Evidence for Intelligent Design Shot Down by Scientists (Really?)

The title of this article has me convinced! Okay, it doesn't. It does, however, demonstrate the flawed logic that masquerades as science but is nothing more than pre-suppositional philosophy in action. The point the ID'ers make is not that the proteins that operate the chemical functions in a cell were not around before, or were used for something else. The point they make is that if you have 14 parts for a biological process to take place (blood clotting for example), science has no explanation as to how all 14 processes could come together at once (emphasis upon at once) to bring about blood clotting. One cannot get to blood clotting by a process of slow steps involving natural selection and mutation.

The article essentially tries to say that ID'ers claim that these proteins were never around. This is nothing more than a red herring. This is not the argument at all, but sure sounds good if your predisposed to (foolishly) believe in macro-evolution.

Count Me A Skeptic

I've never been too impressed with paleontologists and this article about discovering whales in Pakistan demonstrates why. The scientist assumes that the baby whale is a fetus and the article gives no evidence to back this up. So when the baby whale has teeth the paleontologist assumes that this type of whale was born more prepared than other types of whales. An alternate assumption might be that the fetus was really a whale that had been born and had consequently began to grow it's teeth...just like other whales.

I could go on and on, but read it skeptically yourself and you will see that for every "discovery" the paleontologist makes there is an alternate possibility that he overlooks, he makes a bunch of assumptions based on his own preconceptions. This is science? Reminds me of a scene from an old Steve Martin movie where he is working at a gas station and someone is shooting at him with a high powered rifle and missing, destroying cans of oil one at a time. Martin looks at the oil and says, "Get down! Those oil cans are exploding!"

Echolocation in Bats

I've been fascinated by bats and how they navigate ever since I read Richard Dawkins' book (The Blind Watchmaker—I think it was that one), where he tries (and fails) to explain echolocation in terms of evolution (laughable if you ask me). At any rate, researchers have produced evidence that when bats fly in packs they "turn off" echolocation for long amounts of time (bat time that is) so their signals don't get confused.

Water Declares the Glory of God

Fascinating little piece on the nature and structure of water (which is not well understood). Bottom line: Water is much more complex and organized than scientists thought. Wow, evidence of complexity and design even though it "evolved." More information for evolutionists to blind themselves about.

The Brain Works in Mysterious Ways...

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Global Warming and Scientific "Consensus"

Since when does science rely on "consensus?" Isn't it supposed to rely on facts and data? Aren't we supposed to vigorously test our theories? Apparently not in the case of global warming. In this, consensus rules. This article is an excellent critique of the science of global warming.
From the article:

What I see, [in the science of global warming] rather, is something that political theorist Paul Feyerabend wrote about a long time ago in Against Method (1975): the tendency of scholars to protect their theories by building defences around them, rather than being the first to try to demolish their own proposition.

Will We Find the Higgs Boson?

This is a theoretical particle that may be proven to exist when the Large Hadron Collider opens up later this year in Switzerland. While the rest of the world yawns, for particle physicists the Collider is like a lifetime's worth of Christmas presents. They are all pretty excited. One of the funnier things about the article is a comment that might have been penned by my sister, Lynn.

A simpler version of a test would be to ask why, if you eat one pound of chocolate, do you gain a few lbs? Where did the other lbs. come from?
jen anderson, usa

Is Long Term Use of Botox Dangerous?

The problem is that we do not know the answer to that question, yet people feel free to use it (and look horrible in the process) not knowing what the long term consequences may be. Which gets me on to this whole Botox thing. Don't the people who use this know how stupid and horrible they look? Apparently not because more and more people are using it. I was just watching a weather caster this morning on the Weather Channel who had obviously botoxed herself and she looked like someone had pried her eyebrows apart with a chisel. What a stupid culture we live in.

A Cure for Alzheimer's?

Perhaps, but this discovery has a long way to go before anyone calls it a cure. A fascinating possibility however.

