I recently mentioned, on my blog, Dr. Granville Sewell, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas, El Paso, in relation to a new book of his, filled with essays about intelligent design and evolution, that was recently published by the Discovery Institute. Sewell is an intelligent design proponent/advocate, and due to his status as […]
Archive for the ‘Evolution’ Category
Intelligent design proponents, like those found at the Discovery Institute, love to claim that their intellectual weapon of choice, ID, has a basis in science and the scientific method. A prominent claim within this is that ID is falsifiable, just as all good (wait, no, just all) hypotheses must be in order to be scientific. […]
A link to some fascinating Jewish religious MP3s
Mapkats iPhone app tracks parking inspectors
Whale fossil!
Study finds some studies state the bleeding obvious
Richard Dawkins on ABC last night
This year has been an excellent one for new books — some of my favorites published this year include:
During a recent late-night attack of insomnia, spent cruising Youtube, I stumble on a debate from January 2008 between Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi Schmuley Boteach. The link is here, it is a little on the long side at an hour and a half but it well worth the look, if only to see Hitchens in […]
OK — I’ve been asked to write a post rather than writing bazillion word comments. First I should explain what I’m doing here as I’m not young or Australian and the thing I’m most skeptical about these days is skepticism itself (explaining why would have to be a topic for another post, but let’s just say for […]
A couple of days ago I started reading Richard Dawkins’ new book The Greatest Show on Earth, having just finished reading Christopher Hitchens’ God Is Not Great (yes that is just how cool I am). Dawkins’ new book details the evidence for evolution and explains the incredible power it has to give us understanding of […]
Hot on the tail of a DDoS attack on the Global Atheist Convention site, the Discovery Institute is reporting that the Shepherd Project Ministries website was attacked earlier this month in a similar way. The reason for the attack? The website contained information about upcoming talks by Discovery Institute fellows Stephen C Meyer, Michael Behe, […]
Seeing that the Atheist Foundation of Australia and Professor Richard Dawkins himself will understandably see no merit in responding to this self-promoting nobody, I thought I would respond publicly on their behalf.
To begin, let me quote a few excerpts from an article published this morning on Christianity Today titled Australian challenges Dawkins, the Goliath of atheists, […]
