Ken Miller on Intelligent Design

This is a very long video (almost 2 hours) but quite worthwhile for anyone interested in understanding why intelligent design creationism is bad science. Especially interesting to me were the bits where Miller discusses evidence against irreducible complexity. Miller is a Roman Catholic biology professor at Brown University, and he believes that faith and science [...]

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Elegant Snaarsiverse

I bought Brian Greene’s best-selling popular science novel, “The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory” today. Hopefully, I’ll have something both philosophical and irrelevant to say about string theory after reading the book. But first off, let me say that string theory is really a fool’s quest, and here’s [...]

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Creation/Evolution controversy explained

It’s SO simple, really. Ken Ham, the protuberant creationist apologist, has a neatly packaged Answer-In-Genesis to the question of why Evolutionists “refuse” to believe. Be you creationist or evolutionist, you may be surprised to find out that the controversy is not about the actual evidence for or against your position. No, we can never look [...]

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okaaaaaaay …

Every day I take breaks from the work on my desk and I check out the latest news through my Yahoo! home page. Not often, but once in a while I check out the usually frivolous/inane/pointless/annoying comments that users post to the articles. The following post is no exception: Although nothing prevents you from dreaming [...]

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