| 4 hours ago by nemo Susskind’s The Cosmic Landscape reviewed in the Times Book Review. The worry over the connection with intelligent design seems misplaced. I would bet that Kant’s simple, and by no means airtight, disproof of the design argument, ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
A Bad Marriage
| 4 hours ago by nemo No end to debate likely. Dover’s done talking intelligent design, but rest of the world isn’t. It has been a bad marriage, Darwinists and fundamentalists. Darwinists have gotten their just deserts for the deception they have created on ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Beyond Belief
| 15 hours ago by nemo Dawkins becoming a grumpy old man:Richard Dawkins: Beyond belief . The renowned evolutionary biologist tells John Crace why he finds the resurgence of religion so annoying . If the religion of Darwinism made a comeback after its late ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
How Darwin Evolved
| 15 hours ago by nemo How Darwin evolved, a book review. In 1838, Charles Darwin wrote in his Notebook M, “Ia geologist have illdefined [sic] notion of land covered with ocean, former animals, slow force cracking surface &c truly poetical”. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Atheistical memes
| 15 hours ago by nemo Escapee from the meme machine has done some field work among the xtian primitives. Be an atheist, sure, but don’t call Xtianity just another meme, riding the opposite Darwin meme. Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Natural Selection
| 15 hours ago by nemo Evolgen has a series of tutorials on Detecting Natural Selection. Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Strategy: Use the wrong approach
| 15 hours ago by nemo Once again the ID question, this time in a philosophy course, reaches the courts:Mercury News, and once again the wrong approach makes life easy for Darwin fanatics, now emboldened to suppress the last whisper of Darwin dissent. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
ID guerilla warfare
| 14 Jan 2006 by nemo Announcing the new book on P. Johnson, Darwin’s Nemesis, Uncommon Descent (Dembski is back?) reflects on the long term strategy for the ID movement. I think Darwinians should pause and reflect on the losing strategy concealed in a ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Fuller on ‘Darwinian Left’
| 13 Jan 2006 by nemo Peter Singer’s The Darwinian Left struck me as upside down when it came out and I reviewed it critically at Amazon. Here is Steve Fuller on the subject. Singer’s vision of a ‘Darwinian Left’ does little to exploit science’s role as an ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Fuller and Epistemological Wasteland
| 13 Jan 2006 by nemo With whatever result, the defendants in the Dover Trial stole a march on the philosophy of science front with Steve Fuller’s testimony in this area of the epistemological wasteland. Steve Fuller’s website has some useful information ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 12 Jan 2006 by nemo Darwinism has produced so much shoddy thinking you’d think people would finally snap out of it. Typical nonsense here. Since the basic idea is to claim to explain everything there is no extra cost in claiming art too. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Totalitarian Google?
| 18 Nov 2005 by nemo at http://darwiniana.com. Later I gave a link to Does Google Cheat? This post is now outdated, since I evacuated most of my material from http:// eonix.8m.com, but now the same thing is happening to my new site. Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Re: C’mon Chomsky
| 16 Nov 2005 by nemo Darwiniana: An Evolution Blog http://darwiniana.com. _______________. At a time when theories of evolution are under renewed controversy, discussion is hampered by the remoteness of the phenomenon of evolution, and the use of indirect ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
‘Furry mammals’ abandon ship
| 18 Nov 2005 by nemo Charles Krauthammer takes on ID:. Phony Theory, False Conflict ‘Intelligent Design’ Foolishly Pits Evolution Against Faith Because every few years this country, in its infinite tolerance, insists on hearing yet another appeal of the ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Is Niles Eldridge really a Darwinist?
