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James-Michael Smith, reports in the Examiner, that University of Colorado Professor of Philosophy Bradley Monton has openly criticized the decision in the famous Dover case over Intelligent Design.

He has also argued that Intelligent Design is a valid form of philosophical and scientific inquiry that should be undertaken rather than dismissed.

He is also an Atheist.

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Animation Gives Unique Look Inside the Cell

A new short animated video, Journey Inside The Cell, launched this week which dramatically illustrates the evidence for intelligent design within DNA, as described in Stephen C. Meyer's book, Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design (HarperOne 2009).

The original animation by Light Productions reveals in intricate detail how the digital information in DNA directs protein synthesis inside the cell, revealing a world of molecular machines and nano-processors communicating digital information.

"This video is going to make things worse for critics of intelligent design," Dr. Meyer explains. "They will have more difficulty convincing the public that their eyes are deceiving them when the evidence for design literally unfolds before them in this animation."

Narrated by Stephen Meyer, the video is a brief tour of the molecular labyrinth, the cell's sophisticated information-processing system, which not only produces machines, but also reproduces itself. The three minute animated video is available for viewing online in the ARN Molecular Machine Museum. For public use copyright permissions, contact cscinfo@discovery.org.

Just another example of the power of Darwinism to slow down life science discoveries...

Natalie Angier, for the NY Times, reports that scientists have discovered that the spleen, long consigned to the B-list of abdominal organs and known as much for its metaphoric as its physiological value, plays a more important role in the body's defense system than anyone suspected.

Reporting in the current issue of the journal Science, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School describe studies showing that the spleen is a reservoir for huge numbers of immune cells called monocytes, and that in the event of a serious trauma to the body like a heart attack, gashing wound or microbial invasion, the spleen will disgorge those monocyte multitudes into the bloodstream to tackle the crisis.

"The parallel in military terms is a standing army," said Matthias Nahrendorf, an author of the report. "You don't want to have to recruit an entire fighting force from the ground up every time you need it."

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The final film in Illustra Media's long-planned Intelligent Design trilogy, Darwin's Dilemma, is scheduled for release September 15, 2009 and is currently available for pre-order at ARN at a special introductory price.

This documentary will examine what many consider to be the most powerful refutation of Darwinian evolution-the Cambrian fossil evidence. Charles Darwin realized that the fossil evidence did not support his theory of gradual, step-by-step evolutionary development. He hoped that future generations of scientists would make the discoveries necessary to validate his ideas. Today, after more than 150 years of exploration fossil evidence of slow, incremental biological change has yet to be excavated. Instead, we find a picture of the rapid appearance of fully developed, complex organisms during the outset of the Cambrian geological era. Organisms that embody almost all of the major animal body plans that exist today. This remarkable explosion of life is best explained by the existence of a transcendent intelligence.

Filmed on four continents, this fascinating documentary examines some of the most important fossil discoveries ever made... and, with them, a mystery deeper than Darwin ever imagined. The Cambrian explosion was actually an explosion of biological information: assembly instructions in DNA and embryonic blueprints that directed the development of the first complex animals...information that points unmistakably to foresight, purpose and intelligent design.

Darwin's Dilemma is a high-quality documentary that includes interviews with world-class paleontologists Simon Conway Morris and James Valentine, as well as leading intelligent design theorists and scientists Paul Nelson, Jonathan Wells, Stephen C. Meyer, Paul Chien, Doug Axe, and Richard Sternberg.

Several messages come through loud and clear in the documentary:

1. Paleontologists freely admit the Cambrian Explosion evidence presents a problem for Darwin's theory

2. The fantastic animations communicate visually the complexity of the Cambrian creatures

3. The complexity graphs shown make it abundantly clear that Darwin's predictions do not match the evidence and in fact the evidence is almost the complete opposite

4. The relative time frame of the biological big bang (2 minutes late in the 24 hour clock of earth history) make it virtually impossible for random mutations and natural selection to produce the complexity and information content found in the Cambrian in such a late and short time frame

5. Even Chinese scientists are turning against Darwin's theory based on the Cambrian Explosion evidence found in their own country (which is some of the best)

As with the first two Illustra Media ID documentaries, Unlocking the Mystery of Life and The Privileged Planet, Darwin's Dilemma is full of high quality animations to help the viewer visualize the amazing complexity and design of the Cambrian creatures. You can watch a trailer for Darwin's Dilemma is here.

Sean P. Harris, for the Austin Independent Examiner, reported that Governor Rick Perry announced his appointment of board member Gail Lowe to replace Don McLeroy as chairperson of the Texas State Board of Education. Gail Lowe is a Lampasas newspaper editor and has been a member of the State Board of Education since 2002. She is also a proponent of Intelligent Design.

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In the battle over how to teach evolution in public schools, Thomas Jefferson's demand for a "separation between church and state" has been cited countless times. Many argue that the controversial alternative to Darwinian evolution, intelligent design, is an exclusively religious idea and therefore cannot be discussed under the Constitution. By invoking Jefferson's principle of separation, many critics of intelligent design assume that this visionary Founding Father would agree with them. But would he?

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In the LA Times, Charlotte Allen gives her take on the New Atheists.

"My problem with atheists is their tiresome - and way old - insistence that they are being oppressed and their fixation with the fine points of Christianity. What - did their Sunday school teachers flog their behinds with a Bible when they were kids?"

"Read Dawkins, or Hitchens, or the works of fellow atheists Sam Harris ("The End of Faith") and Daniel Dennett ("Breaking the Spell"), or visit an atheist website or blog (there are zillions of them, bearing such titles as "God Is for Suckers," "God Is Imaginary" and "God Is Pretend"), and your eyes will glaze over as you peruse - again and again - the obsessively tiny range of topics around which atheists circle like water in a drain."

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Cornelius Hunter blogs on "Evolution Wins Out in Hong Kong Curriculum".

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Darwinists believe that all they need to do to dispatch with ID is to assert it is not science. They may think, "There...now that was easy." I suppose the historic sciences (forensic, SETI, etc.) are not science either. You can't have it both ways, yet they get away with it all the time.

Listen to Dr. Stephen C. Meyer's interview on the nationally syndicated Michael Medved Show. Meyer and Medved discuss the information revolution and the challenge it presents for Darwinism, as well as the argument for intelligent design from information.

Go to the ENV Web page to LISTEN...

In ENV...a science test given last month to thousands of teenagers in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. One question asked students to compare Darwinian evolutionary theories with Lamarckian evolutionary theory, the theory of intelligent design and Biblical creationism.

"Unlike creationism, intelligent design is an inference from scientific evidence, not a deduction from religious authority," countered Meyer. "Intelligent design proposes that certain features of the universe and life are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection."

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