http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/crevolist/ en-us Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:40:29 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405128/posts Canada’s Macleans news site recently published an article titled “Darwin movie too evolved for U.S. audiences”. The article refers to the decision of US film distributors to “pass” on the film “Creation”—the dramatized story of Charles Darwin’s struggle while writing the Origin of Species. The refusal to distribute a film premiered and acclaimed at the Toronto Film Festival seems to have again roused the Canadian media’s scorn of the “backward Americans” of which—according to Gallup—only 39% believe Darwin and his evolutionary theory. It is interesting how very differently the Canadian and world media treated America during WW II when far... CMI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405128/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:40:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405002/posts At National Review Online, conservative curmudgeon John Derbyshire has weighed in on the Climategate scandal by encouraging conservatives not to jump on the anti-science bandwagon. I share his worry and find his advice is good so far as it goes; but I think Derbyshire’s defense of science might actually encourage the skepticism he wants to prevent. Most of the trouble comes from his invocation of the word “science,” and his claim that science has a magisterium.His article is called “Trust Science.” I’m not sure what that means. What is “science,” and how do we “trust” it? Imagine if someone said:... The American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405002/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:24:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404772/posts Last February I mentioned the events that would commemorate the life and work of Charles Darwin in 2009. I had no idea at the time that I would be invited to participate in one of these events. But there I was, precisely 150 years after On the Origin of Species first appeared, seated with other scientists in front of a packed room that featured, among other interesting things, a life-sized model of a baleen whale. The venue was the National Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany, and the occasion was a panel discussion titled Design without a Designer? [1]... Biologic Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404772/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:03:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404624/posts David Queller and Joan Strassmann, evolutionary biologists at Rice University, recently proposed a new way to describe what makes an organism a unified whole. They defined an organism as an entity made up of parts that cooperate well for an overall purpose, and do so with minimal conflict. But how do parts like these get together, and where does purposeful behavior come from?... ICR News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404624/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:12:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404590/posts With millions of eyes on Copenhagen, this seems an appropriate time to ask whether ID thinking has any relevance to understanding the Earth's environment. Can design concepts help us weigh the diverse and often conflicting messages? I think ID is helpful, because features of the Earth's environments and ecologies start to take on new meaning. In this blog, I am thinking particularly of negative feedback mechanisms. Human design engineers will use negative feedback to promote stability and positive feedback to amplify an input signal. They select the mechanisms they need to achieve the desired effect. By analogy, if the Earth... Science Literature http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404590/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:24:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404250/posts “Darwin’s finches” are a variety of small black birds that were observed and collected by British naturalist Charles Darwin during his famous voyage on the H.M.S. Beagle in the early 1800s. Years later, Darwin argued that subtle variations in their beak sizes supported his concept that all organisms share a common ancestor (a theory known as macroevolution). The finches, whose technical name is Geospiza, have since become classic evolutionary icons... ICR News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404250/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:13:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403445/posts esearch has shown that humans like to help, even before they are old enough to have been taught how to do so. This innate characteristic distinguishes humans from their supposed closest evolutionary family member, the chimpanzee, which doesn’t demonstrate the same altruistic behavior. In studies on the subject, at only 18 months old, toddlers were observed to consistently aid unrelated adults in simple tasks such as opening a door or picking up a clothes pin. Researchers assumed then that altruism, or unselfish concern for the welfare of others, evolved early in humans. But does this conclusion necessarily follow from the... ICR News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403445/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 03:52:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403135/posts “The Totalities of Copenhagen” William Dembski Bret Stevens’ article today in the WSJ, “The Totalities of Copenhagen,” again shows the strong parallels between the global warming debate and the evolution debate, especially with the proclivity of AGW and evolution advocates to quash all dissent. Consider, from his piece, the following characteristics of the AGW advocates: ... Uncommon Descent http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403135/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:58:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402899/posts In his new book, The Deniable Darwin (Discovery Institute Press, 2009), published just before the ClimateGate scandal broke, mathematician David Berlinski explained that scientists should not be trusted to check themselves--no more