| 18 Nov 2005 by nemo Edward Rothstein reviews the new Darwin exhibit at the Natural History museum Enough to Make an Iguana Turn Green: Darwin’s Ideas. But the exhibition actually domesticates Darwin and his theory. Think, instead, of the theory’s daring. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
More: Re: [Kant] Historical Materialism
| 17 Nov 2005 by nemo Another exchange at Kant @ yahoogroups on Allen Wood’s statements about Kant’s (putative) ‘historical materialism’. In a message dated 11/17/2005 1:46:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, merrillb@[] writes: ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Karen Armstrong on Axial Age
| 20 Nov 2005 by nemo What is Enlightenment? magazine, issue 31, has an article on Karen Armstrong and the supposed ‘Second Axial Age’. Text is listed below, after my commentary. This page updates a post from a few days ago, and is also available at ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Tennyson meets Darwin
| 19 Nov 2005 by nemo The Grandeur of Evolution in a New Exhibition Called ‘Darwin’ The constant promotion of the Myth of Darwinism ticks over in the current promo for the Natural History museum exhibit. The fixation on Darwin is always puzzling, ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
More on Armstrong’s Axial Age
| 22 Nov 2005 by nemo Continuing the question of Karen Armstrong on the Axial Age, previous post here, which you can read first. Googling Karen Armstrong’s views on a so-called ‘Second Axial Age’ I find a number of seminars on the subject, with this from a ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Big Business Scared on Evolution
| 22 Nov 2005 by nemo It is perhaps to be expected that Big Biz should consist of cowards scared away from the Darwin debate: The Darwin exhibition frightening off corporate sponsors. Why is it that 51% of Americans reject the theory of evolution? ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 18 Dec 2005 by nemo I was browsing at Barnes & Nobles for an Xmas book (for myself, among others) and narrowed the list down to a mere hundred finalists, two in particularThe Cosmic Landscape : String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design, ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 18 Dec 2005 by nemo Decision expected Tuesday in ‘intelligent design’ lawsuit. HARRISBURG, Pa. - Plaintiffs’ lawyers and scientists who worked on the federal “intelligent design” trial say a ruling in the landmark case will likely come Tuesday. Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 19 Dec 2005 by nemo Patrick Buchanan regurgitates Bethell’s ‘republican war on science’. Buchanan seems to be roaming the battlefield without a rifle. It is somewhat comic to see these conservatives claim Darwinism is classical economics in disguise, ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 17 Dec 2005 by nemo Articles at Nature Genetics will cost you, so a freebie is nice: here’s an article on Hox Genesis at Pharyngula:. One of the hallmark characters of animals is the presence of a specific cluster of genes that are responsible for staking ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
ID in Nineteenth Century Textbooks
| 17 Dec 2005 by nemo The Washington Post quotes some nineteenth century textbooks, ‘Intelligent Design’ Deja Vu in case we are wondering what ID in schools would be like. Obviously it would be a regressive gesture. But we are still left with the question of ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 17 Dec 2005 by nemo I hadn’t noticed a new introduction to Hofstadter’s Social Darwinism in American Thought, by Eric Foner, who comments on Bannister’s later critique of Hofstadter. From Foner’s Introduction:. Social Darwinism has had an impact matched by ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 17 Dec 2005 by nemo Prometheus Books has a new book out on the issue of Jihad in Islam, with a Foreword by Ibn Warraq. You almost have to whisper on this one, your move. Still, we have to pick up the slack on free speech here for those who don’t have it, ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 22 Dec 2005 by nemo Due to various distractions, I was a bit delayed in a response to the Dover ruling, perhaps just as well: food for thought. This one will be around for a while. This deserves a webpage essay, but some early thoughts are ‘par for the ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
No quotation marks? Unconstitutional!
| 22 Dec 2005 by nemo Welcome to post-ID challenges to Darwin. In a way, it is a relief to have the ruling over Dover challenge the ID steamroller. The ID gang has provoked their own defeat, but that doesn’t change the deeper issue. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
The Darwin Fraud Triumphs Again
| 21 Dec 2005 by nemo A Times article on the Dover decision notes. The judge found that intelligent design is not science, and that the only way its proponents can claim it is, is by changing the very definition of science to include supernatural ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 1 hour ago by nemo Darwiniana: An Evolution Blog http://darwiniana.com. _______________. At a time when theories of evolution are under renewed controversy, discussion is hampered by the remoteness of the phenomenon of evolution, and the use of indirect ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Second Axial Age??
| 1 hour ago by nemo What is Enlightenment? magazine, issue 31, has an article on Karen Armstrong and the supposed ‘Second Axial Age’. Unfortunately it is not online. The use of the term ‘Axial Age’ has suffered confusion, and has degenerated in some ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
C’mon, Mr. Chomsky
| 15 Nov 2005 by nemo Chomsky weighs in on the ID debate. This is a good example of the way ID forces closet Postdarwinians back into the fold, lest they be tainted by the dread association with the Bible Belt. You would think that Chomsky, once an astute ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Times on Kansas 2
| 15 Nov 2005 by nemo Second Times article :. ADDITIONS TO KANSAS SCIENCE STANDARDS: Biological evolution postulates an unguided natural process that has no discernible direction or goal. RESPONSE OF MAINSTREAM SCIENTISTS: “Unguided” is “a very slippery word ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Times on Kansas
| 15 Nov 2005 by nemo The NY Times has two articles in its Science section today, about the Kansas ‘changes in the definition in science’. This deserves several posts so here’s the text to start. Here’s the gist:. The changes in the official state definition ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
ID peaks, now the real debate begins…
| 14 Nov 2005 by nemo It seems the politicians are getting nervous about ID, Santorum changing his view on its place in the classroom. Is cynicism permissible here? BEAVER FALLS - US Sen. Rick Santorum said Saturday that he doesn’t believe that intelligent ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Buddhism and Antiscience
| 14 Nov 2005 by nemo The Dalai Lama has a short piece in the Times echoing his recent Universe in a Single Atom, Our Faith in Science. We can be delighted that Buddhists, by and large, have an openness to science that is too often lacking in the ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
WashPost: No Darwingate This Time
| 13 Nov 2005 by nemo The Washington Post cheers on the Evolutionary Voting in Dover, where the ID board members were voted out. We can all be glad that ID can’t Trojan horse its way into the school system, but that leaves us back where we started, ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
A Hypercomplex System
| 12 Nov 2005 by nemo A reader responds to World History and The Eonic Effect, at Chaos Listserve, see A Hypercomplex System. I’ve been attempting to understand your book, World History and the Eonic Effect, with a mixture of results, but I’m only about half ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
The Future of Evolution
| 11 Nov 2005 by nemo Freeman Dyson on The Future of Evolution:. Now, after three billion years, the Darwinian interlude is over. It was an interlude between two periods of horizontal gene transfer. The epoch of Darwinian evolution based on competition ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 11 Nov 2005 by nemo Dembski asks, Is Eugenie Scott an Atheist?. The ID movement is so confused on ID as somehow inside/outside and/or inside out that we should suspect closet Spinozism. Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Testing ID?
