Everyone agrees evolution is a fact if we define it as change over time. Darwinism on the other hand extends that change to common descent through novel mutations. But what happens when there is no novel mutations over billions of years, well that’s…
That said, it occurred to me that Charles Darwin voiced a deeper doubt, of relevance to all of Meyer’s critics. In a letter to William Graham on July 3, 1881, Darwin wrote: Nevertheless you have expressed my inward conviction, though far more vividly…
Michael Patton over at Parchment and Pen posted this comparison from the atheists to ridicule Christians. A Letter to (Some) Atheists I would like to offer my counter comparison based on their theme to make a counter-point. Santa vs Atheism
A few weeks ago PZ defended his religion of Darwinism in the post Darwin and the vermiform appendix. PZ Myers is a Darwinian Prior, who refuse to allow silly things like facts stand in the way of his worship of atheism. So when…
I know I am being redundant with the post title. Invoking Darwin’s Theory to Argue for Inferiority of Blacks He says that he is “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their…
This post is created to hold the OT comments from Methodological Naturalism: Is it Necessary for Science?
In many discussions across the blogoshere about the existence of God or supernatural entities, the claim is often made that there’s no reason to think that such things exist because there simply is “no evidence”. Those who do think such entities exist are…
I’ve recently had the “privilege” of discussing some of the implications of so-called methodological naturalism (MN) on one or two blogs. For Darwinists, especially Darwinists who take philosophical naturalism (PN) as true, MN is an absolute necessity for scientific practice. Thus MN becomes…
Clark Adams was on the board of directors of Internet Infidels, the organization that hosts the infamous “swamp” (the infidels creation/evolution discussion board). It was the swamp creatures the heroic ID proponents and creationists have fought on the internet in various places for…
While not every Darwinist is an atheist, just about every atheist is a Darwinist. So don’t tell me that there is no connection between ID, Darwinism and Atheism. Thank you to EN&V for bringing this bigotry to our attention and another demonstration of…