Intelligent Design comes to Blighty
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More welcome than we'd have hoped More from that lovely bunch of people who we like to think of as creationists-with-a-website. Yes, the Intelligent Designers are back. Having had their bottoms soundly birched in the US, they are now determined to "educate" England's schoolkids about their utterly unscientific counter "theory" to evolution.â¦
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Science & environment: Bad science: Christmas is a time for harmless lies, the chocolatey indulgences of the thought world
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Popular books applying Darwinian logic to everything from religion to dating to dealmaking may fly off the shelves, but attempts to apply evolutionary theory to literary analysis tend to make novelists, English professors and other humanist types break out in hives.
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Not science, not likely to be science The government has announced that it will publish guidance for schools on how creationism and intelligent design relate to science teaching, and has reiterated that it sees no place for either on the science curriculum.â¦
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The announcement that British scientists have created an embryo containing the DNA of three people has bioethicists scratching their heads.
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Comment is free: Henry Porter: The views of people such as geneticist James Watson should be countered by logic, not law.
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A philosopher makes a case for setting limits on self-improvement, genetic and otherwise.
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The spread of pollen or seeds from genetically engineered plants is evolving from an abstract scientific worry into a significant practical problem.
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As a paleontologist and a creationist, Marcus R. Ross has produced academic work that contradicts his own beliefs.
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Television used to be dismissed by elitists as the idiot box, a sea of mediocrity that drowns thought and intelligent debate. Now people who ignore its pools and eddies of excellence do so at their own peril.
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Nature is pretty good at solving engineering problems, so designers are increasingly turning to biomimetics to improve their products and ideas. By Rowan Hooper.
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Science News, London: &quot;God genes&quot; are responsible for creating religious fanatics, says new scientific research - much to the chagrin of church representatives.
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The most detailed probe yet into the workings of the human genome has led scientists to conclude that a cornerstone concept about the chemical code for life is badly flawed.
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Not known whether God will attend The pope is set to host a seminar with his senior clergymen to discuss the Catholic Church's position on evolution. The move follows months of mixed signals from the Church with supporters of Darwin's theory at odds with those giving more credence to Intelligent Design, and other more creationist views.â¦
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A new book argues that nature is too complex and depends on too many processes that are poorly understood or little monitored to be modeled using computer programs.
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The Lab judging panel will be busy this weekend picking a winner in the speak-to-the-Prime-Designer contest. (You can still enter today.) As they toil tirelessly, let us ponder this designerâs ethics, and whether it&#8217;s better to live in simulated joy or be really miserable. The posthuman Prime Designer may not care much what our puny [...].
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If you're looking to bolster an intelligent-design argument, the Answers Research Journal features "creationist researchers, scientists and theologians" tackling non-evolutionary, young-earth theories. It's joining the internet age, jumping online with downloadable articles, branching out from its old-fashioned, print-only format.