Tagged: Creationism

Astronomers Baffled by Mature, Distant Galaxies

In an interesting article at AIG, Andrew Rig discusses last year’s discovery by UT Astronomers of a string of mature galaxies at the edge of where we can currently observe.  Problem?  In the words of one UT astronomer: The simulations tell us that you cannot...

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Museums Training Docents to Deal With Creationists

In this very interesting NYT article entitled Challenged By Creationists, Museums Answer Back, I see a couple of interesting and funny things going on. 1. Evolutionists are having to address the growing tide of disbelief in their belief system. What’s funny is that they in...

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Grieving the Death of Evolution

William Dembski, well-known Intelligent Design spokesperson, had a very funny article the other day entitled Evolution and the Stages of Grief.  I just *have* to summarize it ;).  In the article, he outlines three models for the process of how new truths are recognized.  You’ve...

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Latest Pew Charitable Trust Report

The Pew Charitable Trust, an organization which "informs the public on key issues and trends, as a highly credible source of independent, non-partisan research and polling information" has released their latest report on public opinion on the issues.  Here are some interesting snippets: Religion and...

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Evolution’s Impact on Science

I guess, as a creationist sympathizer, I have many goals, some that have to do with science, some with philosophy, and some with education and public policy. In random order: Impact of Evolutionary Philosophy: Because evolution has philosophical, religious, as well as scientific and public...

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Differing opinions on God and Evolution

Time magazine’s cover story The Evolution Wars. Included in their coverage is a piece about conflicts between God and evolution. They interviewed four different people with varying ideas and experiences: Francis Collins, Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, Steven Pinker, Harvard Philosophy Professor,...

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Intelligent Design evidence influences Flew

Since Wizbang linked to the news of Dr. Anthony Flew leaving atheism behind, I thought it was safe for me to do something similar. (I was already thinking about posting it, considering our recent discussions here.) Recently, Flew was interviewed by Dr. Gary Habermas for...

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A Limerick

There once was a Darwin devoteeWhose phylogenetics were hokey"I know my origin"He said with a sly grin"I have a great uncle named monkey!"

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