05May 2024 by Post

Is Darwinian Philosopher Daniel Dennett the End of an Era?

atheists, Christof Koch, Commentary, Consciousness Explained, Dan Falk, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Darwinians, David Berlinski, David Chalmers, Evolution, human mind, John Horgan, materialists, Nautilus, Neuroscience & Mind, Richard Dawkins, The Deniable Darwin, Uncommon Dissent, William Dembski
Dennett’s image of the human mind as a user-illusion was very fashionable but it never made any sense. Source
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19Apr 2024 by Post

Farewell to Daniel Dennett

aquatic ape, Boston, Commentary, copyright, Daniel Dennett, Darwinists, David Berlinski, Elaine Morgan, Evolution, evolutionary anthropologists, iconoclasts, Intelligent Design, ISI Books, letters, Michael Behe, MIT, Paul Nelson, Phillip Johnson, Richard Dawkins, smooth skin, The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis, Tufts University, Uncommon Dissent
Dennett noted that Paul Nelson and I were in the audience and would be speaking at Tufts that evening on intelligent design. Source
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01Apr 2024 by Post

Dawkins, Dennett, and the Taste for Iconoclasm

aquatic ape, Boston, Commentary, copyright, Daniel Dennett, Darwinists, David Berlinski, Elaine Morgan, Evolution, evolutionary anthropologists, iconoclasts, Intelligent Design, ISI Books, letters, Michael Behe, MIT, Phillip Johnson, Richard Dawkins, smooth skin, The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis, Tufts University, Uncommon Dissent
I’ve had two memorable encounters with Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, one with Dennett alone, the other with both together. Source
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30Mar 2024 by Post

“Creation Myths” Misquotes and Misrepresents Junk DNA Video

American Scientist, biochemistry, biologists, biology, Creation Myths, Dan Graur, Dan Stern Cardinale, DNA, ENCODE, Evolution, Ewan Birney, functionality, genetics, genome, human genome, Intelligent Design, John Stamatoyannopoulos, Junk DNA, junk RNA, Laurence Moran, Long Story Short, Nature (journal), repetitive DNA, Richard Dawkins, Rutgers University, species, transcriptional noise, transposable elements, YouTubers
Our video backs up what it says with clear quotes and references. We’ve provided more documentation here. Source
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28Mar 2024 by Post

New Long Story Video Tackles “A Battle of Predictions: Junk DNA”

BioEssays, biologists, biology, Carmen Sapienza, Columbia University, DNA, ENCODE, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, Forrest Mims, Francis Crick, Genome Biology and Evolution, genomes, Intelligent Design, John Bodnar, John Mattick, Jonathan Wells, Journal of Human Evolution, Junk DNA, Laurence Moran, Living with Darwin, Long Story Short, Nature (journal), Nature Methods, Oxford University Press, paradigm shift, Philip Kitcher, predictions, Richard Dawkins, Scientific American, Taylor & Francis, The Greatest Show on Earth, University of Toronto, W. Ford Doolittle, What’s in Your Genome, William Dembski
Something happened in 2012 that changed the entire debate in favor of the ID-based prediction that DNA would be largely functional. Source
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18Mar 2024 by Post

Ingenious Artistry in the Origin of Hummingbirds

artistry, Aves, Centropogon, contingency, death, Docimastes ensifer, Ensifera ensifera, Ernst Mayr, Eutoxeres, Evolution, females, genetic drift, happenstance, Heliconia, hummingbirds, Intelligent Design, Lophornis gouldii, males, marvelous spatuletail, Michael Behe, Modern Synthesis, mutations, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, pain, peacock, phenotype, plumage, red-tailed comet, references, Richard Dawkins, Sappho sparganurus, sexual dimorphism, sicklebills, Stephen Meyer, sword-billed hummingbird, Trochilidae, waste
In contrast with neo-Darwinism, I conclude that an absolutely ingenious artist was at work here, transcending all human abilities, ideas, and powers. Source
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07Mar 2024 by Post

Up from Dawkins: Summer Seminars Were a Turning Point for Me

academics, alumni, biology, Center for Science and Culture, Colorado Springs, Discovery Institute, Education, Engineering, Evolution, evolutionary, Glen Eyrie Castle, Human Errors, Intelligent Design, mathematical biology, misinformation, molecular biology, Nathan Lents, paleontology, population genetics, professionals, researchers, Richard Dawkins, scientific enterprise, scientists, students, Summer Seminars, The Blind Watchmaker, Unlocking the Mystery of Life
I wanted to determine whether I was, as Richard Dawkins asserted, an accident of nature. Or was I created by God? Source
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22Jan 2024 by Post

Watchdog Group Calls Professor Dave “Anti-Semite of the Week”; Plus an Appeal to the New Atheists

anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, beheadings, colonizers, Dave Farina, Evolution, evolutionists, Hamas, Holocaust deniers, IDF, insults, Intelligent Design, Iran, Israel, Jerry Coyne, Jewish people, Judaism, Lawrence Krauss, Michael Shermer, New Atheists, Palestinians, pogrom, Professor Dave Explains, rape, Richard Dawkins, science educator, StopAntisemitism, terrorists, ultra-Orthodox Jews, Why Evolution Is True, YouTube videos, Zionism, Zionist State
Does this have anything to do with intelligent design and the evolution debate? Yes, two things. Source
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15Jan 2024 by Post

Fooled by Darwinism: A Scholar’s Cautionary Tale

ancient Greeks, Antony Flew, atheists, Bertrand Russell, crypto-animism, Darwinian materialism, Evolution, fatalism, geneticists, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, John Updike, Middle Ages, natural selection, Neil Thomas, paganism, paleontologists, Podcast, poetry, Richard Dawkins, skepticism, Taking Leave of Darwin, theistic humanism
Neil Thomas links the posturing of atheists Richard Dawkins and Bertrand Russell with the fatalism of poetry stretching back to the Middle Ages, and further. Source
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