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(1/2) Discovery Institute: Let the TRUTH Be Told
The Discovery Institute is the primary think-tank for the Intelligent Design movement. What can we determine about this organization based on its funding, personnel, and research record? Here's a link to this content on Digg: digg.com Here's the original "Wedge Strategy" document: www.antievolution.org (HTML version) www.antievolution.org (pdf version) For more about the Discovery Institute: en.wikipedia.org www.discovery.org Video clips used are under Fair Use sections 17 USC § 106 and 17 USC § 106A Clips are short, illustrate a point of argument for educational purposes, are by nature published interviews in the public forum of YouTube, and do not affect the livelihood of the Discovery Institute or its members or fellows.
Creationist "Discovery" Institute Busted.
Creationist organization the Discovery Institute is caught red handed in illegal censorship- ironically the same thing they whine about on a daily basis. Hypocrisy at its finest exposed. Takedown Notice: www.mediafire.com Original Video: www.youtube.com
The Discovery Institute Embarrasses Itself... again
The anti-science creationist propaganda machine has released a response to the challenge issued by Concordance to... discover... anything! Unfortunately, they show the same level of scientific knowledge, reason, and scruples that they show in everything else they post. Paper they bastardized: www.genetics.org
C0nc0rdance vs. the Discovery Institute
As promised, this is the Q&A session I had with the Discovery Institute at the recent SMU sponsored event, "4 Nails in Darwin's Coffin". For best results, I recommend using the interactive transcript. The full high resolution video of the entire event is available at www.mediafire.com for download. You are free to do with this video, and the other videos of the event, as you wish. Note that some of the downloadable files were too large, and are available as file-spanning .rar archive files. I apologize for the wordy, too-fast slides that I included. There was a lot of information that needed to be presented to understand why their technical arguments fail on a basic level. You may find that you need to pause the video, or watch it multiple times to get the full effect. The articles I cited/used: 1. My favorite, it refutes Doug Axe's 2004 JMB paper very clearly (free full text): www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 2. I borrowed very heavily from Arthur Hunt's analysis of Doug Axe's work on Panda's Thumb: pandasthumb.org 3. Doug Axe's 2004 JMB paper that he bases most of his argument on: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov I recorded the Q&A session with my Android phone in my pocket. Audio quality is a bit low, and you'll hear the creak of people's chairs as they got up to leave. Everyone was a bit tired of listening to these clowns. A viewer brought these sites to my attention, and I want to make it clear that the SMU Biology faculty generally oppose Intelligent Design: SMU Biology Professors Speak ...
Challenging the Discovery Institute to Discover
If people like the Discovery Institute want to put forward hypotheses such as intelligent design as an origin for the information in DNA, then that's fine, but if they want it to be taken seriously, they must provide some evidence to support it. The user C0nc0rdance has provided exactly such a method for them to do this. Its simple, find a gene without an evolutionary heritage. The genomes of about 180 life forms have been sequenced containing maybe a million genes, and thus far the Discovery Institute has shown saintly resistance to look for a single gene that shows signs of non-evolutionary origin. If you are an Intelligent Design Proponenist and think this would be an excellent method for presenting evidence to support ID, then arguably your best course of action would be to contact the Discovery Institute (www.discovery.org ) at info@discovery.org and suggest that the largest pro-intelligent design organisation actually looks for evidence to support their hypothesis. The core of this video was made by user C0nc0rdance www.youtube.com He makes excellent videos on science and defending science against dis-information. Personally I think the Discovery Institute will do their best to ignore this, after all they must have thought of this before, they just do not want to invalidate their hypothesis by trying.
