| Monotropa uniflora Tue, 22 Jul 2008 |
| | This is off topic. Specifically botany and mycology. I thought some readers might find it of interest.
I'm vacationing for the summer up north, it's been wet and warm, perfect for mushrooms so this morning my daughter and I went walking through some woods and fields looking for mushrooms. I really wanted to get >>more>> |
| PZ Myers and Abbie Smith - An Hour of No Cursing! Mon, 21 Jul 2008 |
| | PZ Myers and Abbie Smith have an hour-long video conference here. A few surprising things, not the least of which is neither of them thought to bolster their points with the cussing that characterizes their blogs.
Anyhow, the first 15 minutes they talk about epigenetics, the Altenberg 16 conference, Susan Mazur, and try to downplay >>more>> |
| No Smoking Hot Spot Mon, 21 Jul 2008 |
| | I've been saying for a long time that the computer climate model predictions don't match up to actual observations. The global warming hysterics have been in denial trying to find faults with the observations instead of admitting the plain truth that the models are flawed. Here's an article by an Australian climate researcher >>more>> |
| Michael Shermer Misrepresents Intelligent Design in Canadian Newspaper Mon, 21 Jul 2008 |
| | In the July 9 edition of The Ottawa Citizen, Michael Shermer published an attack on aspects of Intelligent Design. The article, with comments from readers, can be found at:
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/views/story.html?id=711a0b47-29d5-426d-a273-a270817b000e&p=1
Shermer’s attack was brought on by a comment of Rabbi Reuven Bulka, published in the Citizen on July 7. Bulka had written:
“By the way, for the record, >>more>> |
| Evolution Disclaimer Sun, 20 Jul 2008 |
| | Here's the closing disclaimer on a GodTube video about evolution (hat tip to bornagain77):
Copyright © 2008 Uncommon Descent. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@www.uncommondescent.com so we can take >>more>> |
| Faith and Reason in the OOL Context Sun, 20 Jul 2008 |
| | Paul Giem's comment to my Faith and Reason post below is so good, I thought it deserved its own post. Read on to see how Paul demonstrates decisively that in the origin of life context (OOL) the materialists' faith commitment is the sort of blind-leap-in-the-dark-in-the-teeth-of-the-evidence stretch of which they delight in accusing theists of making.
Paul is >>more>> |
| Olivia Judson: ?Let?s not call what we?re doing ?Darwinism?.? Sat, 19 Jul 2008 |
| | Olivia Judson is on a mission to control the damage to Darwin's hemorrhaging theory. Her latest at the NYTimes is to suggest that we stop using the term “Darwinism” because the field of evolutionary biology is so much richer than what Darwin gave us. Others have tried that strategy with equal laughable disingenuity (e.g., Paul >>more>> |
| I am a machine. No, I am a tree. Here?s the problem with analogy ? Sat, 19 Jul 2008 |
| | A friend writes to say that nonsensical materialism is now being marketed to engineers, via IEEE, the largest professional engineering society in the world, with over 365 000 members.
This article, “I, Rodney Brooks, am a robot”, appeared in the IEEE Spectrum which is the magazine that goes to all members:
I am a machine. So are >>more>> |
| PeerGate review scandal at American Physical Society Sat, 19 Jul 2008 |
| | The American Physical Society alleged that Lord Monckton's paper Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered was not peer reviewed when Monckton in fact thoroughly revised his paper in response to APS peer review. Monckton immediately demanded retraction, accountability and an apology.
The Editor of the American Physical Society's Forum on Physics and Society launched a debate on global warming, >>more>> |
| Antony Flew reviews ? and rips ? Dawkins? THE GOD DELUSION Sat, 19 Jul 2008 |
| | Antony Flew, formerly the most prominent atheist in the English speaking world, goes after Dawkins, his successor as head atheist:
The God Delusion by the atheist writer Richard Dawkins, is remarkable in the first place for having achieved some sort of record by selling over a million copies. But what is much more remarkable than that >>more>> |
