In the News
Archives for: October 2007, 18
10/18/07
O'Leary class at University of Toronto
Six evening sessions at Carr Hall, 100 St Joseph's Street, at the University of Toronto, over six Tuesdays, Oct. 23 - Nov. 27 2007, 7 - 9 p.m.
More info: 416) 926-7254 or continuinged.stmikes@utoronto.ca) Register by phone here: Phone: (416) 926-7254. Payment by VISA or MasterCard only.
Session 1. The Big Bang: Blowing up a safe, tidy cosmology Tuesday
October 23, 2007
Guest: Robb Mann, chair of physics, University of Waterloo. He asks - could there be other universes? Can we know? What difference would it make?
Session 2. From molecules to man: How did it happen? Tuesday
October 30, 2007
Guest: Don Wallar, director of the Biosimilars Program with a large Canadian-based pharmaceutical company, explains why life's origin is such a difficult problem.
Session 3. Creationists: Are they crazy or what? Tuesday November
6, 2007
Guest tba Creationism (young earth or six-day) originated in the
United States post-World War II. It has now spread to the European Union, which regards it as a serious threat. Why? How?
Session 4. Intelligent design: What the ID proponents actually say
(and don't say) Tuesday November 13, 2007
Guest: Kirk Durston, biophysics PhD candidate at the University of Guelph.
Michael Behe, author of Edge of Evolution (2007), sees actual design where, for example, Richard Dawkins, author of The Blind Watchmaker, sees the illusion of design. Who's right? Are they both wrong?
Session 5. The universe: Bottom up or top down? Tuesday November
20, 2007
Either mind comes from matter or matter from mind. What difference does either view make to our understanding of consciousness and free will.
Guest: Kirk Durston, biophysics PhD candidate at the University of Guelph.
Session 6. Why media routinely flub key events in the controversy
Tuesday November 27, 2007
In the News
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| << < | > >> | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
| 29 | 30 | 31 | ||||
Search
Categories
Archives
- July 2013 (2)
- June 2013 (9)
- May 2013 (5)
- February 2013 (8)
- January 2013 (13)
- December 2012 (5)
- November 2012 (13)
- September 2012 (1)
- August 2012 (1)
- May 2012 (1)
- March 2012 (4)
- February 2012 (5)
- more...
Linkblog
Links - Groups and Organizations
- Access Research Network
- Discovery Institute
- Evolution News Blog
Evolution has become a favorite topic of the news media recently, but for some reason, they never seem to get the story straight. The staff at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture started this Blog to set the record straight and make sure you knew "the rest of the story".
- Intelligent Design Network (IDNet)
- Intelligent Design Undergraduate Research Center
- Intelligent Reasoning
A blogger from New England offers his intelligent reasoning.
- International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design (ISCID)
- Telic Thoughts
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.
- The Design Inference - The Writings of William A. Dembski
- The Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness Center (IDEA)
- www.themonkeytrial.com
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.
Links - Of General Interest
- A Brief View of Time and Those That Live There
Don Cicchetti blogs on: Culture, Music, Faith, Intelligent Design, Guitar, Audio
- A Quick Guide to Sequenced Genomes
- ARN Related Web Links
- 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.
- CreationEvolutionDesign
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.
- John Mark Reynolds Blog
A Philosopher's Journey: Political and cultural reflections of John Mark N. Reynolds. Dr. Reynolds is Director of the Torrey Honors Institute at
Biola University.
- NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
Misc
Syndicate this blog 
What is RSS?
powered by
Original template design by François PLANQUE.
