See:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=65580
Article reads: According to ICR, Texas “denied the application of ICRGS because its program is based on a creationist interpretation of scientific data rather than an evolutionary interpretation, which is prevalent in public education.”
Entries from August 2008
Texas accused of viewpoint discimination
May 30th, 2008 · No Comments
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My intuitionist definition of intelligent design
May 29th, 2008 · No Comments
You might recall the Star Trek episode where Captain Kirk convinces a computer automation of an inheriant error in its calculation. The computer, having been convinced of the authenticity of revealed ontic meaning, is found repeating the following mantra in increasing frequency leading to a screech and breakdown: ” Error! Error! It does not computer! […]
Tags: Stephen P. Smith · evolution
Embracing Mind
May 28th, 2008 · No Comments
See my Amazon review of Wallace’s book:
MyReviewofWallace’sEmbracingMind
Wallace (and Holen) do a very good job in “Embracing Mind.” They break the his book down into three parts.
In Part One, Wallace takes another look at science, and where science may drift off into scientism. Wallace (page 22) tells us where scientific materialism carries hidden metaphysical assumptions - ” […]
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ABC News buys/sells the canard
May 28th, 2008 · No Comments
See the sad New Scientist story regurgitated here:
ABCNews
Tags: Stephen P. Smith · evolution
New method to turn rice straw into biofuel
May 28th, 2008 · No Comments
See:
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=65388
Article reads: Now, scientist Xiujin Li and colleagues have treated rice straw with sodium hydroxide before allowing bacteria to ferment it into a biogas. That so-called pre-treatment increased biogas production by making more cellulose and other compositions in straw available for digestion by the bacteria.
Tags: Stephen P. Smith · science
More on the blind leading the blind
May 27th, 2008 · No Comments
It is too sad to even quote sections, but you can read it for yourself:
NewScientist
Update on “Expelled”
May 25th, 2008 · No Comments
See:
http://www.floridabaptistwitness.com/8891.article
Article reads: Associate producer Mark Mathis is among those who are pleased. The film had grossed nearly $7.5 million through Monday (May 20), which places it at No. 12 on the all-time list, just behind the 2003 documentary “Tupac: Resurrection” ($7.7 million). Whether Expelled can finish in the Top 10 all-time—the No. 10 movie is […]
Tags: Stephen P. Smith · evolution
Evolution and faith
May 24th, 2008 · No Comments
See editorial:
http://nn.byu.edu/story.cfm/68635
Butler writes: We need to recognize that science’s reach for parsimony has come to include a preference for naturalistic explanations that deny or ignore the existence of a higher power, divine design and intelligent creation. I have a difficult time comprehending a naturalistic evolution without the careful hand of an intelligent creator guiding development; […]
Tags: Stephen P. Smith · evolution
16% of teachers know something is wrong
May 21st, 2008 · No Comments
But they are called “creationist”:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=4895114&page=1
I guess that makes me a creationist for describing the self evident observation that Darwin’s theory is not the cornerstone to actual evolution; there never has been the right emotional temperment to test the religion of Darwin as Popper would have us do, so Kuhn was right on this one.
The […]
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reflections regarding evolutionary psychologies
May 20th, 2008 · No Comments
I hereon publicize a collection of musings about evolutionary psychologies. These thoughts derive mainly out of my explorations with self-development using the fourth way knowledge and are also the product of the digestion of my experience and observations of life. The central issue connecting them all is termed “ascendancy” and refers to the higher potential […]
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