Blogs

Not nearly as much as you might think.

My op-ed piece published in The Calgary Herald, Saturday, August 16, 2008, responding to radio host and commentator Rob Breakenridge, with links to sources:

In rebuttal - Theory needs a paramedic, not more cheerleaders

Denyse O’Leary

Here's another attack on Expelled sociologist Streve Fuller, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, this time by Sahotra Sarkar at the University of Texas at Austin:

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In "Evolution vs. Naturalism: Why they are like oil and water", philosopher Alvin Plantinga comments (Books & Culture, July/August 2008),

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Evolving Toward a Compromise of Disinformation
by Kevin Wirth
ARN Director of Product Development
August 7, 2008

In a recent Washington Post article titled "Evolving Toward a Compromise" by Amy Binder and John H. Evans (Saturday, July 26, 2008, p. A15) [1] the authors make several assertions and claims about issues related to Intelligent Design and science education that are in dire need of reassessment.

Bring out your inner lab rat: Take this test to find out if you are truly an intelligent design type - or not

Also at The Post-Darwinist

Fish swap genes? Or Darwinists swap stories?

I've just got hold of Scott Hahn and Benjamin Wiker's Answering the New Atheism (Emmaus Road, 2008), which is a lot of fun. I will have more to say later when I have read more, but this for now: On the "new atheists' insistence that it can all happen by chance, they reply

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Well, diamonds go with everything. And what would summer be without another brand new theory of the origin of life? So far, I have heard at least fifty (soup, stew, pizza) - now diamonds.

Yes, the latest is that diamonds are a swirl's best friend, as Robert Roy Britt notes in "Diamonds May Have Jump-Started Life on Earth" (Fox News, July 28, 2008):

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For two hundred years, scientists have believed that the eyespots of butterflies and moths evolved to look like large eyes in order to frighten off predators. A bird might think that the bright eyespots are the eyes of a concealed cat, for example.

It sounds logical, but there is a hidden assumption: We are assuming that a predator such as a bird pays attention to the same features that we would.. But does it?

Tiffany Crawford (Canwest News Service July 18, 2008) reports,
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Canadians in four provinces reported seeing a record number of unidentified flying objects in 2007, according to an annual report released by a Winnipeg-based non-profit organization that has recorded UFO sightings since 1989.