| 11 Nov 2005 by nemo Panda’s Thumb skewers testability/falsifiability fantasies of Behe (from his testimony at Dover Trial). In fact, intelligent design is open to direct experimental rebuttal. Here is a thought experiment that makes the point clear. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Heretics in hiding
| 11 Nov 2005 by nemo It is striking how few players there are in the current Darwin. The equivocating statements of the pope, among others, show how truth surrenders to PR. Notable especially is the unwillingness of academic sources to address the issue. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Robertson on Dover
| 10 Nov 2005 by nemo Televangelist Robertson warns town of God’s wrath There could hardly a clearer example of the way the ID argument is crippled by ambiguity. As a dominant paradigm, if that ever happened, ID would be caught up in the confusions of faith, ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Subject: Re: [kant] Historical materialism
| 29 Oct 2005 by nemo More on that some other time. A huge amount of material is about to come online at my website, on this issue. In the meantime see http://www.history-and-evolution.com/kant/index.htm. I am reposting this at my blog: http://darwiniana.com ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Pernicious Character of Design Arguments
| 9 Nov 2005 by nemo Criticizing Darwin tends to energize the carefully schemed ID strategy of framing the debate between natural selection and design. But the alternative is false. That’s especially vexing since alternatives to Darwin won’t come easily, ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Bird’s nest argument by design?
| 9 Nov 2005 by nemo Continuing this morning’s post on Paley, this quote from Science and Theology News (see below):. In his book, Paley describes finding a watch while walking through the country. Paley argued that studying the watch’s interconnected ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Kansas is next…
| 9 Nov 2005 by nemo November 9, 2005 Kansas Board Approves Challenges to Evolution By JODI WILGOREN. TOPEKA, Kan., Nov. 8 - The fiercely split Kansas Board of Education voted 6 to 4 on Tuesday to adopt new science standards that are the most far-reaching ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
The Primate Speaks
| 9 Nov 2005 by nemo Catholic World News:. Intelligent Design, anyone? Last week a curial cardinal encouraged Christians to respect scientific evidence, and dozens of eager journalists pumped out stories. First the headlines said that the Vatican had ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Descent of Man Revisited
| 7 Nov 2005 by nemo New Web book: Descent of Man Revisited. As the Darwin debate rages, mostly in vain, we are stuck with the dogmatic propagandas of two cultural factions, the Darwinian and religious fundamentalists. The results have hopelessly confused ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 6 Nov 2005 by nemo From the Times, on Wilson’s new edition of Darwin texts:. Charles Darwin’s Difficult Legacy This week, WW Norton will publish "From So Simple a Beginning," a two-volume edition of four books by Charles Darwin, including "On the Origin ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Flu evolution?
