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Intelligent design news from the 14th of April to the 20th of April, 2011.
Another week, another lot of ID blog posts to wade through. Not a lot I want to mention in this intro, particularly, except for perhaps this recent post of mine responding to an Uncommon Descent post about ID’s supposed scientific predictions. It was going to be included in this post, but it needed a larger amount of specific attention, given how important the topic is.
Other than that, this week wasn’t particularly noteworthy. Nothing [...]
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October 21st, 2010 | Category: intelligent designI’ve been trying to lay out some easy-to-understand reasons why intelligent design, the latest cultural incarnation of US creationism, is an unscientific idea, the most recent of which was presented in The Curious Case of the Designer’s Bad Design, a post where I explained the inherent contradiction in positing that ID predicts optimal, or “good”, design, but simultaneously allows for suboptimal, or “bad”, design – a mistake often made, consciously or not, by the members of the Discovery Institute, the world’s largest and most influential ID think tank.
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October 7th, 2010 | Category: intelligent designYou hear it a lot, the claim that bad design is evidence against intelligent design. Jerry Coyne and Richard Dawkins, two of the most well-known educators about evolutionary biology, regularly mention it in their books and other writings, and so do numerous other defenders of evolution, striking back at the apparently growing intelligent design (ID) movement that is threatening science education in the US and across the globe.
The argument from bad design is as follows. If life were designed by an intelligence, particularly a supernatural intelligence, organisms wouldn’t be [...]
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Intelligent design news from the 29th of September to the 5th of October, 2010.
Another week, another round of blog posts by intelligent design proponents. Much like last week, it’s more of the same – in fact, the ID movement revolves around a series of patterns that someone can easily identify if they have spent time sussing them out. One common pattern starts off with the “Scientific Study X supports ID because it goes against a tenant of ‘Darwinism’ that we have arbitrary defined as necessary for its continuation as [...]
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September 28th, 2010 | Category: this week in intelligent designIntelligent design news from the 22nd of September to the 28th of September, 2010.
What can I say, this week was particularly poor in memorable pieces of writing from the major pro-ID blogs. We received a generic “this is too complex to have evolved, ergo ID” post, a typical “the Darwinian establishment is silencing us” post, and a bland “there are scientists who we can misrepresent to further our cause” post. Nothing ground-breaking, just the standard fare.
I suppose you take what you get and you don’t complain. Much.
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Intelligent design news from the 6th of July to the 12th of July, 2010.
Again, another week of minimal activity from the Discovery Institute and friends! Will this be a lasting trend? Oh please, non-deity Charles Darwin, please let this be a lasting trend.
To start with (in a not-very-newsworthy kind of way), Kevin Wirth never finished his “conversation” with me about Dr. Caroline Crocker and her new book Free to Think in the comments of last week’s This Week in Intelligent Design. I’ll tentatively put that [...]
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Intelligent design news from the 22nd of June to the 28th of June, 2010.
Jonathan McLatchie, a relatively new author on Evolution News & Views, wrote about junk DNA, and how the concept is supposedly taking “more heavy blows” because of a new function for some mRNA molecules:
A paper has just been published in Nature which uncovers a host of new coding-independent functions for pseudogene mRNAs, including a role in tumor regulation. More exciting is that Poliseno et al. describe an entirely new regulatory [...]
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Intelligent design news from the 15th of June to the 21st of June, 2010.
Finally, a new This Week in Intelligent Design! As of last Friday, my exams were all finished for this semester, so now it’s officially Party Time. However, my version of Party Time involves more reading of both intelligent design-related blogs and books about evolutionary biology than others’ would, so you’re unlikely to see me passed out in a bar any time soon. Unless of course I saw Stephen C. Meyer in the bar and decided [...]
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Intelligent design news from the 11th of May to the 17th of May, 2010.
Robert Crowther, on Evolution News & Views, gave us a brilliant piece of writing about Josh Rosenau’s alleged quote-mining of Camille Paglia:
Not the NCSE’s Josh Rosenau. His selective quote mining of her comments meant to imply the exact opposite is Orwellian. To make matters worse he really twists things up when attempts to paint those who champion critical thinking on evolution as postmodern Marxists.
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Homologous Legs is the blog of Jack Scanlan, an Australian biology student who has a serious problem with creationists, intelligent design proponents and anyone else who misrepresents evolutionary biology or science in general.
He uses this blog to post news about the intelligent design/evolution "war", science communication in biology and chemistry, and mostly coherent thoughts from his scattered, music-loving brain. Contact
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