This blog provides stories that Denyse O'Leary, a Toronto-based journalist, has found to be of interest, as she covers the growing intelligent design controversy. It supports her book By Design or by Chance? (Augsburg 2004). Does the universe - and do life forms - show evidence of intelligent design? If so, Carl Sagan was wrong and so is Richard Dawkins. Now what?
Serious push to find more exoplanets (planets that orbit stars other than our sun)
posted by Denyse @ 9:06 p.m.
British physicist David Tyler muses, "Is critical thinking subversive to science?
The instinctive reaction of most people to this question is "Of course not! Without critical thinking, science is dead!" So when one of the leading science journals carries a report on the Louisiana bill promoting the development of "critical thinking skills" describing it as an "attack [. . .] on the teaching of evolution and mainstream scientific thought on global warming and other topics" - it is time to reflect on the reasons why.It is indeed. And unfortunately, the answer isn't too hard to figure out.
Labels: critical thinking, science
posted by Denyse @ 5:24 p.m.
Here and then here Dennis Wagner of Access Research Network talks about the ID Arts site which tracks the interface between intelligent design theory and popular culture.
A sculpture of a mammoth and figures of other animals, the oldest ivory carvings ever found, dated to 35 000 years ago, shed another ray of light into early human culture. (Most existing artifacts are less than 5000 years old.):Intelligent design and popular culture: Illustrations, cartoons, and spoofs
Labels: arts, intelligent design
posted by Denyse @ 5:05 p.m.
Toronto-based journalist; grandmother; Roman Catholic Christian
