A fellow commented in my last blog and gave a link for: Intelligent Design The Future On it is an article (sort of) regarding the NCSE – National Center for Science Education First of all I have to thank “ID the Future” for making me aware of this organization I hadn’t heard of before. It [...]
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Evolution May Create God?
An example of how the Bombadier Beetle evolved. One of the examples proponents of Creationism/Intelligent Design/Irreduceable Complexity use, is the Bombadier Beetle. Stating the way in which it uses exploding gas generated in its body for defense MUST have been designed by a deity. In fact, the beetle, as well as every irreducebly complex process [...]
READ MORE »The St. Louis Arch as Proof of Creationism
A most fascinating and revealing two-page PDF which does an excelent job of showing how Intelligent Design and Irreduceable Complexity fail as scientific concepts, and are also harmful in a theological area as well! A Word About Intelligent Design Creationism It’s very straight-forward, simple, and not at all overtly insulting…three concepts I have yet to [...]
READ MORE »God’s Too Stupid to be Complex?!
So the basis of the neo-Creationism movement, “Intelligent Design (ID),” is that the universe is so complex it could only have been created by God. OK, I have a question. It’s a serious question, containing an insult, sure…but I ask anyone who believes in ID to consider the question part seriously: By believing in ID [...]
READ MORE »It’s The Opposite of What The Religious Reich Would Have You Believe
http://thislife.org/ They use frames, dangit, so I can’t link the page directly. But go into the archives, and listen to show: “Godless America; aired 6/3/05 — Episode 290″ There’s an excellent interview with a fellow who explains how until the Cold War, even evangelical Christian politicians staunchly kept religion completely out of politics. Then during [...]
READ MORE »If You Can’t Beat Them – Redefine Them!
I don’t think I’ve blogged this yet. Kansas Board of Education is entertaining a proposal to change the definition of “science”: http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/05/15/kansas.evolution.ap/index.html From the article: Advocates of “intelligent design” are pushing the board to reject a definition limiting science to natural explanations for what’s observed in the world. Instead, they want to define it as [...]
READ MORE »Papieren, Bitte – From Someone Who Knows!
You wonder, what all did so many people in Germany in the early and mid-1930′s see that caused them to flee the country before they were finally prevented from leaving? What writings on the walls did they see that so many people ignored? When Einstein fled Germany, was it because the Nationalist Party forced the [...]
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