| 6 Nov 2005 by nemo Evolution Is in the Air By Olivia Judson. If we’re unlucky, the virus causing avian flu will give us a nasty demonstration of Darwin’s theory. Despite the interest of this observation which I find fascinating and cogent, ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Teleology and Naturalism
| 4 Nov 2005 by nemo The Revealer has a discussion of malevolent design, a significant issue, but the collation of the argument by design and teleology (although understandable given the classic literature) is a mistake. There can be a teleological process ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
DI and Dover Trial
| 4 Nov 2005 by nemo Evolution News tries to clarify the Discovery Institute conflict over the Dover trial. Souns reasonable, but… 1. Discovery Institute’s science education policy has been consistent and clear. We strongly believe that teaching about ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Darwin Bio’s
| 4 Nov 2005 by nemo Comment at Crooked Timber thread, Darwin at Home. Janet Browne is too hagiographic, Desmond and Moore’s Darwin is much better, and goes into the ideological bias in Darwin the Whig, Darwin, not just Spencer, the Social Darwinist. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Pontification
| 3 Nov 2005 by nemo A Vatican cardinal muffles on evolution, evidentally backpeddling on the recent statements of a non-Vatican cardinal. But at the crucial moment, pontification fails, and the status of natural selection is the object of the usual ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Falsifying Darwinism
| 1 Nov 2005 by nemo Falsifying Darwinism. The study of the eonic effect, the evidence of a non-random pattern in world history, can usefully break the deadlock of the Darwin debate by looking at history in the light of ‘evolution’, taken in our extended ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
We knew it all along
| 1 Nov 2005 by nemo Brig Klyce at Panspermia. The origin of novelty, the development of new arrangements of interlocking parts that some call “irreducibly complex,” can only be understood in the light of the last 20 years of research in cell biology and ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Illusions of Dawkins
| 30 Oct 2005 by nemo Natural History magazine has an issue devoted to the Darwin debate. An article by Dawkins, The Illusion of Design, more or less repeats, repeats, the basic position points that are no more than that, assertions. Both sides, in fact, ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
It all just happens?
| 30 Oct 2005 by nemo Natural History magazine has a Darwin issue, with The Illusion of Design By Richard Dawkins. A kind of tedium overtakes me at the first sign of Darwin chapter and verse passages, so I was reluctant to bother. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 30 Oct 2005 by nemo Intelligent design case judge likely to use ‘Lemon test’. Jones to decide whether Dover has secular or religious motivation. HARRISBURG — The federal judge presiding over the landmark trial about how public schools teach evolution could ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
The Five Commandments
| 28 Oct 2005 by nemo Telic Thoughts cites Provine’s views on the meaning of evolution:. William Provine is the Charles A. Alexander Professor of Biological Sciences from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Is US becoming hostile to science?
| 28 Oct 2005 by nemo A Reuters news story, Is US becoming hostile to science? plies a frequent confusion in the Darwin debate, that it is anti-science to have a problem with Darwinism. The problems with science education in the United States are not to be ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Behe’s Peer Review
| 27 Oct 2005 by nemo Panda’s Thumb continues to obsess over the peer review of Behe’s Darwin’s Black Box. Behe brought it on himself for making any claims at all. Last week I wrote about the fact that Michael Behe claimed under oath in the Dover case that ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Dembski, Duplicity, and Christianity
| 27 Oct 2005 by nemo Dembski responds to a charge of duplicity. It is undoubtedly mudslinging as usual for parties of the Darwin debate to charge each other with deception. Everyone is sincere, believes in his agenda, and is genuinely shocked by charges of ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Gould: more on natural selection
| 27 Oct 2005 by nemo From ID The Future, another quote from Gould on natural selection: here. This, however, from the ponderous The Structure of Evolutionary Theory (2002, p. 886) leaves little doubt:. ___________________________ …we do not challenge either ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Darwiniana
| 28 Oct 2005 by MrsDarwin
Posting has been light from the distaff side of the Darwin entity because of the blossoming abilities of Noogs and Babs. There's a saying in Cincinnati: "If you don't like the weather, stick around five minutes; it'll change. ... DarwinCatholic: Where Religion, Philosophy... - http://darwincatholic.blogspot.com |
Kuhn Biographer in Dover
| 25 Oct 2005 by nemo I did a doubletake to discover that Steve Fuller was an expert witness at the Dover Trial: from Speaking Freely. His intellectual biography of Kuhn (which I reviewed at Amazon) is an exotic and fascinating take on the confusions of the ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Was Gould a Selectionist?
