Science

Do Scientists Promote Darwinism?

Byhenry February 10, 2009

Not according to Steve Matheson of Quintessence of Dust, who did some empirical research on the matter!

Author Related | Creation and Evolution | Intelligent Design | Religion | Science | Theistic Evolution

Design Language and Evolution
Byhenry January 19, 2009
Charles Jones has a post a Power of Suggestion in which he notes the following: But evolution cant allow things, because its unguided. And it cant make any mistakes, because it makes no decisions. Take note: whenever people try to explain how something happens through evolution, they always resort to the language of design. Now…
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Education | Education Policy | Politics | Science

Parents are Key to Science Education
Byhenry January 8, 2010
Jonathan Smith, Vice President of Florida Citizens for Science (of which I am a board member) presents a column on science education in Florida today in the The Ledger (Lakeland, FL): A key quote: Parents are the ones who must endeavor to help shape their children’s future by guiding them down the paths of interests…
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Author Related | Creation and Evolution | Energion.com | Intelligent Design | Young Earth Creationism

The Imagination Stopper
Byhenry December 31, 2008
Carl Zimmer has a post on the Loom that discusses irreducible complexity along with some examples. I found it very interesting how we start with a bicycle as irreducibly complex, a claim of an intelligent design (ID) advocate, and then see how the irreducible is reduced through the magic of Google. There are many ways…
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Creation and Evolution

Differences of Opinion, Lies, and Seeing the Other Side
Byhenry December 13, 2007
I got started this morning on this topic by reading this post at Quintessence of Dust. Dr. Matheson is looking for a good model to use in referring to creationists and their arguments. The temptation is to regard all false statements as lies. But at the same time we have to ask why people who…
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Politics | Science

Seismologists Guilty of Manslaughter
Byhenry October 22, 2012
An Italian court has rendered what has to be on the top ten list of stupidest rulings in history in finding six scientists and government official guilty of manslaughter for being too reassuring prior to an earthquake (Source: MSNBC). Scientists around the world are condemning the verdict, as well they should. This illustrates the widespread…
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Christianity | Creation and Evolution | Intelligent Design | Religion

Openly Discussing Evolution, SDAs, and the UMC
Byhenry February 6, 2016
Evolution is one of those issues we often don’t discuss in church. There are actually quite a number of Christians who accept evolutionary theory in general or just a part of it, but quite often they just don’t want to get into the kind of acrimonious debate. Every so often (really quite rarely, all things…
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