Tag: Kenneth Miller
“Pale, Small, Silly, Nerdy”: NY Times Gives a Devastating Smack to New Atheists’ Favorite Cosmologist
“Where, for starters, are the laws of quantum mechanics themselves supposed to have come from?”
Why It Pays to Go Hear Darwin Apologists
An email correspondent writes to us noting his recent experience attending “Darwin on the Palouse” out at Washington State University.
On Darwin Day, Pushing the “Anti-Science” Panic Button
It’s a rare thing when we can get the Darwinists who spend so much time denouncing intelligent design to actually argue with us about the science.
Dover Generates Intellectual Ferment
The Kitzmiller vs. Dover trial has generated much talk on the internet about Darwinism and the theory of intelligent design, some of it trenchant, much of it stimulating. The American Scientific Affiliation is discussing it here. One ASA member, Ted Davis, a friendly critic of intelligent design interested in more open debate on the question of origins, provides a favorable review of evolutionist Kenneth Miller’s expert testimony, describing it as “superb testimony … on all counts.” He also provides intriguing if less flattering analysis of Friday’s expert testimony here:
Boilerplate Seeking Baptist
Having been at the federal courthouse for three days watching Kitzmiller vs. Dover unfold from the press side of the gallery, let me just say that this is so accurate it isn’t even funny. On the first day I spotted biologists Kenneth Miller and Michael Behe, expert witnesses for the two sides of the lawsuit; they were approached now and again by some member of the media. But who was this, during the break, mobbed by cameras and reporters outside the courthouse? Some Nobel Laureate called in to testify for the ACLU? Philosopher Antony Flew fetched over from England to testify for the defense? Who could this slight, intelligent-looking older man possibly be to generate such excitement? It turned out Read More ›