Getting Over Our Love for Darwin
By William A. Dembski
November, 2009
Source: http://www.uncommondescent.com/evolution/getting-over-our-love-for-darwin/
Charles Darwin published his “Origin of Species” in 1859. There he presented the classic formulation of his theory of evolution. Lady Ashley, reacting to the theory at the time, remarked, “Let’s hope that it’s not true; but if it is true, let’s hope that it doesn’t become widely known.” Lady Ashley’s second hope has failed: Darwin’s theory is everywhere and has now become textbook orthodoxy. This year, universities around the globe are celebrating the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s “Origin of …
In his new book The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions, author David Berlinski turns the scientific community’s skepticism on itself in this ‘biting defense of religious thought.’ Here is a radio interview: http://feeds.radioamerica.org/podcast/GGL/audio/000003_014438.mp3
[podcast]http://feeds.radioamerica.org/podcast/GGL/audio/000003_014438.mp3[/podcast]
Thanks to G. Gordon Liddy: http://www.radioamerica.org/POD_ggl.htm
The following is stolen directly from Apologetics 315 here. They have more info available…
On Thursday, November 5th 2009, William Lane Craig and Francisco J. Ayala will debate the subject: Is Intelligent Design Viable?
The debate will be moderated by (atheist) Dr. Bradley Monton and will take place at Indiana University.
More about the participants here.
If you have fast internet (that rules out all of New Zealand), then you can get a live video feed here.
The MP3 is available online here: http://www.brianauten.com/Apologetics/craig-ayala-debate.mp3
Make sure you read the comments on Apologetics 315. Sounds like a disappointing debate overall and one …
Logos have just released version 4 of their popular Bible study software, and this looks like a worthy upgrade.
Take a look at the intro video and following handful of pages showing the features here: http://www.logos.com/4.
You can get a 25% discount HERE thanks to an update by I am Jonny King, who also has a link to a review that you might want to have a look at, by someone in the know.
Click to play the MP3: [podcast]http://intelligentdesign.podOmatic.com/enclosure/2009-11-02T15_39_58-08_00.mp3[/podcast]
…and cheap John Piper audio books. More information is available here. Well, what are you waiting for — get the iPod rocking and the download rolling!
Dr. Glenn Peoples at Beretta has posted some good stuff on the recent “Brian Tamaki” events.
You should also check out this very good interview of Brian Tamaki and Richard Lewis, along with cult watcher and Destiny critic Mark Vrankovich here.
What do you think of Brian Tamaki? I have to say, I actually quite like the guy (but then I also quite like Richard Dawkins too), but that has little to do with agreeing with what they believe.
I think we have to bear in mind that Brian and co are dealing with …
NEWSFLASH — ARS TECHNICA HAS A MASSIVE REVIEW OF WINDOZE 7 HERE: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/reviews/2009/10/windows-7-the-review.ars AND THEY HAVE AN OS X 10.6 MASSIVE REVIEW HERE: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars
I state in advance that I am fully aware that there are Apple fanboys out there who will defend their beloved cult to the death, and that any criticism of such a divine invention as The Mac is far worse than Muhammad cartoons or burning Richard Dawkins books. But since I am mostly fearless, except when I’m not, I shall proceed with vigor…
In the following, I am …
I am Jonny King has a significant post that deserves your reflection.
We at Christian News agree with the sentiments of this post, even if we don’t always grasp this bloggers “distinctive” style, and we encourage everyone to think seriously about how they can play some part!
It’s over to I am Jonny King….
Disclaimer: Matt and Madeline Flanagan are the victims of this piece of gutter journalism… sorry, verbose diatribe! They have in no way done anything to foster the words or these intentions. They are posting this [God Willing] …
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/2986946/Atheist-websites-hit-by-cyber-attack
Australian atheists are under attack, with the websites of both the Atheist Foundation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention knocked offline in a major cyber attack yesterday afternoon.
The “distributed denial of service” attacks flooded the websites with traffic, forcing them offline about 5.20pm yesterday.
As of this morning, the foundation had still not been able to restore the websites.