Stephen C. Meyer: Is intelligent design science - Signature in the Cell
www.discovery.org Is Intelligent Design Science? In this short video, Dr. Stephen Meyer, author of Signature in the Cell (http explains why he thinks so. Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com Website: www.discovery.org
Visiting the Discovery Institute w Thunderf00t
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The truth about the Discovery Institute
PLEASE MIRROR as the Discovery Institute is known for its false DMCA complaints. Is Intelligent Design a real field of science? Let's examine what the Discovery Institute is working on. The list of articles "supporting" intelligent design, from the Discovery Institute site: www.discovery.org List of articles on the Biologic Institute: biologicinstitute.org A couple of funny articles from the magazine "Rivista di Biologia" www.tilgher.it www.tilgher.it Tax forms: www.charitynavigator.org www.guidestar.org www.guidestar.org www2.guidestar.org Information about the Biology, Geology, and Environment Science department of the Cleveland State University: Main site: www.ulib.csuohio.edu Budget: library.csuohio.edu Articles: auth.ohiolink.edu A special thanks to Gail for helping me out with the list of scientific papers. You made my day. CREDITS Music by Tryad: www.jamendo.com Picture By Jennifer Leigh: www.flickr.com Picture By woodleywonderworks www.flickr.com Picture By lofaesofa www.flickr.com Picture By kennymatic www.flickr.com Picture by Polimerek commons.wikimedia.org Picture By mikecogh www.flickr.com Picture By Alexandre Dulaunoy www.flickr.com Picture By Wesley Fryer www.flickr.com Picture By Earls37a www.flickr.com Picture By Alex E. Proimos www.flickr.com Picture By stu_spivack www.flickr.com Picture By epSos.de www.flickr.com Picture By Jake Wasdin www.flickr.com Picture By Phillie Casablanca www.flickr.com Picture By Chairman Meow www.flickr.com Picture By Orange ...
"Discovery" Institute Caught Illegally Censoring Videos
Apologies for the crackling voice- Im sick at the moment. Creationist stupidity never ceases to amaze me. How could they possibly be so stupid as to file a false DMCA claim against an educational video they dont even own the rights to!
(2/2) Discovery Institute: Let the TRUTH Be Told
The Discovery Institute is the primary think-tank for the Intelligent Design movement. What can we determine about this organization based on its funding, personnel, and research record? By popular request, here is the link to the Panda's Thumb article by Daniel Brooks on the Wistar Retrospective Symposium: pandasthumb.org The Wedge Document: www.antievolution.org www.antievolution.org More about the Biologic Insitute: en.wikipedia.org For more about the Discovery Institute: en.wikipedia.org www.discovery.org Video clips used are under Fair Use sections 17 USC § 106 and 17 USC § 106A Clips are short, illustrate a point of argument for educational purposes, are by nature published interviews in the public forum of YouTube, and do not affect the livelihood of the Discovery Institute or its members or fellows.
A Challenge for the Discovery Institute: Methodological Naturalism
The Discovery Institute's stated goal is the overthrow of scientific materialism. What does that mean, and why do they want to overthrow it? I have a challenge for the Discovery Institute in return. Can they produce some example of how a supernatural explanation has defeated scientific materialism in the past? For more information on this topic, I recommend the work of scientists Robert Pennock and Tom Schneider. How did they know it was the lettuce?, an article by Robert T Pennock www.msu.edu More about Dr. Pennock at his Michigan State faculty page www.msu.edu And his battle against IDC www.msu.edu Evolution simulation and information theory by Tom D Schneider, National Cancer Institute www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov
Discovery Institute on YouTube
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The Discovery Institute and Censorship
So the Discovery Institute have apparently sent one of their attack lemmings to file some false DMCAs to get videos they didnt like taken down. O dear DI someone has just pulled the bonehead maneuver! The bizarre thing is the Discovery Institute is essentially manned by lawyers, you would have thought they would have had some aversion to pulling the head in legal blender move.