| 25 Oct 2005 by nemo Evolution Blog debates the question now being bandied about by the ID gang of Gould’s position on natural selection. I give up. He fooled me. You can find plenty of quotes to the effect that Gould was a strict Darwinian, ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Sorry, no bananas today
| 25 Oct 2005 by nemo From Chaopsych listserve:. Kauffman is one of the few honest people in this field, and his At Home in the Universe is a fine book, despite the problems, but self-organization has shown promise for a generation, and with what result? ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 24 Oct 2005 by nemo Dispatches from the Culture Wars, the blog, has a post on the conflict between the TMLC and DI over the Dover Trial. MODERATOR: I am curious about the Discovery Institute’s involvement in the Dover case, where originally they were ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
The Eonic Effect as ‘evolution’
| 24 Oct 2005 by nemo Response to a reader on the eonic effect at the Chaos listserve. Thanks for your effort to consider my attempt to describe the eonic effect. I hope it does prove too difficult. Keep at it. The eonic effect is not an ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Set up to fail
| 24 Oct 2005 by nemo Reponse to an email on the Chaos listserve (Re: Kirschner and Gerhart). I am often surprised at the helplessness of scientists confronted with ID. It bugs them, the fate of those conditioned to a monotheistic environment, perhaps. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Kirschner & Gerhart on ID
| 23 Oct 2005 by nemo Boston.com has an article on Kirschner and Gerhart and their response to the ID debate. Missing links Proponents of Intelligent Design have exploited a vexing question at the heart of Darwin’s theory. Now, say two leading biologists, ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Shapiro on Behe
| 23 Oct 2005 by nemo This is from Panda’s Thumb, which is obsessing over the peer review of Behe’s book:. Dr. Robert Shapiro is another scientist who reviewed DBB. Reading PZ’s closing line, I started wondering myself. So I emailed Dr. Shapiro and asked him ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
New Book
| 23 Oct 2005 by nemo I was alerted by Dembski’s blog that a new book, The Plausibility of Life is out, by Kirschner and Gerrhart, the authors of the previous Cells, Embryo, and Evolution, which I reviewed at Amazon a while back. That book left me suspicious ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Get yourself a good lawyer…
| 21 Oct 2005 by nemo Watching the Dover Trial I am struck by the incompetent strategy behind those challenging Darwinism with the Intelligent Design angle. (Some fellows at the Discovery Institute have distanced themselves from the trial). ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Orr su Favolistica darwiniana
| 24 Sep 2005 by paolo Il saggio e’ redatto da H. Allen Orr ed ha per titolo Favolistica darwiniana Dal sito web riporto: Che cos'hanno in comune Stalin, l'architettura moderna, il femminismo radicale e la maggioranza degli esperti di educazione infantile? ... Darwin, Evoluzionismo e Darwinismo - http://darwininitalia.blogspot.com |
The Eonic Effect
| 11 Oct 2005 by nemo An email to Kant/chaosmos/teilhard, and other groups at yahoo. The eonic effect is not something I made up. If it is complicated so be it. In fact the eonic effect is the ONLY evidence of evolution as it is that we have, Period. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Peer Review: Some Comic Relief
| 20 Oct 2005 by nemo Rule #1 in the Darwin Darwin: if it has been peer reviewed, watch out, there could be a problem. So it is amusing to watch the issue surface in the Dover Trial. Behe almost survived peer review. In fact the ID gang has a lot of hot ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 19 Oct 2005 by nemo Nathan Newman’s Labor Blog has a good post on Social Darwinism, Scopes and Bryan: here. Why Courts Should Not Defend Darwin TPMCafe is engaged in “evolution week”, and I fully appreciate the need to publicly challenge the scientific ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Show Trial
| 19 Oct 2005 by nemo As the crossexamination of Behe continues ( See York Daily Record), one has to wonder at the strategy of the Intelligent Design crowd. They are going to hand a fake victory to the Darwin Establishment. It is easy even for an amateur ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Lamaist Neuroscience
| 19 Oct 2005 by nemo The Times reports on the controversy over the Dalai Lama giving a lecture to neuroscientists, Scientists Bridle at Lecture Plan for Dalai Lama . Although a deliberate dialectic is always useful, as is systematic scientific skepticism, ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Eugenics On Trial–yup, The Scopes Trial
| 18 Oct 2005 by nemo A website on the Scopes Trial, with a link to an ebook transcript of the trial, tries to set the record straight on the Inherit the Wind myths. Here’s one damning bit:. Bryan did not oppose the teaching of evolution in public schools as ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
A Dreary Debate
| 18 Oct 2005 by nemo Slate has Still Another Debunking of Behe The Intelligent Design Trial. Unlike Biblical creationists, Behe does not believe the earth is only a few thousand years old. He accepts many parts of evolutionary theory. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Forrest on Meaning
| 18 Oct 2005 by nemo Barbara Forrest has been quoted in a number of blogs on religion/evolution and meaning: “The Possibility of Meaning in Human Evolution,” Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science 35.4 (Dec 2000), 861-889. We have established scientifically ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Behe’s Testimony
| 17 Oct 2005 by nemo Behe begins his testimony at the Dover trial: summarized here. Lost in the endless debate over Behe’s Black Box (Darwin’s ?) is the context of the original Darwin debate, and the key turning point in P. Johnson’s Darwin on Trial, ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Punctuated Equilibrium: The Axial Age
| 17 Oct 2005 by nemo Speaking Freely, the Pennsylvannia ACLU blog has short take on the expert testimony of Dr. Padian, with a ‘good question’ about punctuated equilibrium, the thesis of SJ Gould. Robert Muise, one of the attorneys representing the school ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Design? The Lawsuit Against God
| 16 Oct 2005 by nemo Reply on consilience/SftP/Critical Cafe/Kant/Hegel/Teilhard/ groups. From Luke Larondin, at consiliencep@topica.com. So, I hope you*ll take some time to respond to this question and the piece. I*m not interested as much in whether any ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
New Roe vs Wade?
