| Jerry Pournelle weighs in on intelligent design Fri, 04 Jul 2008 |
| | Searching news.google.com for “intelligent design” I happened across a recent article by a favorite author of mine, Jerry Pournelle. Click here for his biography on Wikipedia. Jerry has written a lot of science fiction, and I quite enjoyed some of it, but that's not the writing of his that I liked the most. >>more>> |
| Former state science director sues over intelligent design e-mail Fri, 04 Jul 2008 |
| | I don't think she has a leg to stand on. The policy of her government employer was to remain neutral in any official capacity regarding the public controversy over evolution by chance vs. creation of life by design. The government should remain neutral on this subject by neither fostering or restricting differing beliefs >>more>> |
| Change the language to eliminate concepts of design? Thu, 03 Jul 2008 |
| | While reading Mike Gene's The Design Matrix: A Consilience of Clues, I also had the fun of encountering a letter from Richard Sever, of Cold Spring Harbor lab, to the journal Nature informing its editors that he wishes that his colleagues would “reduce confusion” by using the word “design” more intelligently. (Nature 454, 27 (3 >>more>> |
| Vivendi acquires Expelled home video rights Wed, 02 Jul 2008 |
| | Vivendi Entertainment acquires home video rights of Expelled
MUMBAI: Vivendi Entertainment has acquired home entertainment distribution rights to Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, produced by Premise Media. The announcement was made by Vivendi Entertainment president Tom O’Malley and Expelled executive producer John Sullivan.
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, starring journalist and actor Ben Stein, is an independent documentary film >>more>> |
| Global Warming as Mass Neurosis Wed, 02 Jul 2008 |
| | A great article in the WSJ about Global Warming. I really like this quote:
If even slight global cooling remains evidence of global warming, what isn't evidence of global warming? What we have here is a nonfalsifiable hypothesis, logically indistinguishable from claims for the existence of God. This doesn't mean God doesn't exist, or that >>more>> |
| [Off topic:] Feed the hungry and build your vocabulary Tue, 01 Jul 2008 |
| | Sorry if this is old news for some of you, but it was new news to me today: www.freerice.com (see also the wikipedia article on it here).
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| Understanding Intelligent Design ? now available at Amazon.com! Mon, 30 Jun 2008 |
| | Understanding Intelligent Design: Everything You Need to Know in Plain Language, which I coauthored with Sean McDowell, and for which his father Josh McDowell wrote a bang-up foreword, is now available at Amazon.com (click here).
The book is geared at Christian young people (junior high and high schoolers) as well as for Church groups (e.g., >>more>> |
| Biological Neg-Entropy Sun, 29 Jun 2008 |
| | Some of you might have heard that Jonathan Schaeffer and his team at the U. of Alberta recently solved the game of checkers. It made big news in the computer science world.
I first met Jon at the First Computer Olympiad in London (organized by the famous David Levy of chess and computer-chess fame) at which >>more>> |
| Expelled: Why are Americans allowed to care so much about freedom?, and other thoughts Sat, 28 Jun 2008 |
| | Two nights ago, I finally saw the Expelled film.
I had become almost proprietorial about the widely denounced #5 political documentary. I had first broken the story of its existence last August. I watched it pitch and roll through accusations of trickery, a threatened lawsuit over plagiarism and a real one over intellectual property, production delays >>more>> |
| Zillions of Universes Fri, 27 Jun 2008 |
| | I am completely envious and I, like, totally admit it. This guy Steve Burri (one of the fellows in this picture) is way better than me when it comes to sending up goofy “zillions of universes” cosmology:
The scientists and researchers employed in my secret basement laboratory are quite an ecclectic bunch. We have staff that >>more>> |