DonExodus2, The Discovery Institute, and Censorship
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Dr. Jay Richards Discovery Institute Intelligent Design vs. Darwinian Evolution (part 1)
Jay Richards, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute where he directs the Center on Wealth, Poverty and Morality, and is a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics. Most recently he is the co-author with James Robison of the best-selling Indivisible: Restoring Faith, Family, and Freedom Before It's Too Late". In addition to writing many academic articles, books, and popular essays on a wide variety of subjects, he recently edited the new award winning anthology, God & Evolution: Protestants, Catholics and Jews Explore Darwin's Challenge to Faith . His previous book was Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem (HarperOne, May 2009), for which he received a Templeton Enterprise Award in 2010. Richards is also executive producer of several documentaries, including The Call of the Entrepreneur, The Birth of Freedom, and Effective Stewardship (Acton Media and Zondervan, 2009). He has been featured in several television-broadcast documentaries, including The Call of the Entrepreneur, The Case for a Creator, The Wonder of Soil, and The Privileged Planet, based on his book, The Privileged Planet, with astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez.
Challenging the Discovery Institute to Discover: Part 2
So our initial video to the Discovery Institute got two replies within the last week. The first came by way of the DI fellow William Dembskis blog, uncommon descent www.uncommondescent.com Who actually addressed their response to the well known science blog of PZ Myers of Pharyngula (recommended) scienceblogs.com the second came directly from DI Staff Casey Luskin. www.evolutionnews.org Casey has just earn himself the spotlight in WDPLAC part 30. This video deals mostly with the first reply, that deemed that a designer couldnt possibly left signs of a gene with a non-evolutionary origin. Yup thats right, apparently the intelligent designer is only capable of producing genes that are utterly indistinguishable from those produced by evolutionary processes. Hmmm. Anyway, the reply then rolls off into a straw-maned quote-mine of a BASIC Evolution vs Creationism textbook- yeah, I know exactly what you are thinking what a peculiar way to defend intelligent design Eventually it boils down to the staple of creationism, -same genes, same designer. This argument has been hammered many times with things like pseudo genes. What sort of designer makes genes, then switches them off etc etc etc. Eventually the quote-mined-straw-man of the creationists gets the only reply that its worthy of.
Discovery Institute Parody 1of5
The satire DiscoverInstituteID has been falsely DMCA'd by the Discovery Institute. ALL parody videos have been removed. Pt1 www.youtube.com Pt2 www.youtube.com Pt3 www.youtube.com Pt4 www.youtube.com Pt5 www.youtube.com This video series is a mirror in support of the channel DiscoveryInstituteID While the account name is "DiscoveryInstituteID"... not one of the videos had a single image or audio clip from the real Discovery Institute. They neither owned or created ANYTHING uploaded. The icon image is not created or owned by the Discovery Institute. That is an art piece not owned by DI, and the channel owner added the logo in Photoshop using a generic font (and connecting the I). Legal opinion has indicated that the logo used is not a trademark violation. www.youtube.com Censorship is not a valid form of argument.
Berlinski and the "Discovery" Institute 1/2
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY: I'm citing "Fair Use" under US Copyright Act, Title 17 512 (g)(f), specifically those clauses covering Comment and Criticism, as well as the DMCA. www.aclunc.org Also "Fair Dealing" under UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 c.48, Part 1(Copyright) Section 79.4a www.opsi.gov.uk Censorship is NOT a valid argument. This is a video made in response to a troll's claims about Berlinski and the Dishonesty Institute. I outline the Dishonesty Institute's aims, from their own material, the Wedge Document, and various Dishonesty Institute videos released over the years. I demonstrate, as others have done over the years, the dishonest tactics outlined by so-called "Intelligent Design" proponents, and why ID is nothing more than re-branded Creationism. References for all claims made in this video series (I've referenced Wikipedia because the original sources from the Wiki articles themselves are too lengthy for this video info bar, but if you do the non-lazy thing of looking at the references on the wiki pages themselves you'll see them all): Intelligent Design Movement: en.wikipedia.org retrieved 2010-07-24 Discovery Institute: en.wikipedia.org retrieved 2010-07-24 Wedge Strategy: en.wikipedia.org retrieved 2010-07-23 Jonathan Wells: en.wikipedia.org retrieved 2010-07-26 David Berlinski: en.wikipedia.org retrieved 2010-07-26 The Wedge Document (scanned): www.antievolution.org retrieved 2010-07-26
A Challenge for Intelligent Design: The Discovery Institute responds
Casey Luskin of the Discover Institute responded to our challenge. Original video here: www.youtube.com Not with any evidence of design, but with an explanation of why they aren't looking for it. The DI response can be found here: www.evolutionnews.org You can also read: www.uncommondescent.com darwins-god.blogspot.com
Discovery Institute On Trial... Again!
