom discussions of global warming. The point of the piece, though, is to connect the teaching of evolution to the climate change debate:

Critics of the teaching of evolution in the nation's classrooms are gaining ground in some states by linking the issue to global warming, arguing that dissenting views on both scientific subjects should be taught in public schools.

Now when I read anything on the environment in the New York Times, I try to keep a couple of deconstructionist qualifiers running in the back of my head: "This is what the New York Times wants me to believe about the issue" and "What are they trying to accomplish with this piece?" I know it's cynical, but when it comes to environmental stories, I just don't trust New York Times reporters to keep it straight.

Some things they want to accomplish with this piece:

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A fossil that was celebrated last year as a possible "missing link" between humans and early primates is actually a forebearer of modern-day lemurs and lorises, according to two papers by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin, Duke University and the University of Chicago.

In an article now available online in the Journal of Human Evolution, four scientists present evidence that the 47-million-year-old Darwinius masillae is not a haplorhine primate like humans, apes and monkeys, as the 2009 research claimed.

They also note that the article on Darwinius published last year in the journal PLoS ONE ignores two decades of published research showing that similar fossils are actually strepsirrhines, the primate group that includes lemurs and lorises.

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Well known theologist, R.C. Sproul, interviewed Stephen Meyer, author of Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design, on philosophy, evolution, education, Intelligent Design, and more.

The GospelCoalition has the link. Scroll down to Justin Taylor's March 5 post.

Click HERE.

This debate was held at Indiana University.

Craig's analysis, as usual, was beautifully precise and accurate.

For the debate, click HERE.

The Israeli Education Ministry's chief scientist sparked a furor among environmental activists and scholars with remarks questioning the reliability of evolution and global warming theory. The comments from Dr. Gavriel Avital, the latest in a series of written and oral statements casting doubts on the fundamental tenets of modern science, led several environmentalists to call for his dismissal.

"If textbooks state explicitly that human beings' origins are to be found with monkeys, I would want students to pursue and grapple with other opinions. There are many people who don't believe the evolutionary account is correct," Avital said.

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There will be a showing of "Darwin's Dilemma" and a dessert, sponsored by Probe Ministries in the Dallas/Fort Worth area on Tuesday, February 23rd.

Details at this Web page

"I would never have predicted that an atheist would name a book about intelligent design as one of the top books of 2009, while another atheist would write a book defending intelligent design?" commented Dennis Wagner, ARN Executive Director, about the organization's Top Ten Darwin and Design Resource List for 2009. "This is a sign that open minds in the academic and scientific communities are beginning to take the evidence for intelligent design seriously," Wagner concluded. He was referring to the number one book on the list, Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design by Stephen Meyer and number three book Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design by Bradley Monton.

Kevin Wirth, ARN Director of Media Relations, pointed out that several other resources on the 2009 list show a growing international interest in intelligent design: "Hungarian scientists published an English version of their book, Nature's IQ, that documents over 100 irreducibly complex behaviors in nature, while a well-published British medical doctor documented his reservations about Darwinian evolution in the book Why Us? How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves."

An online version of the ARN Top 10 Darwin and Design stories for 2009 with hyperlinks to original news sources can be found at www.arn.org/top10.

"If you don't think viewpoint discrimination is alive and well in this country when it comes to Darwin's theory, then you must be living on another planet," said Dennis Wagner, announcing this year's Top Ten in Media News in the growing Darwin vs. design controversy. This year, top honors went to Texas and Louisiana for protecting students' and teachers' rights to examine and critique all sides of evolution and other controversial science issues.

"The theory of evolution has been elevated to the status of a sacred dogma in many parts of our modern culture" observed Dennis Wagner, ARN Executive Director. "Students, teachers and science professionals have suffered recrimination for challenging Darwin's theory, and political policies like those recently passed in Texas and Louisiana are now required to maintain academic freedom and freedom of speech. Critical thinking skills are key not only to the learning process, but more importantly to scientific progress," said Wagner.

Kevin Wirth, ARN Director of Media Relations, pointed out that several other stories on the 2009 Top Ten Media list indicate the growing need for this type of legislative protection: "Ben Stein was 'expelled' as the commencement speaker at the University of Vermont, Michael Behe was temporarily 'expelled' from Bloggingheads.tv, and the California Science Center censored the showing of a movie that was critical of Darwin’s theory. We thoroughly documented case after case of this type of viewpoint discrimination in the book Slaughter of the Dissidents and the list just keeps on growing."

An online version of the ARN Top 10 Darwin and Design stories for 2009 with hyperlinks to original news sources can be found at www.arn.org/top10.