intelligent design

A comment in the Intelligent Design thread has started me thinking. It seems to me that there are many instances where the design of the human body is obviously - not to put too fine a point on it - downright wrong. There are of course different trade-offs in any design, so it's not really a...

Just learned that this movie, IS GENESIS HISTORY? has been released on DVD. I did a google search for the movie and was surprised to find such a small number of negative reviews and posts. I have not seen it, but it appears to be totally young earth creationist propaganda. The few negative...

I came across this article while looking for something else. What struck me was this paragraph: A minority of Americans fully accept the scientific explanation for the origins of human life. According to a 2013 Pew Research Center survey, 60% of Americans say humans have evolved over...

Whether one sees intelligent design in terms of old earth creationism or sees the hand of a divine architect behind to workings of evolution, as in theistic evolutionist belief, I see a real problem with mass extinctions. They're sloppy and wasteful. Consider the Permian extinction. A theistic...

Love this comic strip! Love it. I have to give credit to Non Sequitur.

Creationists Switch Tactics In Tennessee This isn't a totally new tactic, as creationists have been pushing to "teach the controversy" for a while, but promoting critical thinking while singling out climate change and evolution as areas of supposed scientific dispute does seem underhanded.

TL/DR version: skip to highlighted line A few days ago I got into a slightly heated discussion with my sister. We were talking about what is, is not, can and can not be taught in schools here in Canada. For background, she will soon graduate with an education degree (English major) to...

Randman provided this link. I have not looked at all the examples, yet. But, since this is the "best" answer I have seen for the question "How does Intelligent Design help science gain new knowledge?" I figured it deserves its own thread...

I don't know if this has been done yet, but I'd like to dedicate a thread to all of the "Intelligent Design" and "Creationism" theory out there. This is for scientific evidence to support these "theories." There are only a couple of rules I would impose. 1. Cannot reference evolution, or...

The latest estimate of fatalities caused by the recent earthquake + tsunami in Japan is in excess of 10,000. Disastrous as this is, it pales in comparison to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that took 240,000 lives. Still more lives were lost - about 300,000 - in a much smaller area in the 2010...

"Teach the controversy" -- they think this would somehow benefit them. Ok, I'll bite. Intelligent design, such as it is, makes some predictions. God knows there's enough on all these all over the place. So rather than pick things apart piece by piece, address the larger issues. ID, for...

How is it that we humans can wake up from sleep with our necks feeling like a thousand pain cannons are firing into them? How is this possible when the neck felt fine when going to bed? Why is there a prostate wrapped around a tube through which liquid waste is dispensed and why does this...

http://www.discoverlife.org/ This website claims to display phylogenies, but instead displays taxonomic rankings under that title. It also refers to species as "kinds". http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Geryoniidae What concerns me is that it's a top Google hit, and the organization...

Apparently all the discussion over the years with William Dembski concerning the reasonableness of intelligent design has been utterly pointless: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/10/are_we_at_all_surprised.php ~~ Paul

Howdy all, I returned this afternoon from listening to the Disco Institute's talk by Casey Luskin, titled "Intelligent Design: Dead Science or Future of Biology?" and below I have included the transcript of my notes - I apologize to the Mods in advance for the length, it was a long talk. It...

So one topic i find that is very important in the subject of woo of all kinds ( you may have noticed my other similar threads.) is how one can decide if someone is fake or not. So i have two questions to two different ( but possibly overlapping groups) of people. 1) If you are an id'er...

I had a reason to review the current state of the science of abiogenesis recently and it seemed worth sharing. 2009:The Origin of Life A case is made for the descent of electrons The science of our origins is moving right along. The Talk Origins page on abiogenesis was apparently last...

Eric Hovind, son of convicted creationist liar Kent Hovind, having dinner with Stephen Meyer, director of the Discovery Insitute. The intelligent design supporters can deny all they want that intelligent design isn't creationism, but its is quite clear, especially after Dover, that they are...

David Coppedge is suing the Jet Propulsion Laboratory claiming religious discrimination because of his support for intelligent design. The Discovery Institute has been busy issuing press releases ("Coppedge is suing JPL and Caltech for religious discrimination" and here, here, and here). So the...

Jeffrey Outlaw Shallit attended the Dover trial reunion and had a good time: http://recursed.blogspot.com/2009/11/dover-trial-reunion.html ~~ Paul

Hello all I don't know if this was covered before or not. The idea is mine, but I don't know if someone else thought up before me or not. It matters relatively little, since the whole thing has at least some merit. Here goes. It is an indusputable fact that the principle of intelligent design...

Hi all, I've been reading these forums for a while now and decided to make a post to get a question I've been wondering about some time anwsered I couldn't find any real reference to it using the search engine, but if it has been brought up before I'm sure someone will inform me. I'm afraid...

Crusader Richard Dawkins Anti-Christ, Anti-God, & Anti Organized Religion Crusader Richard Dawkins is Anti-Christ, Anti-God, & Anti-Organized Religion Richard Dawkins, a professor at Oxford University and perhaps the world’s most famous atheist, is working diligently to spread his message that...

Let us assume, for the time being, that uncontroversial evidence was found, for an Intelligent Designer. Maybe we discovered the original blue-prints of various life forms, and the labs they were created in. Maybe something even more dramatic than that: Actual communications with the Designer...

In another thread Baby Nemesis links to the article “Insufficient Evidence at Hand for Darwinism” by this apparent advocate of ID, Stephen A. Batzer, Ph.D., P.E., who does not seem to know an awful lot about evolution and biology. Since he might be on his way to creationist fame – other websites...

If anyone has the time or energy, perhaps you can help contribute some responses to this: http://www.uncommondescent.com/faq/ I would, especially, like some information for this one: 4. ID does not make scientifically fruitful predictions. Again, simply false. As just one example of a...

Stumbled across this thread, and I didn't find a reference to it in these forums. Looks like someone made a subtitle track for Expelled that addressed the misinformation presented in the movie. Now if only there were little robot silhouettes as well...

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Since the ID crowd try to avoid mentioning God when discussing their "scientific theory", are they open to the possibility that someone or something other than a god is the intelligent designer? Here are a few options I've thought of on the spur of the moment (feel free to add any you can think...

This is a response, mostly, to this old article: http://www.uncommondescent.com/comment-policy/put-a-sock-in-it/ I would like to stick some I.D. proponents with some good "stumpers" not included in their list (or repeat the ones not adequately answered). Here are just a few I have collected...