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Discovery Institute - Casey Luskin - Ignorance or something else?
This DonExodus2 video (Casey Luskin: Liar, Hypocrite, Imbecilic Assclown.) was dishonestly flagged. Original www.youtube.com Casey Luskin lies for Jesus in this Fox news interview. I also address Haeckels embryos. Special thanks to Pharyngula, who I gathered the moment of zen, (as well as Luskins prior Shubin attack from). The Luskin/wrist bone comedy can be found here: scienceblogs.com From New Scientist: "As we celebrate the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth, we await a third revolution that will see biology changed and strengthened. None of this should give succour to creationists, whose blinkered universe is doubtless already buzzing with the news that "New Scientist has announced Darwin was wrong". Expect to find excerpts ripped out of context and presented as evidence that biologists are deserting the theory of evolution en masse. They are not."
A Challenge to Proponents of Intelligent Design
This is my original video, which Thunderf00t made a lot more interesting in his version. I'm serious about this. If someone really thinks they can find a single gene that doesn't show homology and alternative function, I want to hear about it. I'll even help you get the results published, with full credits.
Discovery Institute - you spineless vermin - please dmca this video!
Firstly, sorry for the poor audio quality. I am struggling to get the mic to work properly. Thunderf00t's video "Challenging the Discovery Institute to Discover - Part 2" is here
PZ Myers Demolishes Discovery Institute Idiot Johnathan MacLatchie
Clip from a 51 minute video of PZ Myers Q&A Session in Glasgow. Link: www.youtube.com This idiot is Johnathan M, his whining found on Evolution News here: www.evolutionnews.org It seems he is claiming that HOX genes are evidence of intelligent design, not evolution, shown in this excerpt: Hox Genes Myers then progressed into a discussion of Hox genes, and their role in the regulation of Drosophila development, pointing out that one can find homologous Hox genes ordered in the same way in the chromosome of the mouse and Drosophila fruit fly. I have always tended to view the argument for common ancestry as being quite weak here. Such instances of similarity can surely be explained with reference to common design. And, at any rate, the conservation of these Hox genes and their utilisation in different ways in different organisms perhaps ought to be taken as suggestive of teleology or some kind of front-loaded design. The 2007 paper he references: Universal Genome in the Origin of Metazoa, makes no such claim of "some kind of front-loaded design". God, my biology background is woefully out of date, but it's not hard to see this DI bullshit. Of course, after that excerpt, he blows out bullshit that wasn't aksed to PZ Myers.
Discovery Institute Parody 2of5
The satire DiscoverInstituteID has been falsely DMCA'd by the Discovery Institute. ALL parody videos have been removed. Pt1 www.youtube.com Pt2 www.youtube.com Pt3 www.youtube.com Pt4 www.youtube.com Pt5 www.youtube.com This video series is a mirror in support of the channel DiscoveryInstituteID While the account name is "DiscoveryInstituteID"... not one of the videos had a single image or audio clip from the real Discovery Institute. They neither owned or created ANYTHING uploaded. The icon image is not created or owned by the Discovery Institute. That is an art piece not owned by DI, and the channel owner added the logo in Photoshop using a generic font (and connecting the I). Legal opinion has indicated that the logo used is not a trademark violation. www.youtube.com Censorship is not a valid form of argument.
