design

We've had a spate of articles in my local newspaper recently on the topic of Intelligent Design. The following letter to the editor was published in today's paper: I e-mailed Mr. Russo and provided him with several critiques of Michael Behe's book...

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I just free-associated this, and I throw it out for criticism: What if we try to contaminate the Intelligent Design meme by reframing it as the claim that the prototype human body came out of some one or some thing's laboratory through a process of invention and engineering, like in Mary...

Harold Evans, a former editor of The Times and The Sunday Times (see his wikipedia entry) has a weekly opinion column on BBC Radio 4 - Friday's piece was on Bush, science and intelligent design and is rather good. It's available online via this page (under Point of View, A).

The Sunday Telegraph this week included this article by Christopher Booker (see Talking with Dinosaurs): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/07/nbook07.xml I have submitted the following repost. I t would be great if we could get some more responses to that article -...

There is a move afoot to Google Bomb Intelligent Design so that the National Center for Science Education’s "Intelligent Design" Not Accepted by Most Scientists paper comes on top (or at least high up) on Google searches: Link: In summary, if you have a blog or website, link to the NCSE’s...

Hi. This is part of something I'm writing, which explains why I keep mentioning what "we" have discussed when we haven't. I thought that maybe some of you would like to shoot me down. Comments, please? _____________________________________ Nowadays, when the words "Intelligent Design" are a...

Don't try to understand this. It is beyond your puny intellect. http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Publications/ZooGoer/1995/3/sexandthespottedhyena.cfm OUCH!!! :eek: BTW, I've just read about this in Armand Marie Leroi's book "Mutants". Brilliant book!

Nice article in New Yorker covering Behe and Dembski. A good, concise read covering the basis of ID. Worthy of passing on.

…and other sciences. Checkout The rediscovery Institute Hilarious site. Check out their revised periodic table: Especially, check out their ”Take Action” page. Click on the links, copy their pro-forma emails, and send emails to a number of creationist idiots.

If I understand the ID theory correctly then, according to this theory an entity designed and build the tapeworm and all the other parasitic worms etc that plague mankind and other species. Is that correct?

Someone on another board posted this link: http://www.idthefuture.com/index.php?title=the_truth_about_how_i_got_into_id ...which appears to be pretty damning on the reasons that William Dembski came up with the Intelligent Design idea. Are there any independent confirmations of this, or is it...

I did a search on the forum for the word 'Avida' and did not find a match. A discussion of the implications of this evolution modeling program might be worthwhile. http://dllab.caltech.edu/avida/ The site includes links to downloads. The February 'Discover Magazine' has an article titled...

Well, it seems that the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (bastion of unbiased academic learning that it is) is getting a new class on Intelligent Design added to its curriculum as well as a new department, the Center for Science and Theology. Catholic-turned-Baptist William Dembski, known...

I was having a chat on Christian message board about evolution. They said: To note on intelligent design....question. If any evolutionists in here stumbled upon a TV in the woods, what would be the first impression that comes to your mind? Would it be that the TV came about by millions of...

I came across this gem on a google search. It's no immortality rings or timecube, but it's strange: http://net.info.nl/ra/ I have no idea what those drawings are supposed to indicate.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...9-2004Dec6.html Great... this ought to keep America a global science power... This is a Washington Post article about efforts to bring the teaching of Inteligent Design to St. Charles County, MD.... May require registration to view...sorry about that.

If anyone is interested in a fairly lively discussion of evolution vs. ID, I'm busy over at this Yahoo! forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CreationEvolutionDesign/ I'm having a good time, at least until I run out of energy banging my head against the wall. Unfortunately, Yahoo! forum...

Yep, now public schools are REQUIRED to teach Intelligent Design. This is disguisting and immoral. DOVER, Pa. Nov 12, 2004 — When talk at the high school here turns to evolution, biology teachers have to make time for Charles Darwin as well as his detractors. With a vote last month, the...

So what is it about all these artificial limbs, artificial joints, pace-makers, hearing aids, eye correction devices and what not? Is it because man thinks he's capable of improving on the original design? In other words whose design exactly, does he think he's trying to improve upon? Obviously...

Everything is related to the design of the whole. Without the whole, there would be no design. For example, what purpose would a finger serve, isolated and detached, and at one point was not attached to a living body? Therefore the finger serves as part of the overall design of the whole, just...

In my todays Sunday 4-25 newspaper's insert called "SmartSource Magazine" (one of those several page coupon clip-out thingies), there was a full page ad in there (opposite the full page ad for Oreck vacuum cleaners) about this revolutionary new driver. It is called "The Hammer". Ya gotta love...

Folks The article linked below has been mentioned on the Bad Astronomy Bulletin Board. http://www.dradio.de/meldungen/forschak/255820/ It's in German, but apparently suggests that there are plans to replace evolution with intelligent design in the curriculum in Italy. Has this been raised...

I'm very disappointed, and I hope this is either reversed or revised. New Evolution Cirriculum Approved :( :( :(

What is Intelligent Design? Is it possible to acknowledge that Goddidit and acknowledge the merits of evolution as well? I think so. Of course I don't think we're speaking of the same Intelligent Design as the Creationists, if in fact that entails taking the Bible too literally. What do you think?

What if scientists discovered that the simplest laws of our universe rely on a certain number of variables. They somehow find out that these variables are not dependent on anything and that if they were barely changed then our universe could not produce life. These scientists were also, some...

Last night I caught the last half hour of Unlocking the Mystery of Life on PBS. The 30 minutes I saw was completely one-sided in favor of ID, so I was wondering if there was any balance in the first half. Then I went to TV guide on-line so I made sure I had the right title for a post, and...

Since Steve Grenard has provided what he thinks is an experiment to test mediums in this topic., why don't we skeptics design one as well? I don't think we have ever really done that here. We have a lot of bright minds here. I would very much like to see us take a crack at it. I have never...