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September 7th, 2010 | Category: this week in intelligent designIntelligent design news from the 1st of September to the 7th of the September, 2010.
Another week observing the intelligent design movement, another week observing their religious influences and biases. Really, never has a week on the blogs of the Discovery Institute been so charged with religious energy: we had pieces on Stephen Hawking and his statements on physics and God, evolutionary psychology and morality, and the Discovery Channel hostage-taker and his “Darwinian” motivations. For a movement that is supposedly all about science, it sure does talk about religion a lot.
Careful, Discovery Institute, seams are coming apart and your biased underwear is showing through the gaping hole in your expensive pants.
» Continue reading “This Week in Intelligent Design – 07/09/10″
Intelligent design news from the 25th of August to the 31st of August, 2010.
This week was a standard week for the online presence of the intelligent design movement – nothing special, but nothing particularly boring. Just your stock-standard anti-scientific writing, with an extremely liberal (more like conservative) dose of Denyse O’Leary. Strap yourself in, it’s going to be a (slightly-shorter-than-usual) wild ride. How far do you think you can read?
» Continue reading “This Week in Intelligent Design – 31/08/10″
Intelligent design news from the 18th of August to the 24th of August, 2010.
Not a lot happened this week in the realm of intelligent design activism, which suited me just perfectly, because I’ve been spending a lot of time between multiple projects: There’s Chemistry Between Us, the UMSS (we have an event tomorrow at Melbourne Uni – you should come along), trying to comprehend what happened in the Australian Federal election on the weekend… You know, those sorts of things.
But it’s always good to have a weekly “grounding” – finding out what the Discovery Institute and its friends have been up to while you were away. It just puts things into perspective, whatever perspective that may be.
» Continue reading “This Week in Intelligent Design – 24/08/10″
Intelligent design news from the 11th of August to the 17th of August, 2010.
Here I was thinking that the Discovery Institute and friends were going to continue their trend of delivering fewer and fewer blog posts every week. I even thought they hadn’t noticed what they were doing. Clearly, I was wrong. I mean, wow – Uncommon Descent went on a posting spree this week, throwing out articles about any little thing that crossed their mind. Sure, there were the usual comments on breaking scientific research that the authors think keep evolutionary biologists up at night, but most of what was posted was pure filler, meant to keep the masses happy and frothing at the mouth about the state of the scientific community with regards to intelligent design.
That being said, there were a few “serious” articles, so they will be focused on, but I won’t be able to resist a roundup of all the brief and superfluous opinion pieces.
» Continue reading “This Week in Intelligent Design – 17/08/10″
Intelligent design news from the 4th of August to the 10th of August, 2010.
A comeback! Finally! Kind of! You see, if you glanced at my RSS feeds folder titled “Intelligent Design” right now, you could be forgiven for immediately thinking that ID proponents have been back on their game this week, showing Big Darwinism who’s who in the intellectual battleground that is the Internet. However, as will soon become clear, this is a grand illusion, an illusion magically produced by everyone’s favourite pseudo-intellectual – yes, the one and only Casey Luskin. He’s been quite busy this week, as has Denyse O’Leary (everyone’s second-favourite pseudo-intellectual, funnily enough), meaning that ID blogs have been filled to the brim with faux-scientific arrogance and claims about the adverse social impacts of Darwin’s crazy ideas.
Enough chat, let’s get straight into it. Casey’s series of posts will be serving as the focus.
» Continue reading “This Week in Intelligent Design – 10/08/10″
Intelligent design news from the 28th of July to the 3rd of August, 2010.
Pro-ID blogs made a slight comeback this week in terms of their output, but post volume still remains far below expected levels. It is rumoured that senior fellows at the Discovery Institute are demanding a sharp increase from their workers before the second quarter, although analysts predict this may be asking too much. A government bailout, comprising of multiple injections of fresh rhetoric and misinformation, may soon be needed if the intelligent design industry is to remain viable.
» Continue reading “This Week in Intelligent Design – 03/08/10″
Intelligent design news from the 20th of July to the 27th of July, 2010.
Another week of slow news from the world of intelligent design, with much cross-posting from the Discovery Institute amongst its many blogs, probably to make it seem like they had more things to talk about than they did. A useful tactic, I’m sure. Perhaps we skeptics should try it some time? Let’s all just re-blog the same post for a few days and see if anyone notices. I bet they won’t.
So, this week I’ll be laying into a few meaty blog posts like usual, but I’ll also add on at the end some quick links to less important posts that don’t require quite so much attention. It’ll make the experience more… comprehensive and fulfilling. Probably.
» Continue reading “This Week in Intelligent Design – 27/07/10″
Intelligent design news from the 13th of July to the 19th of July, 2010.
The reduction in volume of blog posts and articles from the Discovery Institute and friends continued this week, cementing it as a three-week trend. What are they planning? Are they organising something big, or are they truly running out of things to say? Hopefully it’s the latter, but I wouldn’t put it past them to focus their energy on a big project. Hmm, I suppose we’ll see in the coming months.
Plus, it’s Casey Luskin Week – all of this week’s ID articles were written by Casey, the attorney-cum-pseudoscientist we all love to subtly patronise! [...]
Intelligent design news from the 6th of July to the 12th of July, 2010.
Again, another week of minimal activity from the Discovery Institute and friends! Will this be a lasting trend? Oh please, non-deity Charles Darwin, please let this be a lasting trend.
To start with (in a not-very-newsworthy kind of way), Kevin Wirth never finished his “conversation” with me about Dr. Caroline Crocker and her new book Free to Think in the comments of last week’s This Week in Intelligent Design. I’ll tentatively put that down to the very busy schedule he has publicising Free to Think, which may become the next Signature in the Cell [...]
Intelligent design news from the 31st of June to the 5th of July, 2010.
News from the world of the Discovery Institute was slightly slow this week, so I’m going to take that as a sign that we “Darwinists” were less religious in our thinking, more correct about the science of evolutionary biology, and uncovered fewer ground-shaking pieces of evidence against evolution that we refuse to acknowledge the implications of than the past few weeks. Okay, I can believe that… I suppose.
What really shocked me, beyond the lack of anti-scientific outpouring, was that nobody from the Discovery Institute wrote about this. Come on! Fossils are discovered that push [...]
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