Discovery Institute PWNS SELF
The Discovery Institute is a Creationist-Christian Reconstructionist "Think Tank" that wishes to see the United States become a Christian Nation that wants the United States to make Old Testement biblical law the basis of our legal system. Link to Article & Video on Charlie & Trisha Knuth. www.wfrv.com Link to Charlie Knuth's website. Go donate five dollars to help him pay for his treatment! www.caringbridge.org Link to the Discovery Institute's Website: www.discovery.org Link to Their "Bio-Ethics" page. www.discovery.org Link to the video by GodlessHayes that earned him his my wrath which led to his Shrimpy humiliation. www.youtube.com Go Subscribe to GodlessHayes and comment on his channel page; "GOD IS DEAD EAT SHELLFISH!!!"
Discovery Institute Parody 5of5
The satire DiscoverInstituteID has been falsely DMCA'd by the Discovery Institute. ALL parody videos have been removed. Pt1 www.youtube.com Pt2 www.youtube.com Pt3 www.youtube.com Pt4 www.youtube.com Pt5 www.youtube.com This video series is a mirror in support of the channel DiscoveryInstituteID While the account name is "DiscoveryInstituteID"... not one of the videos had a single image or audio clip from the real Discovery Institute. They neither owned or created ANYTHING uploaded. The icon image is not created or owned by the Discovery Institute. That is an art piece not owned by DI, and the channel owner added the logo in Photoshop using a generic font (and connecting the I). Legal opinion has indicated that the logo used is not a trademark violation. www.youtube.com Censorship is not a valid form of argument.
How The Discovery Institute Could Really 'Challenge Evolution' (v2)
Find an example of an ERV in the same location, in two different species, which is missing from another species widely believed to have descended from the common ancestor of the first two. If common descent is false, there's no reason this should be a problem.
Devil's Delusion Author David Berlinski
discovery.org - Bruce Chapman interviews Dr. David Berlinski on his book The Devil's Delusion Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions.
Sending Videos to the Discovery Institute
I'd like to see DI try to DMCA these videos... www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
Journey Inside The Cell
www.discovery.org This animation shows how the digital information encoded in DNA directs protein synthesis inside the cell and provides a unique look at the evidence for intelligent design as described in Dr. Stephen C. Meyers book Signature in the Cell. For more information visit http Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com Website: www.discovery.org
Junk DNA and Junk Arguments: Jonathan Wells' Lying for Rev. Moon
The Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jonathan Wells is lying for Reverend Sun Myung Moon (aka Jesus, Jr.) Dr. Wells has PhDs in biology and theology. Which is he using when he writes on behalf of the Discovery Institute? Is he a participant in the discovery of the natural world, or a jeering reject from the team, sitting on the sidelines shouting obscenities? Jonathan Wells original article: www.evolutionnews.org Junk DNA on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org Susumu Ohno on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org Jonathan Wells on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org
Why do people laugh at creationists? (part 30)
Following Casey Luskins flapping on the video Challenging the Discovery Institute to Discover, Luskin has earned himself the honor of being the subject of Why do people laugh at creationists Part 30. The Discovery Institute has all but abandoned intelligent design (the rebranding of creationism- see video) as a lost cause, they even go on record saying they dont think it should be taught in schools! They initially set up a peer review journal of their own (Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design) but abandoned it after they got called out on the lineage of intelligent design to creationism. Luskin helped set up intelligent design and evolution awareness clubs, but stated that the management believed the designer was the God of the Bible, and then happily goes on camera and states that intelligent design has nothing to do with religion, despite all the diagrams he has connecting the two on the IDEA webpage. What really astounds me about these guys is they have utterly lost, and yet they dont have the dignity to accept that they were wrong graciously. Instead all you get is a bunch of bitter misfits doing their best to sow disinformation and throw as much mud as possible but for what gain? All I see is a bunch of jerks committing spiteful intellectual vandalism for their personal gratification. Really what do these people hope to gain by pretending there is controversy where none exists?