Science and Morality

A long, but fascinating discussion of the science of morality (so-called) in the New York Times. The author does an excellent job of demonstrating why science is so helpless when it comes to morality, all the while implying that it will solve the great problem of a universal Moral Law and evolution.
The guy goes on for eight pages and comes close, but can't quite admit that, given the assumptions of evolution, there is no rational basis for a universal Moral Law even though we all show evidence for it. He admits this: Now, if the distinction between right and wrong is also a product of brain wiring, why should we believe it is any more real than the distinction between red and green? And if it is just a collective hallucination, how could we argue that evils like genocide and slavery are wrong for everyone, rather than just distasteful to us?
Answer: He has no clue, and must fall back on a vague theory of morality written into the fabric of the universe, much like physical laws, that science is yet to discover. Hmm...this sounds a lot like the Moral Law given by the creator of the universe to me.
This is evolutionary theory's great problem, trying to explain the Moral Law that infests all of us. If they would just pick up Mere Christianity and read the first two chapters, they'd understand.

So-called "Open-minded Science"

A roundup of the top ten news stories relating to intelligent design for 2007 (PDF). Notice especially the one concerning suppression of thought by the powers that be when someone does not toe the line of the scientific "faithful."

The Promise of (Ethical) Stem Cell Research

An amazing story about how fast research has come on making stem cells from human skin cells. Whether or not it is comparable to the Wright brothers first controlled flight remains to be seen, but sufficient progress has been made so that they guy who cloned "Dolly" the sheep has given up embryo research for following in the footsteps of the guys who discovered the skin cell method!

From Whence Cometh the Laws of Science?

Certainly the New York Times has no clue. Nor do most scientists, the majority of whom appear not to care (I have a sneaking suspicion that it's because they are afraid of the implications). What I find funny is the attempts to come up with a theory of how the laws of nature evolved. Worth the read just for that. The words that come to mind when pondering these theories are: idiotic, willfully ignorant, and hopeless. My favorite theory is the so-called multi-verse theory which basically says there's an infinite number of universes and our is just one, but we can know anything about the other zillion multi-verses. Wow, now there's a theory that would be tough to disprove, eh? Which brings to mind Paul's words: “For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.”
(Romans 1:19-21 ESV)

The Hand of the Creator

An amazing theory on how birds can navigate over thousands of miles of both land and water. They might be able to "see" magnetic fields. As usual the heavens declare the glory of God...

A Grand Theory of Everything (By a Surfer)

Now this is an odd article. A guy who spends most of the year surfing and snowboarding, has come up with an elegant and simple theory of everything, the Holy Grail of theoretical physics. Who knows whether or not he is correct, the beauty of the theory is that it is simple and doesn't require a host of new dimensions.

A Good Lesson on The Limits of Science

This article is unbelievable. Doctors tell a woman expecting twins that one of them will die in the womb (it's not developing normally...according to them), so the best thing would be for them to kill it. They try to do it, but are unsuccessful! Pictures of happy twins in article.

Science and (Extreme) Hubris

We will have the power of gods. So says professor Michio Kaku quoted in this article from the Telegraph (U.K.) looking at the future of science. Let's see, now where have I heard that before? Hmm...Oh, the Tower of Babel for one, and didn't Nebuchadnezzar the great king of Babylon say that, just before going crazy for seven years? Oh, and Alexander the Great just before he died. Somehow I think science will fair no better than those before it that had the hubris to believe they could have the power of the God!

Cape Buffaloes Kick Lion's Bazookas!

One of the more amazing videos you will ever see. Baby Cape Buffalo protected by it's herd from both Lions and Crocodiles. Amazing that the little guy even lived!

Big Brother Closer to Reality

An interesting story about tracking people through radio frequency identification (RFID) and wi-fi networks. How easily could this be abused to track all people all the time! Maybe technology is the beast of Revelation...

The Firmament Showeth His Handiwork

Deep in the Arctic Sea researchers have found more than 700 new species in a place that was once thought too hostile to contain life. How great is our God!