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Intelligent design theory argues for a designer of life
An article in the Kansas City Star by By Bill Tammeus and Alan Bavley gives a fairly balanced look at the ID - Darwinism controversy, which will heat up in Kansas this week.
This is good reading, because it shows the kind of rhetoric that Darwinists come up with when trying to discredit ID. One example is saying that "there is no such thing as irreducible complexity." Just dismiss the well thought out concept, and it becomes a phantom.
Another example of the rhetoric is saying that just because we don't have a naturalistic explanation for specified complexity doesn't mean we won't find one in the future. This is a tacit admission that scientific materialism does not "have the goods." Of course they know that they WILL find the naturalistic explanation in the future because there is no other option; an intelligent designer couldn't possibly exist, and believing that one does exist would be "religion" and not science.
For the full article, click HERE.
Evolutionary war - Michael Ruse
In the ongoing struggle between evolution and creationism, says philosopher of science Michael Ruse, Darwinians may be their own worst enemy. Peter Dizikes reports on the thoughts of Ruse in the Boston Globe.
Ruse tend to be more honest about the conflict, describing it as not a battle between science and faith, but rather between two competing worldviews; science vs science if you will.
For the full article, click HERE.
Kansas debate - weigh in
Dr. William A. Dembski gives sound advice for how you can help in the upcoming discussions in Kansas on his weblog Uncommon Descent.
For the full opinion, click HERE.
Gull Lake School District responds to threatened lawsuit over evolution teaching
AP reports in the Detroit Free Press that Gull Lake Community Schools will continue with its ongoing evaluation of how to teach evolution theory regardless of a threatened lawsuit.
A Christian-oriented law center has said it may sue the district unless two teachers are allowed to include intelligent design in their classes.
Lisa Swem, an attorney for the school district said, "The process will continue..."Public school classrooms should not be battlegrounds for political ideology."
The tactic used is to just say the words "political ideology". Then ID can just be brushed aside. There...that takes care of it.
For the full article, click HERE.
Evolution debate turns into debate over intelligent design
The hearings before the Kansas State Board of Education are days away.
A three-member board subcommittee plans hearings May 5-7 and 12-14, and intelligent design, or "ID," advocates expect nearly two dozen witnesses to critique evolution. National and state science groups are boycotting, viewing the hearings as rigged against evolution.
This seems to be a common tactic: dis your opponents so as to make them look inconsequential.
For the full article written by John Hanna of AP in the Kansas City Star, click HERE.
How to deal with Intelligent Design??
An article in Nature magazine gives tips for how to handle the ID controversy that is growing with every passing day.
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We are a group of individuals, coming from diverse backgrounds and not speaking for any organization, who have found common ground around teleological concepts, including intelligent design. We think these concepts have real potential to generate insights about our reality that are being drowned out by political advocacy from both sides. We hope this blog will provide a small voice that helps rectify this situation.
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Website dedicated to comparing scenes from the "Inherit the Wind" movie with factual information from actual Scopes Trial. View 37 clips from the movie and decide for yourself if this movie is more fact or fiction.
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Australian biologist Stephen E. Jones maintains one of the best origins "quote" databases around. He is meticulous about accuracy and working from original sources.
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Most guys going through midlife crisis buy a convertible. Austrialian Stephen E. Jones went back to college to get a biology degree and is now a proponent of ID and common ancestry.
- Darwinian Fairytales by David Stove
Complete zipped downloadable pdf copy of David Stove's devastating, and yet hard-to-find, critique of neo-Darwinism entitled "Darwinian Fairytales"
- ID The Future
Intelligent Design The Future is a multiple contributor weblog whose participants include the nation's leading design scientists and theorists: biochemist Michael Behe, mathematician William Dembski, astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez, philosophers of science Stephen Meyer, and Jay Richards, philosopher of biology Paul Nelson, molecular biologist Jonathan Wells, and science writer Jonathan Witt. Posts will focus primarily on the intellectual issues at stake in the debate over intelligent design, rather than its implications for education or public policy.
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A Philosopher's Journey: Political and cultural reflections of John Mark N. Reynolds. Dr. Reynolds is Director of the Torrey Honors Institute at
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