| 10 Oct 2005 by nemo Will the Dover case, on its way to the Supreme Court, become the new Roe vs Wade? Whatever his [Judge Jones] verdict, the losing side will undoubtedly appeal the case up to the Supreme Court. The last time the court ruled on creationism ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 10 Oct 2005 by nemo In light of Pennock’s defense of methodological naturalism in the Dover Trial Evolution News And Views recounts the history of Michael Ruse travelling down this road. The later book But is it Science? contains Laudan’s little known, ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
ID, Mimetics, take your pick
| 9 Oct 2005 by nemo Darwinists understandably fear a kind of take over of biology by ID, but is memetics any better. The sheer stupidity of this attempt to rewrite every cultural discourse. C’mon, this is an oligopolic market. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Evolution and ethics
| 9 Oct 2005 by nemo The previous post raises the question of the ‘evolution of freedom’ which is no abstraction, being tantamount to a correct account of the evolution of ethics. The university system could hardly enforce a Darwinian account of that as ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Academic freedom in action
| 9 Oct 2005 by nemo Inside Higher Ed documents the edict promulagaions coming down, Drawing a Line in the Academic Sand. Thusly,. In case any faculty members in the natural sciences at the University of Idaho were not sure whether “intelligent design” was ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
ID: Win , place, or show?
| 8 Oct 2005 by nemo Twin articles at Tech Central Station, Descent of Man in Dover,. Why Intelligent Design is Going to Win. It would seem to me very doubtful if even the conservative establishment would ever let ID win, but then I don’t predict. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
The Uses of Pseudo-Debate
| 7 Oct 2005 by nemo A human evolution writer for Science says, Let ‘intelligent design’ and science rumble. A terrific idea, but any good rumble needs more than two players, and the idea that ID and Darwinists debating would be a real debate is another of ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
A Tale of Two Frauds
| 6 Oct 2005 by nemo MSNBC has an article ‘Why Scientists Dismiss Intelligent Design’ with an interesting take on nylon and ID (but answered by Dembski at Uncommon Descent blog). The article complains that ID will be the death of science. Doubtful. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Why do people reject evolution?
| 4 Oct 2005 by nemo 3quarksdaily wonders why people reject evolution, reflecting on the issue of chance, as pharyngula then majikthise consider the question of random evolution and purpose. It is possibly futile to start analyzing the minds of those who ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Darwinism and The Coefficient of Murder
| 3 Oct 2005 by nemo In the endless verbiage about science in relation to evolution the plain fact is that selectionist is a theory of conflict used by elites to legitimate their tactics. “Botched Theories’ and The Coefficient of Murder ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Sam Harris and Secularism
| 3 Oct 2005 by nemo Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith has an article exploring the issue of rational mysticism, secularism, and the critical response to his book by the some of the more extreme secular humanists. He notes, “If anyone has written a ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 2 Oct 2005 by nemo The prospects don’t look good for the Dover case, although predictions are not possible. Analysis: ‘Intelligent design’ case to undergo 2-pronged test Sunday, October 02, 2005 By Bill Toland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
‘Coopting’ Dembski: Design For Atheists
| 1 Oct 2005 by nemo Coming from something closer to a Buddhist perspective, the current theism/atheism dialectic of the Darwin debate often seems a tussle of madmen. Thus the term ‘god’ tends toward the meaningless, making atheism equally problematical. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Science Education and Creationism
| 21 Sep 2005 by nemo Leiter Reports, "Why The Intelligent Design Con Plays So Well", cites an article from the New York times on the alarming lack of science education. While the point in general is well taken, the question of evolution is not so simple. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Universe in a Single Atom
| 21 Sep 2005 by nemo The Universe in a Single Atom : The Convergence of Science and Spirituality by Dalai Lama. Amazon: Buddhism, Science and Darwinism, September 21, 2005 Reviewer: John Landon “nemonemini”. This is a compelling discussion of Buddhism and ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Teilhardian bumper cars
| 29 Sep 2005 by nemo For the record I am reproducing some email posts/exchanges at the Teilhard group at yahoo, which started with a positive response to my article on the New Republic piece. http://www.history-and-evolution.com/evodocs/kant_on_design.htm ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
The Wars Over Evolution II
| 29 Sep 2005 by nemo The two books reviewed by Lewontin certainly deserve a response/essay from the perspective of the ‘eonic effect’ data, with its associated idea of the ‘eonic evolution of civilization’:. The New York Review of Books has an article by R. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
The Wars Over Evolution
| 29 Sep 2005 by nemo The New York Review of Books has an article by R. Lewontin. This is from Science For The People. The New York Review of Books Volume 52, Number 16 · October 20, 2005. The Wars Over Evolution. By Richard C. Lewontin ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
The Anti-Science Dragnet: Are You At Risk?
