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Freudians Slip
“Theodore Dalrymple” not only has one of the most droll pen names I have seen (the man is a doctor who enjoys his privacy), but he also is one of England’s best writers on social issues–and its finest contrarian. One of his favorite targets is scientism and the ways it ravages the poor and ignorant. In this review in The New York Sun he is singing a song whose tune I know well and whose lyrics I never tire of: “Marx is Dead, Freud is Dead, and by the way, so is Darwin.”
Biology Replaces Technology as Scientists Plan to Use Flagellar Pathways to Power Nano-Bots
Technology often aims to imitate biology. But sometimes engineers find that biology itself is a superior replacement for our best technology. This may increasingly be the case for nano-technology, as MSNBC reports that the “[f]lagellum could potentially provide locomotion … to send future nanobots or other tiny medical devices zooming around the human body.” According to the article, engineers have found that a useful mechanism for transporting ATP, an energy-molecule of biology, is found within the energy-transport system that runs along the cilia of sperm (cilia are also sometimes called flagella, as is the case in this MSNBC article). The article reports that there are plans to integrate other components from biology into nano-biomedical devices. The integration of biology into Read More ›
In Texas, Here Comes the Rain Again
Like rain dancers, Darwinists in Texas are busily engaging in political cloud seeding, trying to whip up a storm of controversy about science education. As usual they mistakenly equate creationism with intelligent design, knowing full well that the two are very different. The drum beat of these evolutionary rain makers started up last summer when the Dallas Morning News published a thumb-sucker of a story about the majority of the state board of education’s oppostion to inserting ID into Texas science classes. Even though it was clear that no one was proposing inserting ID into the curriculum, all of sudden Darwinists began chanting that the sky was falling. Throughout the fall they picked up the tempo, constantly, falsely claiming that Read More ›
Salvo Magazine Issue on Intelligent Design
Salvo magazine’s latest issue is out just this week and it’s almost entirely focused on ID. James Kushiner, publisher of Touchstone Magazine, opens the issue by asking, Are these really the last days of Darwin? and suggesting that readers let the evidence speak and then decide for themselves. The magazine has a number of excellent articles pertaining to all the different aspects of the debate over intelligent design, penned by a veritable who’s who of intelligent design scientists and scholars, including: Michael Behe, John Bloom, Raymond Bohlin, Larry Caldwell, Seth Cooper, Caroline Crocker, William Dembski, Michael Egnor, Logan Paul Gage, Guillermo Gonzalez, Phillip Johnson, Casey Luskin, Angus Menuge, Stephen Meyer, Paul Nelson, Denyse O’Leary, Jay Richards, Ralph Seelke, Geoffrey Simmons, Read More ›
Upcoming Darwin Day Events Featuring CSC Senior Fellow John West
CSC senior fellow John West will be speaking at a number of events in conjunction with Darwin Day. Wednesday, February 6, 20084:30-6:00 pm at Discovery Institute, Seattle If you are in Seattle you can hear Dr. West at the taping or our annual ID The Future Darwin Day Event, Proselytizing for Darwin’s God in the Classroom. If you can’t attend the taping, be sure to tune on Tuesday Feb. 12 and watch the event at www.idthefuture.com. More info here. If you are in Washington DC there will be two chances to see Dr. West. February 8, 2008, NoonGod, Science and the Presidential Campaign of 2008 A public lecture by Dr. John West, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute, and author of Darwin Read More ›