Video 4 - Dear Discovery Institute - I'm waiting ... tick tock tick tock ....
This is the 4th video falsely dmca'd by the Discovery Institute. It can be downloaded from here
Discovery Dishonestly Demonizes Darwin
Update: The Discovery Institute has quietly changed their version of the video to acknowledge that the quotation is indeed from Richard Dawkins. The original version of the video can still be viewed here: www.youtube.com Original Video Description: In their twisted attempt to defend themselves against what they see as a threat to their version of Christianity, the Discovery Institute is lying to the people who visit their "faithandevolution.org" website.
Intelligent Alien Intervention Institute
A hypothetical dialogue between Gordon J. Glover and the official spokesperson of the Intelligent Alien Intervention Institute on Science NEWS. They discuss the Academic Freedom legislation that recently became law in Louisianna and how it might also help various theories of Paleo-Contact to be taught alongside mainstream archaeology in the public science classroom. Hint: this video is a parody mocking Intelligent Design theory and the Discovery Institute.
Discovery in Seattle
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Front-Loading & Theistic Evolution: Dr. Stephen Meyer Explains
www.discovery.org In this clip, author of Signature In The Cell, Dr. Stephen Meyer discusses the proposal of some theistic evolutionists that all of God's design of the world must have been "front-loaded" at the beginning of the universe. This is based on his essay in "God & Evolution Protestants, Catholics and Jews Explore Darwin's Challenge to Faith". For more information and other videos please visit the website at www.faithandevolution.org Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com Website: www.discovery.org
Why do people laugh at creationists? (part 13).
This video is copyright free for educational purposes. Feel free to mirror these videos with or without accreditation. For other videos of this genre check out www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com Part of a superb series of videos exposing the funny stupidity of creationists and why they deserve to be laughed at. In each case the creationist statements are shown to be outrageously stupid by even the most rudimentary knowledge of science. In this episode it is shown the creationist organization The Discovery Institute use their willful ignorance of DNA as 'evidence' that DNA is designed. The callow argument is simple to counter in that take an object such as a beach, ignore everything you know about beach formation, make some bogus calculation to show that it can't happen 'by chance', then conclude the Neptune, Lord of the sea did it. It is also highlighted that the creationist organization, The Discovery Institute seems to have an irrational fear of sworn testimony. An interesting phobia given that meant that even though they are the chief proponents of intelligent design, and that they were enlisted in professional witnesses in the Dover vs Kitzmiller trial, they all withdrew at short notice (presumably sensing the inevitable humiliating rout of creationist/ intelligent design), and then started grousing that the ruling was all the fault of the judge.
DNA Code: Man 1, God 0
A look at the myths contained within Steven C. Meyer's "Signature In The Cell", and a challenge to all believers of any faith: Why didn't YOUR god think of this? Links: The Discovery Institute www.discovery.org Dover Trial Overview en.wikipedia.org DonExodus2's YT Video on The Discovery Institute's 101 Scientists Against Evolution Lie www.youtube.com Dr. Peter Ward vs Dr. Steven C. Meyer (full debate) www.youtube.com Jeffrey Mark's Escaping Christianity Blog and Review of Meyer's Book www.escapingchristianity.com
Creationism on Huffington Post. My interview part 1/6.
This interview was conducted by the team at Agnostic Salvation Hour. The audio can be found here: agnosticsalvation.podomatic.com David Klinghoffer, from the Discovery Institute wrote an article with the usual ignorance and dishonest displayed by those at the DI. His article from HuffPo can be found here (www.huffingtonpost.com This list of logical fallacies and butchered science is taken apart in this interview. Its a good listen as it answers many of creationists claims, and is entertaining as well. Enjoy!
Creationism on Huffington Post. My interview part 4/6.