| 29 Sep 2005 by nemo One of the most dangerous charges against anyone these days is that of ‘anti-science’. No kidding. Jobs are at stake, you could be out in the wilderness. Now that the Darwin debate is in its ritual overdrive, the charge of anti-science ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Oh No! Methodological Naturalism
| 29 Sep 2005 by nemo The York Daily Record has an article on Pennock’s testimony at the Dover ‘Scopes II’ trial. Witness bashes intelligent design A philosopher of science said the controversial idea rejects science. By LAURI LEBO Daily Record/Sunday News ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Dalai Lama on evolution
| 19 Sep 2005 by nemo Times Review of The Universe in a Single Atom’: Reason and Faith By GEORGE JOHNSON Published: September 18, 2005. Johnson chides the Dalai Lama for showing reservations on ‘natural selection’ and randomness?? ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 19 Sep 2005 by nemo The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney. Amazon:. This is an eloquent but flawed indictment of the ways in which conservatives are doing an endrun around science to promote their various agendas. But as a science supporter, ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Darwin’s theory testable???
| 27 Sep 2005 by nemo The first day of the Dover trail summoned Dr. Kenneth Miller as an expert witness. The ACLU’s first expert witness, Dr. Kenneth Miller, testified that the scientific theory of intelligent design is untestable ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
WashPost kickoff on Dover
| 26 Sep 2005 by nemo Article in Washington Post New Analyses Bolster Central Tenets of Evolution Theory Pa. Trial Will Ask Whether ‘Alternatives’ Can Pass as Science. By Rick Weiss and David Brown Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, September 26, 2005; ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
History and Evolution Site: Upgrade
| 25 Sep 2005 by nemo The History and Evolution site now has a new Introduction webpage, as a Site Guide and traffic directory. The Site now has seven tutorials/study series, among them, on the Eonic Effect, the Axial Age, Kant and Philosophy of History, ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
What took you so long?
| 24 Sep 2005 by nemo A new website on Stephen J. Gould seems to be taking a cue from my approach, ditching natural selection hype. About time! “It is called the Stephen Jay Gould Initiative, named for the late, great exponent of non-Darwinian Evolution. ” ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Kansas Court Case
| 16 Sep 2005 by nemo The Lawrence Journal World has an article on a letter by a group of Nobel Prize winners defending Darwinism in the schools on the eve of the court case. As usual they bungled their case, and the confusion over evolution versus natural ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Shermer preaches to Dalai Lama
| 15 Sep 2005 by nemo Shermer from Skeptic takes on the Dalai Lama. Apparently having disposed of Christianity, the skeptics need new fields to conquer and wish to take on Buddhism, in the process wasting ammunition on the decoy of the laughably ‘exoteric’ ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
End of Faith
| 15 Sep 2005 by nemo The End of Faith Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris Amazon Review Religion and reason, September 15, 2005. Given the inertia of faith theology it is an uphill road to even discuss, let alone challenge, ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
ID in news
| 15 Sep 2005 by nemo Northwest Area mulls adding ‘intelligent design‘ to curriculum Citizens Voice, PA - 7 hours ago At a table at Curry Donuts in Shickshinny, three men said they hadn’t heard of "intelligent design," a theory the ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Republican War on Science
| 14 Sep 2005 by nemo Salon has an article on Chris Mooney’s The Republican War on Science exposing the tactics of the right on such issues as global warming, and the issue of evolution slips into the discussion, with the alarming suggestion that the Darwin ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 13 Sep 2005 by nemo Below is a passage from the Second Edition of World History and The Eonic Effect which might induce a sense of deja vu all over again on the design/Darwinism pseudo-debate, a high stakes legitimation struggle. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Anonymous Darwin Doubter?
| 13 Sep 2005 by nemo A quite compelling ‘must read’ My Conversation With A Cell Biologist About Evolution at Dawntreader, with ambiguous hints of dreaded post-Darwinian heresies afoot in the groves (of academe). What is the status of evolutionary theory ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
The Mousetrap
| 12 Sep 2005 by nemo An article The Mousetrap, by the economist Paulos, ties together Behe’s black box and mousetrap argument (which requires another web page), and the self-organization question of modern market economy, in the process expressing the ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Brain Evolution
| 12 Sep 2005 by nemo The blog Questionable Authority comments on an article in Science on brain evolution . In spite of the importance of this, to say nothing of the potential controversy, one can only protest the way the purely genetic view of human ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Ideology in plain sight
| 10 Sep 2005 by nemo An interesting article Who’s counting: Complexity and Intelligent Design , already commented on in a previous post (see below), raises the complex issue of evolutionary and economic issues. The persistent fallacy of this line of ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
‘Evolution Schmevolution
| 7 Sep 2005 by nemo ‘The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’ Presents ‘Evolution Schmevolution: A Daily Show Special Report’ Airing Nightly From September 12-15 at 11:00 PM*. NEW YORK, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ — Science vs. Religion. Evolution vs. Creation. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Undoing Darwin?
