Month: November 2012
Nagel and Dembski on Life and Mind
A defense of Thomas Nagel’s appeal to unknown “teleological principles.”
Rose-Colored Glasses: Lenski, Citrate, and BioLogos
Readers of my posts know that I’m a big fan of Professor Richard Lenski, a microbiologist at Michigan State University and member of the National Academy of Sciences.
On the Miller-Urey Experiment, Wikipedia Offers a Citation Bluff
Conventional wisdom among origin-of-life theorists holds that when you try to conduct Miller-Urey type experiments with the actual gasses present on the early Earth, you don’t get amino acids.
Human Evolution: A Facebook Dialog
Sometimes it might be a good idea to actually read what ID proponents write before critiquing it.
Magician’s Twin Documentary to Premiere on Satellite and Cable This Wednesday
More than a half century ago, C.S. Lewis warned of how science nevertheless could be twisted to attack religion, undermine ethics, and curtail human freedom.