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08/09/07

Permalinkby 09:38:41 pm, Categories: Science, 31 words   English (US)

Amazing ant...

The trap-jaw ant moves its jaws at an amazing 145 mph, the fastest physical movement of any living creature.

Ain't natural selection wonderful?

See a movie on the ant, by clicking HERE.

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Permalinkby 09:35:35 pm, Categories: Education, 112 words   English (US)

Man of Science, Man of Faith

Jeff Jacoby, on Aish.com, writes:

"Have you heard about the religious fundamentalist who wanted to teach physics at Cambridge? This would-be instructor wasn't simply a Christian; he was so preoccupied with biblical prophecy that he wrote a book titled Observations on the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John. Based on his reading of Daniel, in fact, he forecast the date of the Apocalypse: no earlier than 2060. He also calculated the year the world was created. When Genesis 1:1 says "In the beginning," he determined, it means 3988 BC."

"Not many modern universities are prepared to employ a science professor who espouses not merely "intelligent design" but out-and-out divine creation."

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Permalinkby 09:30:55 pm, Categories: Education, 55 words   English (US)

Understanding evolution is crucial to debate

Sally Lehrman, in the Boston Globe, mentions that "intelligent design proponents claim that schools should do a better job of explaining evolution. They may very well be right. While people who believe in the scientific method do not accept the antievolution lobby's claim of 'irreducible complexity,' are they prepared with a coherent response?"

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    Don Cicchetti blogs on: Culture, Music, Faith, Intelligent Design, Guitar, Audio

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  • Creation/Evolution Quotes

    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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  • 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"

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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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    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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