Archives for: December 2005, 17

12/17/05

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Is String Theory is Trouble?

Amanda Gefter, on NewScientist.com, gets into the mind of Leonard Susskind. He is the Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics at Stanford University in California. His new book is titled Cosmic Landscape: String theory and the illusion of intelligent design.

It is an interesting Q & A session on string theory and the naturalistic scientist's grappling with origins. He admits that multiverse theory is unfalsifiably, but will not give an inch to ID.

The last question and paragraph are telling:

"If we do not accept the landscape idea are we stuck with intelligent design"?

"I doubt that physicists will see it that way. If, for some unforeseen reason, the landscape turns out to be inconsistent - maybe for mathematical reasons, or because it disagrees with observation - I am pretty sure that physicists will go on searching for natural explanations of the world. But I have to say that if that happens, as things stand now we will be in a very awkward position. Without any explanation of nature's fine-tunings we will be hard pressed to answer the ID critics. One might argue that the hope that a mathematically unique solution will emerge is as faith-based as ID."

Sorry Dr., but it would be much more faith-based than what ID is really about.

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Permalinkby 08:15:36 am, Categories: Books/Videos/Reviews, 47 words   English (US)

Appeals Panel Criticizes Evolution Sticker Ruling in Georgia

Ellen Berry, writer for the LA Times, reports on the Cobb County Georgia book sticker ruling.

A federal appeals court panel appeared sharply critical Thursday of a ruling this year that ordered the removal of stickers in science textbooks stating, "Evolution is a theory, not a fact."

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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.

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    Complete zipped downloadable pdf copy of David Stove's devastating, and yet hard-to-find, critique of neo-Darwinism entitled "Darwinian Fairytales"

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    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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