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Thursday, January 31, 2008

FINALLY…...A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS TO SCIENTISTS WHO PUBLICLY CONSIDER INTELLIGENT DESIGN

BEN STEIN has made it, and you can see it in the theaters beginning next month.

WHO: Ben Stein, in the new film EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed

WHAT: His heroic and, at times, shocking journey confronting the world’s top scientists, educators and philosophers, regarding the persecution of the many by an elite few.

WHEN: Coming to a theater near you Spring 2008

WHERE: Ben travels the world on his quest, and learns an awe-inspiring truth…that bewilders him, then angers him…and then spurs him to action!

WHY: Ben realizes that he has been “Expelled,” and that educators and scientists are being ridiculed, denied tenure and even fired – for the “crime”
of merely believing that there might be evidence of “design” in nature, and that perhaps life is not just the result of accidental, random chance.

To which Ben Says: “Enough!“ And then gets busy. NOBODY messes with Ben.

Posted by Earl on 01/31 at 08:48 PM
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TIME MAGAZINE SAYS THAT CRAIG VENTER HAS “CREATED LIFE - ALMOST”

Working with only the four basic nucleotides that make up all DNA — adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine — he has assembled an entirely new chromosome for an entirely new one-celled creature. Insert that genome into a cell — like inserting a disc into a computer — and a new species of living thing will be booted up. Venter hasn’t done that yet, which is why even he won’t say that he has technically invented life. He has, however, already shown that a genome transplanted from an existing cell to another will shut down the host’s genetic programming and bring its own online. If that cellular body-snatching works with an ordinary chromosome, there’s little reason to think it won’t with a manufactured one.

Oh, please…….. “Create life”?

Posted by Earl on 01/31 at 08:11 PM
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Saturday, September 30, 2006

HOW BIG IS OUR UNIVERSE…....?

You can get a sense of it HERE

View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.

You’ll be impressed!

Posted by Earl on 09/30 at 09:33 PM
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

JUST WHAT IS GOING ON INSIDE YOUR BODY RIGHT NOW?

We know a lot, of course…..and more every day. What has occurred in the last decade is that we have increasingly powerful ways to show visually what we are learning in the biology/biochemistry labs. And what we’re finding is that Bishop Paley was correct, and Hume wrong—at the smallest levels, it is perfectly realistic to compare biological organisms to machines like a watch.

In fact, despite the fact that the film you’re about to watch understates the complexity and “busyness” of the interior of the cell by orders of magnitude, it’s an awesome thought that this kind of activity - so plainly (if we look at it without preconceptions) the result of precision engineering - is occurring at this very moment in almost every cell in our bodies. Billions of billions of cells - each a tiny factory filled with machines doing their myriad jobs…......

CHECK IT OUT!

Posted by Earl on 09/13 at 12:25 PM
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Wednesday, August 09, 2006

SCIENCE at WAR WITH RELIGION…..?

Not likely…..not if you define “religion” appropriately, anyhow.

A GREAT ARTICLE (free registration required) from what I consider an unlikely source.

...scientists have to be brave to talk about religion. Not to denounce it, but to embrace it….With no apology and hardly any arm-waving, they describe their beliefs, how they came to them and how they reconcile them with their work in science….Coming as they do from a milieu in which religious belief of any kind is often dismissed as little more than magical thinking, this is bravery indeed.

Posted by Earl on 08/09 at 11:01 AM
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Monday, August 08, 2005

HOW TO WIN THE PEACE IN THE WAR BETWEEN “EVOLUTION” AND ITS CRITICS

The EDITORIAL position of the National Review on the subject of Intelligent Design and Evolution in the schools has just been published.

That evolution is a national issue is almost entirely the result of mistakes by the Supreme Court. It has first set itself up as the regulator of all local governmental practices that have religious overtones. Compounding the error, it has decided to try to figure out the motivations of all those practices. So a local school board’s failure to teach evolution becomes, literally, a federal case: a violation of the Court’s version of the separation of church and state.

Whatever the outcome of the debate over evolution, it should be conducted at the local level. A federal judiciary that sees fit to police the boundaries between science and religion has already lost sight of its own boundaries.

This is not the first time that I’ve thought our nation would be improved by following the advice of the editors of National Review.

Posted by Earl on 08/08 at 09:06 AM
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Friday, March 04, 2005

HOW DARWINISM IS GOING TO LOSE ITS HEGEMONY.

It’s pretty well known that in the U.S., people who believe that there is a some form of intelligent designer behind what we see all around us in the universe and our own biosphere vastly outnumber those who believe that there is no ultimate cause, just the interplay of matter and energy. However, it is the belief of the latter small minority that is enshrined in the textbooks, as well as in every public school classroom that the ACLU has been able to intimidate by the threat of a lawsuit.

This Darwinist hegemony began in a Dayton, TN courtroom back in 1925, when the Scopes trial made monkeys out of those who opposed the teaching of Darwinism. Today, there is a concerted effort to get our masters in black robes to balance the presentations a little, by letting science teachers explain that there really IS evidence that Darwinism isn’t very good at explaining - despite fulsome promises of future breakthroughs. This insurgency is going to be helped immeasurably if it begins to make the following insight central to their efforts:

...there are essentially two separate theories advanced by Darwin. The first is that the process of the world attaining its current form was characterized by evolutionary transitions in its phasing, which built themselves into permanence by providing in each instance a fitter form or functionality. The second (theory) is the idea that this could have happened by itself without a conscious design.

JAY D. HOMNICK calls these Darwin 1 and Darwin 2. We currently have a lot of evidence that is most easily explained by Darwin 1. On the other hand, there is NO scientifically credible evidence of which I am aware for Darwin 2.

The Darwinist strategy has always included muddying the waters about distinctions of this sort—Stephen Jay Gould famously said that if you are going to accept the advances in refrigeration, transportation, and space travel that science provides, then you’ll just have to accept that they’re right about Darwinism, too (very rough paraphrase). This is a real howler of a category error, of course, but it’s hard to get that into sound bite form. Perhaps Darwin 1 and Darwin 2 will catch on, and every child in America will learn to do a bit more critical thinking…...we can hope.

Posted by Earl on 03/04 at 02:02 PM
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