The attacks may be related to the Global Atheist Convention, which is being held in Melbourne in March next year. Speakers include Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion and comedy writer …
Richard Dawkins’ new book, The Greatest Show on Earth, is being touted as a scathing rebuttal to intelligent design (ID), yet an actual response to mainstream ID thinking can hardly be found in the book. Though the book makes passing mention of “irreducible complexity” in a couple places, there are zero mentions of leading ID proponents like Michael Behe, William Dembski, Jonathan Wells, Phillip Johnson, Stephen Meyer, or any other well-known ID proponent. Instead, Dawkins refers extensively to “creationists,” repeatedly attacking young earth creationism, while also making heavy use of fallacious …
Gotta love this quote from the LA Times:
Discovered in 1860, only a year after Charles Darwin published his famous “On the Origin of Species,” the raven-sized archaeopteryx was generally assumed to show evolution in action. It had the feathers and wishbones of birds, but it also retained the teeth, tail and three-fingered hands of dinosaurs.
But new studies of its bones and those of other fossils, by a team led by paleontologist Gregory M. Erickson of Florida State University and the American Museum of Natural History, show that it was much …
Wow, ya gotta love this (lengthy) discussion.
CHILD RAPE IN A MATERIALISTIC WORLD
http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/child-rape-in-a-materialist-world/
The aforementioned post shows again so nicely that in a Godless (e.g. material-only, or materialistic) world why “all things are permissible”. Materialists (e.g. atheists) should own up to the moral bankruptcy of their worldview and start being consistent with themselves and the rest of us. E.g. stop illogically smuggling moral values into conversations. e.g. you SHOULD smack deaf politicians, or you SHOULD NOT kick cats.
Leading Darwinist Richard Dawkins Dodges Debates, Refuses to Defend Evolution as The Greatest Show On Earth
Seattle – Richard Dawkins, the world’s leading public spokesman for Darwinian evolution and an advocate of the “new atheism,” has refused to debate Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, a prominent advocate of intelligent design and the author of the acclaimed Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design.
“Richard Dawkins claims that the appearance of design in biology is an illusion and claims to have refuted the case for intelligent design,” says Dr. Meyer …
There is little doubt that we are paying excessive prices (a.k.a. being ripped off) in this country compared to overseas for certain computer related items. Take for example Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 7. In the USA, people have been able to receive massive discounts (somewhere around 70% off) by pre-ordering Win7 between certain now-expired dates. Likewise in Australia.
On the Apple side of things, the Mac Mini, as I have documented previously on this site, has about $400 NZD difference between the two available models, yet the actual differences in …
Check this out from Melanie Philips at The Spectator:
Yet another scientific scandal has come to light which knocks another whopping crater in the already shattered theory of anthropogenic global warming. Eight peer-reviewed studies, which for years have played a significant supporting role behind the IPPC’s claims of AGW, have been shown to be fraudulent.
As Andrew Orlowski reports in The Register, the issue is the use of tree rings as a temperature proxy in order to ‘reconstruct’ past temperatures. The papers in question incorporated data from trees at the Yamal …
The Anti-Defamation League, the country’s leading group dedicated to fighting anti-Semitism, is rightly sensitive to the offense of trivializing the Holocaust. Why, then, has the ADL said nothing in protest against the Darwinian biologist and bestselling atheist author Richard Dawkins and his comparison of Darwin doubters to Holocaust deniers?
The ADL has objected to attempts to inject Nazi imagery into the health-care reform debate (“Such statements only serve to diminish and trivialize the extent of the Nazi regime’s crimes against humanity”), the abortion debate (“Such analogies can only trivialize and diminish the horror”), …
By Dr. Doug Groothuis
As I survey the wreckage of the Obama landscape, I fear that my predictions before the election may sadly come true. Although some dismissed me (even people I thought would give me a fair hearing), I predicted that, if elected, Obama would lose the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq, and that the US would be hit hard by more terrorist attacks.
It is obvious that Obama does not stand against evil internationally. He failed to denounce the rigged elections in Iran; he chums around with Hugh Chavez, a …
ACT MP John Boscawen is continuing his series of public meetings in response to the the referendum results, while gathering support for his Private Member’s Bill to amend Section 59 of the Crimes Act 1961 (the so-called ‘anti-smacking law’), so parents can use reasonable force for the purpose of correction.
Tauranga – Monday 5 October 7.30pm, The Redwood Room, Bureta Park Motor Inn Vale Street, Otumoetai, Tauranga
Hamilton – Thursday 8 October 7.30pm, Hamilton Central Baptist Church, 33 Charlemont Street, Hamilton.
Speakers – John Boscawen, ACT MP, Bob McCoskrie, Family First, Larry Baldock, …