than anyone else on the planet, and maybe less so, since grant money is involved. Now he writes on his blog, "I Told You So." From The Deniable Darwin: My own view, repeated in virtually all of my essays, is that the sense of skepticism engendered by the sciences would be far more appropriately directed toward the sciences than toward anything else. It is not a view that... Discovery News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402899/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 16:26:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402578/posts The current treatment of young-age creationists in the scientific community and society at large is unfair and unwise. Scientists and philosophers of science, including old-age creationists and naturalists, should respect youngage creationists as legitimate contributors to science. Young-age creationists offer to the current origins science establishment a competing rational viewpoint that will augment fruitful scientific investigation through increased accountability for scientists, introduction of original hypotheses and general epistemic improvement... Journal of Creation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402578/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 03:30:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402077/posts Dr. Henry M. Morris founded the Institute for Creation Research in 1970 with a vision to uncover and present evidence for the accuracy and authority of the Bible. For almost 40 years, ICR has distinguished itself as the leader in creation science research and education, ably assisted by the many fine scientists whom God has led to work here. These men and women have dedicated their training and skills to raising the banner for the truth of our Creator God. We would like you to meet our current on-site scientists and hear their thoughts on the purpose, significance, and importance... ICR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402077/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:33:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401818/posts Dec 4, 2009 — The facility with which some evolutionary biologists appeal to almost magical powers of evolution to explain anything and everything is revealed in some recent science articles. Whatever needs explaining is due to evolution – evidence or not. These four examples can be considered representative of the genre... CEH http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401818/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 03:20:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401741/posts New research out this week has resolved a long-standing, and important, quandary about the causes of global warming. While several models point to anthropogenic CO2 and other greenhouse gases as the leading cause of global warming, the warming trends do not quite match the history of anthropogenic CO2. In fact, shrinking glaciers and other undeniable evidences of warming trace back to about the mid seventeenth century. But this predates the significant rise in anthropogenic CO2 that came later in later centuries. Now environmental researchers have solved the puzzle... Darwin's God http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401741/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 00:38:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401067/posts Read the following mini-stories and much more by clicking the excerpt link below: 1. The Times: “Evidence of Life on Mars Lurks Beneath Surface of Meteorite, Nasa Experts Claim 2. PhysOrg: “‘Super-River’ Formed the English Channel” 3. Wired: “There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Simple’ Organism” 4. ScienceDaily: “Study Pits Man Versus Machine in Piecing Together 425-Million-Year-Old Jigsaw” 5. PhysOrg: “Bacterial Gut Symbionts Are Tightly Linked with the Evolution of Herbivory in Ants” 6. And Don’t Miss . . . AiG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401067/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 18:29:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400531/posts Dec 3, 2009 — In the previous entry, Darwin inspired some geologists, even though he was wrong. Here are some news stories showing nature inspiring engineers with wonders right under their noses... CEH http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400531/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 22:09:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400239/posts In May 2009, a remarkably well-preserved extinct primate, nicknamed “Ida,” was hailed as one of the most important fossil finds ever. It had features that some interpreted as a link between two primate body forms. At the time, ICR News suggested that its evolutionary significance was far overblown, predicting that the scientific consensus would offer retractions. Those retractions came three months later, confirming that the fossil―called Darwinius―was really just an extinct lemur variety... ICR News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400239/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:07:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399861/posts Natural selection and change, yes; Evolution, no --snip-- Summary 1.This episode talks much about change and natural selection, but fails to give any evidence that these produce evolution, other than for the various professors who assert that it does. 2.Darwin’s theory promoted the idea that man is “a beast with animal lusts and no morality”, and this has been gleefully accepted by much of modern society. 