AAAS Response to “Expelled”

Religion and Science
I don’t personally agree with all of the viewpoints, but I think that this video, thanks to The Panda’s Thumb, helps to illustrate Stephen’s position.  Intelligent Design is a misdirection to try to show that science is an attempted refutation of a Creator, when in reality science is a method for exploring nature [...]

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“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect…”

During my romantic stroll through Uncommon Descent many weeks ago, I was struck by one of the recurring claims of some of the residents of that asylum.  The claim is that “design” in nature is what a Christian should expect to see, based on some basic biblical pronouncements concerning God and his creation.  Here’s an [...]

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Thoughts on “respecting” religion

Mike has brought up the question of “respect” for religion again, this time drawing some interesting parallels between a fictionalization of the life of Muhammad and the desecration of a Eucharistic wafer by atheist blogger PZ Myers.  We had an interesting discussion of the desecration a month ago, and I emphasized my view that there [...]

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I Am Only a Mortal, Like You

(cross-posted from Tangled Up in Blue Guy)
More Book Hysteria
Stephanie has an alert on a book being pulled from the presses based on a review by a scholar in Texas.  The book hasn’t even hit galleys yet, only reached advanced preview copy stage and already calls have been placed by people who haven’t read the manuscript [...]

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Seven Years of Shackled Stem Cell Science

Today marks the seventh anniversary of George W. Bush’s controversial policy banning federally sponsored research on embryonic stem cell lines.  I still remember when I heard his speech: I was on a mission to find a part for an art project I was working on – there’s an ‘antique electronics’ store in North Seattle I [...]

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