| 7 Sep 2005 by nemo The Columbia Journalism Review has an article by Nisbet and Moonery (”The Republican War on Science”), ” Undoing Darwin”. It is all very well to berate the coverage of evolution, but the real problem with the press/media in general is ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Evolution and Economic Ideology
| 7 Sep 2005 by nemo The ideology behind Darwinism has often been noted to resemble that of economic theory. It’s not accident! But the connection is so repressed into the unconscious that people think it a discovery to notice the resemblance. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Postdarwminism
| 6 Sep 2005 by nemo Kevin Kelly’s Out of Control is an online text, also available at Amazon, and here is Chapter 19, Postdarwinism. Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Lynn Margulis a Darwinist?
| 6 Sep 2005 by nemo Panda’s Thumb wishes to rescue Lynn Margulis for Darwinism, from Neodarwinism. Here is a passage from Kelly’s Out of Control, a good example of Darwin critics being drowned out in the noise of the current debate. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 5 Sep 2005 by nemo Panda’s Thumb responds to this, and I found this at the site:. The Wristwatch in the Woods: Remember your watch? Good, now just pretend you’re walking through the woods and just happen to come across a watch just like it and perfectly ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Deniable Darwin
| 5 Sep 2005 by nemo Panda’s Thumb takes on Berlinski’s challenge . In the meantime I discovered what I had thought unavailable save from Commentary’s commercial archive, to wit, Berlinski’s Deniable Darwin online, and reproduce it here. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Does Google Cheat?
| 5 Sep 2005 by nemo An email exchange on the way Google is biased toward various sites, leftist ones especially. What is ‘leftist’? I couldn’t exchange an email with most leftists these days, but somehow I am pegged a leftist. Very well, ultra far left, ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
ID in news
| 5 Sep 2005 by nemo Australian cardinal comfortable with Intelligent Design Catholic World News - 3 hours ago … sometimes evolution is presented "in an anti-God way." Where that is the case, he said, "I’d be happy for them to talk ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
West on ID in schools
| 4 Sep 2005 by nemo John West at Discovery Insitute disavows the attempts to put ID in schools. [..] A second misunderstanding is that proponents of intelligent design are crusading to have it required in public schools. In fact, they are doing the ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Hodgson’s Black Box
| 3 Sep 2005 by nemo The debate over evolution tends to founder on the design/divinity question. As Kant makes clear there are three metaphysical issues, divinity, soul, free will, that befuddle us metaphysically, cf. Visions of a Ghostseer for run down. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Macro/micro evolution
| 3 Sep 2005 by nemo An essay on ‘Darwinism’ from RedState.org commented on at length at Evolution Blog. The author of the essay sets himself up for confusion by the imprecise use of terms, and a lack of familiarity with the history of Darwinism, ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Katrina: Free Market Disaster Relief
| 2 Sep 2005 by nemo Michael Parenti comments on the Katrina relief effort, How the Free Market Killed New Orleans, at Zmag. Since this is an evolution blog, I am going to add a new category to this blog: critique of evolutionary economy. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
History and Evolution Site
| 2 Sep 2005 by nemo History and Evolution. At a time when theories of evolution are under renewed controversy, discussion is hampered by the remoteness of the phenomenon of evolution, and the use of indirect inference to speculate about deep time. ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
ID in Australia
| 2 Sep 2005 by nemo School to make evolution optional Australian, Australia - 1 hour ago … has moved quickly to incorporate the controversial Intelligent Design theory into its science classes as an alternative to the conventional theory of evolution … ... Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 26 Apr 2005 by john ... as if revolving around the 'antinomy of teleological judgment'. John LandonWorld History And The Eonic Effect2nd EditionSelections from new edition:http://eonix.8m.com Darwiniana: Evolution Blog http://eonix.8m.com/darwiniana.htm. Darwiniana - http://eonix.8m.com/darwiniana.htm |
Toward a secular Postdarwinism
| 24 May 2005 by john From Tech Central forum I wouldn't think intelligent design in the class room could ever be much fun. But then again dogma works both ways. I know from my own experience that my education didn't start til I graduated from college. ... Darwiniana - http://eonix.8m.com/darwiniana.htm |
UK scientists clone human embryo
| 23 May 2005 by john BBC 2005/05/19 British scientists say they have successfully cloned a human embryo - the country's first.The Newcastle University team took eggs from 11 women, removed the genetic material and replaced it with DNA from embryonic stem ... Darwiniana - http://eonix.8m.com/darwiniana.htm |
Not in Kansas anymore
| 23 May 2005 by john Local battles to force fundamentalist creationism into public schools are evolving into a national fight~ By ANDREW GUMBEL It’s easy, from the comparative safety of the West Coast, to make light of the recent evolution hearings before ... Darwiniana - http://eonix.8m.com/darwiniana.htm |