3.We might well ask: Why would any sane professor adopt and propagate a theory for which there is such paltry scientific evidence, which is an expression of hatred of God, and which demotes man... CMI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399861/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 02:22:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399414/posts Evolutionists retreating from the arena of science --snip-- Today, the Darwinian scientific consensus persists within almost every large university and governmental institution. But around the middle of the 20th century an interesting new trend emerged and has since become increasingly established. Evolutionary theorists have been forced, step by step, to steadily retreat from the evidence in the field. Some of the evidences mentioned earlier in this article were demonstrated to be frauds and hoaxes. Other discoveries have been a blow to the straightforward expectations and predictions of evolutionists. Increasingly, they have been forced to tack ad hoc mechanisms onto Darwin’s... CMI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399414/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 16:35:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398993/posts Dec 2, 2009 — Field geologists have revisited a site Darwin visited on the voyage of the Beagle, and found that he incorrectly interpreted what he found.  A large field of erratic boulders in Tierra del Fuego that have become known as “Darwin’s Boulders” were deposited by a completely different process than he thought.  The modern team, publishing in the Geological Society of America’s December issue of the GSA Today,1 noted that “Darwin’s thinking was profoundly influenced by Lyell’s obsession with large-scale, slow, vertical movements of the crust, especially as manifested in his theory of submergence and ice rafting to... CEH http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398993/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 03:13:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398497/posts Although creation-based organizations have reported for over a decade on the technical scientific journal articles published about soft tissue found inside dinosaur remains, mainstream media outlets have largely been silent on the subject. But a recent segment that aired on CBS’s 60 Minutes finally broke the news to a broader audience. The soft tissue issue may be gaining more traction, and even “may be changing the whole dino ballgame,” according to correspondent Lesley Stahl.[1] The program is currently viewable online at the CBS website. In a field test demonstration to determine whether a dinosaur fossil was real bone, and not... ICR News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398497/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 16:28:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398124/posts Need evidence for Darwinian evolution? Just make it up. That’s the lesson of Donald Prothero’s book, Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007). Prothero is a professor of geology at Occidental College in Los Angeles. On November 30, he teamed up with atheist Michael Shermer (founding publisher of Skeptic Magazine) to debate Stephen Meyer and Richard Sternberg of the Discovery Institute. Shermer wrote the foreword to Prothero’s book, calling it “the best book ever written on the subject.” In fact, “Don’s visual presentation of the fossil and genetic evidence for evolution is... Evolution News & Views http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398124/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 02:39:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397692/posts A new concept making its way through the scientific community holds that just a few key changes in the right genes will result in a whole new life form as different from its progenitor as a bird is from a lizard![1] This idea is being applied to a number of key problems in the evolutionary model, one of which is the lack of transitional forms in both the fossil record and the living (extant) record. The new concept supposedly adds support to the "punctuated equilibrium" model proposed by the late Harvard paleontologist Stephen J. Gould. Dr. Gould derived his ideas... ACTS & FACTS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397692/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 17:22:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394724/posts HUNTSVILLE, AL, Nov. 25 Christian Newswire -- Two creation films called "inappropriate" were denied the opportunity to be shown in government facilities this week--which marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species". While the intelligent design film "Darwin's Dilemma: The Mystery of the Cambrian Fossil Record" has not been granted permission for a showing in California, "The Mysterious Islands", a new 90-minute Vision Forum film that challenges Darwin's evolution by taking audiences back to engage the enchanted Galapagos Islands, has enjoyed a victory and will premiere as previously scheduled tonight, Nov. 25, at 6:30 PM, at... ChristianNewsWire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394724/posts#comment Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:56:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394541/posts 3 Trees Said to Prove Warming! --snip-- That's another thing, folks. People said, "I don't get why you believe in God, Rush. Your belief in God, how does that tell you that global warming is a hoax?" Well, belief in God is a very personal thing, but I happen to believe in a loving God of creation -- and I just intellectually cannot accept the fact that a loving God which has created all this beauty and has blessed this country -- I cannot believe that a God like that -- would punish the human being he created for progress,... RushLimbaugh.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394541/posts#comment Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:33:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394510/posts CNN correspondent Max Foster’s short report about Richard Dawkins on Tuesday’s Situation Room played more like a commercial which promoted the militant atheist’s new book. Despite Dawkins’s past inflammatory statements about Christianity, Foster only labeled him “an outspoken critic of creationism....[whose] atheist views have put him at the center of controversy” [audio clip available here]. Anchor Suzanne Malveaux’s introduction for the correspondent’s report highlighted the 150th anniversary of the printing of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species,” and how Dawkins was a “controversial successor [to Darwin] carrying the torch for evolution.” Foster gave a very basic description of Dawkins’s... NewsBusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394510/posts#comment Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:26:24 GMT