This interview was conducted by the team at Agnostic Salvation Hour. The audio can be found here: agnosticsalvation.podomatic.com David Klinghoffer, from the Discovery Institute wrote an article with the usual ignorance and dishonest displayed by those at the DI. His article from HuffPo can be found here (www.huffingtonpost.com This list of logical fallacies and butchered science is taken apart in this interview. Its a good listen as it answers many of creationists claims, and is entertaining as well. Enjoy!
Creationism on Huffington Post. My interview part 5/6.
This interview was conducted by the team at Agnostic Salvation Hour. The audio can be found here: agnosticsalvation.podomatic.com David Klinghoffer, from the Discovery Institute wrote an article with the usual ignorance and dishonest displayed by those at the DI. His article from HuffPo can be found here (www.huffingtonpost.com This list of logical fallacies and butchered science is taken apart in this interview. Its a good listen as it answers many of creationists claims, and is entertaining as well. Enjoy!
Creationism on Huffington Post. My interview part 6/6.
This interview was conducted by the team at Agnostic Salvation Hour. The audio can be found here: agnosticsalvation.podomatic.com David Klinghoffer, from the Discovery Institute wrote an article with the usual ignorance and dishonest displayed by those at the DI. His article from HuffPo can be found here (www.huffingtonpost.com This list of logical fallacies and butchered science is taken apart in this interview. Its a good listen as it answers many of creationists claims, and is entertaining as well. Enjoy!
Responding to the Youtube Challenge to Discovery Institute, Part 1
Part 2: www.youtube.com Its non-stop embarrassment when it comes to ID critics. A number of them give deliberate false claims when it comes to refuting ID. There was a certain youtube video posted by Darwinian fundamentalist PZ Myers entitled Challenging the Discovery Institute to Discover. The video was made by Thunderf00t (who made the false claim that Stephen Meyer was president of the Discovery Institute). You can see it here: www.youtube.com Discovery Institutes Casey Luskin responds to the myriad of false allegations made in this video. Heres a link: www.evolutionnews.org
Call to fix creationist abuse of the DMCA
DMCA abuse continues to be a favourite tactic of those wishing to supress knowledge in a dishonest attempt to protect them from having to think for themselves. This is also not below many of the creationist organisations such as the Discovery Institute who recently filed a DMCA against a DonExodus2 video exposing Casey Luskin. This video is a mirror of AndromedasWake video. Thanks to PZ Myers at Pharyngula for featuring this video. scienceblogs.com AW wrote: Apologies for the monotone narration, I drank a big glass of serious before recording this. It was supposed to be uploaded yesterday as just audio, but YouTube kept failing to process anything (oh, the irony...) so I added some pictures and re-uploaded. The Google Issues thread: is.gd The petition: is.gd Credit to CiphersSon and the several messages I received yesterday bringing this to my attention. Viva Free Speech!
Stephen Meyer on Intelligent Design: What is the origin of digital information found in DNA?
www.discovery.org Information is what runs the show in biology. The question is what is the source of the digital informaiton found in DNA? Stephen Meyer argues that only intelligence can produce information. Facebook www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com Website: www.discovery.org
Icons of Evolution 10th Anniversary: Paul Nelson
www.discovery.org 2010 marks the 10th anniversary of an important book called "Icons of Evolution Science or Myth? Why much of what we teach about evolution is wrong" (www.iconsofevolution.com). As part of our celebration of the book's publication we have invited a number of scientists and scholars to tell us what they thought when they first read Icons of Evolution and what they think the impact and importance of the book has been. The book shook the allegedly rock solid evidentiary foundation of Darwinian evolution. Author, Jonathan Wells exposed how many of the textbook examples of "evidence" for Darwinism are speculative at best and in some cases even based on falsified information. [Editor's Note "At 4:38 of this interview, Paul Nelson says that the Miller-Urey experiment is incorrectly interpreted by textbooks as having "synthesized life." What he meant to say was 'the building blocks of life.' Dr. Nelson regrets the error."] Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com Website: www.discovery.org
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