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jeffrey p. schloss a former senior fellow at the antievolution discovery institute has raised the ire of his exassociates by breaking from the idcreationist line the evolution of jeffrey p. schloss. in august 2003 jeffrey schloss left the discovery institute. what happened in 2005 schloss spoke out in a public interview published in the sacramento beethen schloss realized that unless peop...
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quality education wins again in the california creationist case......
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talk show host and recent senior discovery institute fellow michael medved apparently november last year is so recent hes not even listed on the di website yeta has publicly announced what everybody already knew intelligent design is neither a theory nor an explanation.q. speaking of your desire for this kind of particularity you are a senior fellow at the discovery institute that studies and beli...
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methodological naturalism. big word. heres what it means consider the theory of gravity. an apple unsupported by tree or table falls. that is what it does. and it seems to do it every time. hold an apple in the air let go it falls. it falls once it falls twice it falls a million times. and by that method every time we test the theory of gravity it holds. so eventually we come to the tentative conc...
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the history channel evolves......
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american and turkish creationism......
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snake segmentation life has two contradictory properties that any theory explaining its origin must encompass similarities everywhere and differences separating species. so far the only theory that covers both beautifully and explains how one is the consequence of the other is evolution. common descent unites all life on earth while evolution itself is about constant change similarities are rooted...
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i initially read this about 10 days ago on one of the conservative blogs i read along with the progressive ones littlegreenfootballs. lgf being what it is i noted it and waited to hear more about it from other sources. in his post charles had quoted from reutersedis doubted the rumors of funds from u.s. creationists saying american creationists i talk to basically envy harun yahyas financial resou...
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i recently spent a few days at the home of some of my dearest friends on earth who happen to be creationists. i really tried to avoid the topic but inevitably it came up. one thing that came out of the intense but still respectful and friendly conversation was the recommendation that i check out the website of come reason ministries which is done by their friend lenny esposito. lenny has a few ar...
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these are adorable this one for pz. this one for amanda and the thumb crew. my kids are getting one each right now read the comments on this post.........
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massimo pigliucci has posted the notes parts 1 2 and 3 from the altenberg meeting that was unfortunately overhyped by the creationist crowd no blame for that attaches to the organizers of this meeting. it sounds like it was a phenomenally interesting meeting that was full of interesting ideas but from these notes it was also clearly a rather speculative meeting not one that was trying to consolid...
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luskin has lost it on altenberg needless to say you can read luskins post and whatever his other failings he manages to give a pretty fair depiction of mazur and the alternberg news. mistake strewn applies to most critiques at pandas thumb. meanwhile mazur did a good job of eliciting the behind the scenes action in the paradigm and as for pibliucci we should know a liar when we see one no more......
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like many other blogsawe here at biomedicine on displayahave a long list ofapotentially useful life science and healthmedical blog linksall those sites which together constitute the hypertextual inspiration base foraour web presence. it would be great if these could be visualised as a blogroll cloud like a tag cloud or a category cloud. so far i havent seen oneabut last night whenai was playingawi...
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nick matzke wrote an excellent update on what we know about the origin of life here is a short list of things we have discovered or confirmed in the last 50 years or so pertaining to the origin of life. in my opinion all of these points have reached high enough confidence that they are unlikely to change much with future discoveries and our confidence in them does not depend in uncertainties in...
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ive always had my own ideas on who i felt and i use the word feel very deliberately here was stupid and who intelligent. people scientists and laymen alike have always discussed what intellgence is and if iq has any bearing on it. it always occurred to me that the definition of intelligence apparently was something nobody seemed to be able to agree upon and most definitions i have heard or read di...
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nick matzke has a fine summary of progress in research into abiogenesis. he chastises those people who try to argue that abiogenesis is independent of evolution or that you can get out of trying to answer the question of where life came from by simply saying that that isnt evolution. it is ive said it myself and i really wish people would stop trying weasel out of that question by punting it off t...
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what critics of critics of neocreationists get wrong a reply to gordy slack the pandas thumb here is a short list of things we have discovered or confirmed in the last 50 years or so about the origin of life. in my opinion all of these points have reached high enough confidence that they are unlikely to change much with future discoveries despite the title more interesting for the stuff about the...
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ventastega the paleontologists are going too far. this is getting ridiculous. they keep digging up these collections of bones that illuminate tetrapod origins and they keep making finer and finer distinctions. on one earlier side we have a bunch of tetrapodlike fish tiktaalik and panderichthys for instance and on the later side we have fishlike tetrapods such as acanthostega and ichthyostega. no...
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the strange thing about e. coli as i explain in my book microcosm is that it has played a central part not just in the modern science of life but in the political conflicts over life. it may come as a surprise that a humble gut germ could get involved in culture wars. but you need only consider how much attention creationists have been lavishing on e. coli in recent years hoping to use it as evide...
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a post on the pandas thumb today calls attention to this post from uncommon descent which claims that theistic evolutionists must believe contradictory things i would not have a problem understanding evolution as gods creation tool if tes conceived of evolution as a tool in the strict sense. a tool in the strict sense is fully in the control of .........
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so i hear via the pandas thumb that uncommon descent has a new poster. and hes off to a rollicking good start with a post explaining why christians who accept the fact of evolution are incoherent and deluded. as usual i dont link to ud due to their rampant dishonesty in silently altering or removing links. i am perhaps not the best person to respond to his claim given that im not a christ...
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so i hear via the pandas thumb that uncommon descent has a new poster. and hes off to a rollicking good start with a post explaining why christians who accept the fact of evolution are incoherent and deluded. as usual i dont link to ud due to their rampant dishonesty in silently altering or removing links. i am perhaps not the best person to respond to his claim given that im not a christ...
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many of you probably followed the 2005 kitzmiller vs. dover trial in dover pennsylvania closely. from its early days with daily updates at the pandas thumb to the publication of the rulingkitzmas in late december the trial was filled with drama and moments right out of the movies. from the defendants remarkable lying on the stand to behes admission that his definition of a scientific theory incl...
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fundamentalist zealotry and creationist ideology may have conspired to leave at least one and possibly more public school students with permanent physical and mental scars at the hands of what can only be described as a dangerous rogue teacher ed brayton a science teacher used a high voltage device to burn that cross into an 8th graders arm for crying out loud. not only should he have been fired...
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