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12/08/06

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An Exercise in Contempt - A Review of "The God Delusion"

In the American Spectator, Richard Kirk reviews The God Delusion. According to Kirk, the book features page after sarcastic page of attacks against any foe Dawkins considers an easy target: Pat Robertson, Pastor Ted Haggard, Ann Coulter, a small fundamentalist school in Northeast England (to which 7 of Dawkins' 374 pages are devoted), Pastor Fred "God Hates Fags" Phelps, Dr. James Dobson, and, of course, G. W. Bush - who supposedly invaded Iraq because he was told to do so by God. Even poor Carl Jung is made into a kook by Dawkins for believing "that particular books on his shelf spontaneously exploded."

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Permalinkby 08:19:24 pm, Categories: Education, 50 words   English (US)

Growing political pressure for Truth in Science in UK

Truth in Science is faced by growing political opposition as Members of Parliament and Government ministers seek to discourage science teachers from using their resource packs. Forty MPs are calling for a "restriction" on its use and one has suggested a "directive" against it.

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Permalinkby 08:12:47 pm, Categories: Education, 91 words   English (US)

Evolution, 'design' are still hot topics in Utah

Jennifer Toomer-Cook of the Deseret News reports on the meeting of Darwinism and ID in Utah.

Intelligent Design was debated on two Utah college campuses last week. And a Utah senator says while he won't carry another origins of life bill, something else could be in the works.

Biological philosopher Paul Nelson of the Discovery Institute, in a Utah Valley State College panel discussion last week, said that while not yet a scientific theory, Intelligent Design may gain legitimacy in the scientific community to explain origins of Earth and its inhabitants.

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Behe speaks for intelligent design

David Toplikar, of the Lawrence Journal-World reports on the lecture by Michael Behe, titled "The Argument for Intelligent Design in Biology". It was part of the "Difficult Dialogues" lecture series sponsored by KU's Hall Center for the Humanities and KU's Biodiversity Institute.

He said intelligent design was not a philosophy, but a scientific conclusion that uses inductive reasoning.

"An inductive conclusion is a scientific conclusion," he said.

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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.

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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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