Notes"ID says we shouldn't bother ourselves with resolving scientific inconsistencies or untangling puzzles. We should recognize that what God really wants is for us just to stop learning."Unfurl
Notes"You might have heard that Tom Delay's been indicted. You might have heard that a living giant squid was finally found and photographed. Heres what you need to know about both stories"Unfurl
Notes"After examining ID's two main arguments, the answers to the original questions — what does ID offer? And what can ID explain that evolution can't? — is not much and nothing, leading scientists say."Unfurl
Notes"The only reason that "intelligent design" has become an issue in the national news is because reporters like Laurie Goodstein have refused to do their jobs and become actors in the "he said/she said" which passes for reporting in this country, which is eUnfurl
Notes"Scientific methods or processes are considered fundamental to the scientific investigation and acquisition of new knowledge based upon physical evidence."Unfurl
Notes"A major hurricane could swamp New Orleans under 20 feet of water, killing thousands. Human activities along the Mississippi River have dramatically increased the risk, and now only massive reengineering of southeastern Louisiana can save the city"Unfurl
Notes"If intelligent design were a scientific idea whose time had come, young scientists would be dashing around their labs, vying to win the Nobel Prizes that surely are in store for anybody who can overturn any significant proposition of contemporary evolutiUnfurl
Notes"In a series of unsent letters to her mother, a theoretical physicist meditates on her life, examining how her work and her personal life both mesh with and obstruct each other. Taking a highly original approach to science writing, Levin reveals herself aUnfurl
Notes"It would be a lot more helpful if you would advocate good science teaching and the importance of scientific understanding for a strong and thriving America."Unfurl
Notes"Either way, you need a hypothesis, and you need to test it -- but you know right then whether the end result, if it's proven, would be a theory or a law."Unfurl
Notes"As tempting as it is to picture a blood-spattered Canadarm flinging goat carcasses into the void, we know that the Shuttle is the fruit of what was supposed to be a rational decision making process."Unfurl
Notes"Our relationships with others are akin to social prosthetics for the mind, argues one leading Harvard psychologist. We’re hardwired to care as much as we are to compete, says another, and the clues lie in the biology of our brains."Unfurl
Notes"Consequently physics per se cannot causally determine the outcome of human creativity; rather it creates the 'possibility space' to allow human intelligence to function autonomously."Unfurl
Notes"They discriminate, exclude and belittle. They make a virtue of closed-mindedness and virulent ignorance. They are an ugly, violent lot." Amen.Unfurl
Notes"In the nearly ten years since the publication of Behe’s book, by contrast, I.D. has inspired no nontrivial experiments and has provided no surprising insights into biology."Unfurl
Notes"Researchers have developed a new technique for making very large diamonds of high quality that could soon boost optics technology and gaudily adorn fingers of the wealthy with sparkling rocks up to an inch wide."Unfurl
Notes"In order to live in this science-dominated world, you have to be able to discriminate between science and non-science ... They want to rewrite the rules of science."Unfurl
Notes"It’s always both cute and pathetic listening Fundamentalists try to use the language of empiricism ... sort of like seeing chimpanzees wear little human clothes ..."Unfurl
Notes"How long could a human survive if exposed to vacuum?" Just watched a Farscape marathon and, damn, those people end up exposed to hard vacuum a lot. Wondered how feasible it would be to make an airlock-to-airlock jump, suitless.Unfurl
Notes"The Vikings could have been using a telescope hundreds of years before Dutch spectacle makers supposedly invented the device in the late 16th century."Unfurl
Notes"The voice of science is being stifled in the Bush administration, with fewer scientists heard in policy discussions and money for research and advanced training being cut, according to panelists at a national science meeting."Unfurl
Notes"We must learn from Physics that models are imperfect and only an approximation of something that is much larger, and more complex that we can imagine." Excellent.Unfurl
Notes"A title like 'Rotating Universes and Time Traveling' is certainly enough for some people to consider me a mad scientist or an incurable geek."Unfurl
Notes"The White House has eliminated funding for a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope from its 2006 budget request and directed NASA to focus solely on de-orbiting the popular spacecraft at the end of its life, according to government and industry sUnfurl
Notes"...one explanation for the high incidence of design inferences in American adults may be a lack of quality science education." So forcing Creationism into Science Education only worsens the situation.Unfurl