ID a radical theory

The hypothesis was developed by Helen Hansma, a research scientist with the University of California, Santa Barbara and a program director at the National Science Foundation. Hansma will present her findings at a press briefing on Tues., Dec. 4, at the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in Washington, D.C.
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Michael Stewart:
"A Pensacola evangelist was arrested Thursday and indicted in federal court on 58 charges that include income tax evasion, making threats against investigators and filing false complaints against Internal Revenue Service agents.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Miles Davis handed down the indictment against Kent Hovind, who operated a creationist theme park Dinosaur Adventure Land, off Old Palafox Road.

Hovind’s wife, Jo Hovind, was also indicted on 44 of the counts and appeared in court alongside her husband.

Arraignment for the Hovinds is scheduled for2 p.m. Monday. The couple was released pending their trial but are not allowed to travel outside the Northern District of Florida."

Hahahahaha.

A Short video clip of Richard Dawkins talking about "evolutionary strategies in engineering".

Two laboratories at Penn State set out to show how an obscure undersea microbe metabolizes carbon monoxide into methane and vinegar. What they found was not merely a previously unknown biochemical process -- their discovery also became the inspiration for a fundamental new theory of the origin of life on Earth, reconciling a long-contentious pair of prevailing theories. This new, "thermodynamic" theory of evolution improves upon both previous theories by proposing a central role for energy conservation during early evolution, based on a simple three-step biochemical mechanism.

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The interview just posted helped distill the idea of design to what I think it really is:
Humans psychologically looking at a process and saying "Hey, I/We could do that." It's a historic blip of time where we are knowledgeable about the process, but can't quite make the whole thing ourselves.

No one cites diamonds as proof of a Designer anymore, because we can make them, so it's beneath the Designer. When organisms are designed by humans (assuming we don't get squashed by Dark Agists), I predict many fewer will think that we were designed anymore.

It's like watching root_fu only smarter. Still totally wrong but trying so hard to make a broken argument work.

Robert Wright has to be the worst interviewer I have ever seen. He makes the same point over and over. Is shot down again and again. But keeps on at it.
*head desk*

Bill Maher on intelligent design.

im not a member of your community but thought you might be interested in the royal society's live Webcast on tuesday : Why creationism is wrong and evolution is right.
which can be found here :)