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Intelligent Design Group Urges California High School to Change Course or Remove Intelligent Design

*Intelligent Design Group Urges California High School to Change Course or Remove Intelligent Design* In the letter a Discovery Institute attorney writes: “The title and nature of this course are problematic and appear to misrepresent the content of the course and intelligent design.” The letter later urges the district to: “either reformulate the course by removing the young earth creationist materials or retitle the course as a course not focused on intelligent design.” Read the rest Evolution News & Views, www.scienceandculture.com. Read More ›

KU Darwinists Duck Intelligent Design Debate

I wonder if Krishtalka could at least take the time to show that intelligent design is a religion-based argument. Let's set the bar really low for his opening statement. Find a passage anywhere in Dembski's Cambridge University Press monograph, The Design Inference, or in his follow-up academic book on the subject, No Free Lunch , that bases one of its arguments on a religious premise, that is, appeals to religious authority. Read More ›

In Ohio Darwinist Admits Plan to Burn Evolution Critics

*In Ohio Darwinist Admits Plan to Burn Evolution Critics * This reveals the mindset of so many Darwinists: they are not tolerant of those who dissent from their views. So dogmatic are they that they not only oppose the teaching of the views of scientists who dissent from Neo-Darwinism, but they refuse to co-exist with them in the university setting. So much for academic freedom and collegiality. If there were any doubts about Darwinist dogmatism, this lays them to rest. Read the rest at Evolution News & Views, www.evolutuionnews.org. Read More ›

Dogmatic Darwinists Strike Again: Americans United for the Separation of Students and Science

*Dogmatic Darwinists Strike Again: Americans United for the Separation of Students and Science* We thought the Darwinists were willing to see non-evolutionary ideas considered in non-science courses. Turns out they were lying. Rev. Barry Lynn, who leads Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, apparently doesn't want ID even in a philosophy course, because it's too dangerous for young minds to learn about regardless of the venue. Read the rest at Evolution News & Views, www.scienceandculture.com. Read More ›

Discovery Institute Chides Ohio Activists for Trying to Dumb Down Evolution Education and Censor Science

*Discovery Institute Chides Ohio Activists for Trying to Dumb Down Evolution Education and Censor Science* “Ohio critics of intelligent design now want to dumb down the teaching of evolution by censoring out scientific evidence challenging Darwinism and that is bad for students and bad for science education,” said Casey Luskin, program officer for public policy and legal affairs with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture. “A lot of evidence surrounding evolution isn’t typically covered in biology courses. Students need to learn more about evolution, not less.” Read the rest at Evolution News & Views, www.scienceandculture.com. Read More ›

Darwinists Want To Ban Intelligent Design From Not Just Science Classrooms, But All Classrooms

*Darwinists Want To Ban Intelligent Design From Not Just Science Classrooms, But All Classrooms* “Pull the intelligent design class at Frazier Mountain High School,” was the letter’s ominous message, “or we file an injunction.” Read the rest at Evolution News & Views, www.scienceandculture.com. Read More ›

Dover in Review: An Analysis of Judge Jones’ Flawed Ruling in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District

During the Christmas break, I posted a four-part series analyzing various issues surrounding the Dover intelligent design ruling. In case you missed it, I am reposting the first three parts of the series here in one place. The analysis addresses the following questions:

  1. Is Judge Jones an activist judge?
  2. Did Judge Jones read the evidence submitted to him in the Dover trial?
  3. Did Judge Jones accurately describe the content and early versions of the ID textbook Of Pandas and People?
    The fourth part of the series can still be accessed here.

I. Is Judge Jones an activist judge?

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Intelligent Design is Empirically Testable and Makes Predictions

Among the many, many errors in Judge John Jones’ Dover vs. Kitzmiller opinion is the charge that intelligent design (ID) makes no empirically testable claims (see pp. 66 ff.). Similarly, other ID critics assert that intelligent design makes no testable predictions.1 In fact, intelligent design fulfills both criteria since it makes numerous empirically testable predictions. Read More ›

In Reporting Hot Button Issues Like Evolution It’s Hard for the Media to Not “Tell You What It Means”

When we launched this website almost exactly one year ago, it was because we were tired of the mainstream media ignoring, mischaracterizing and otherwise misreporting the views of scientists and scholars who dissent from Darwinism, as well as those scientists who also advocate for the theory of intelligent design. The mainstream media has noticed. Read more at Evolution, News & Views, www.scienceandculture.com. Read More ›

“Irreducible Hostility”: Knippenberg Analyzes Dover Judge’s Muddled Thinking on Intelligent Design

Professor Joseph Knippenberg of Oglethorpe Univerity has followed up his fine analysis of the Selman case with an equally insightful analysis of the Dover decision. According to Knippenberg, Judge Jones’s conclusions about the law depend upon a rather unsophisticated understanding of philosophy and theology. If ever there were need for a case study to demonstrate how the practice of law ought to rest on a foundation of liberal learning, Judge Jones’s opinion here would provide it.

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