http://designparadigm.blogsome.com Weblog of the Intelligent Design Evolution Awareness Club at Cornell Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:18:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It’s a tendancy among us as Americans to think that we’re the center of the world. Evolutionists take this tendency to the extreme when they’ve claimed frantically and repeatedly that the intelligent design evolution furor is just an outcrop of the American Christian Right Wing Republican Agenda. However that idea ... http://designparadigm.blogsome.com/2007/03/11/id-an-international-phenomenon/ Our friend Allen MacNeill over at EvolutionList has written a bunch about Steve Fuller in his last two posts, but he seems to have badly misunderstood what Fuller was saying. Allen seems to not realize (as a Macht pointed out to him in the comments) that Science Wars is a name ... http://designparadigm.blogsome.com/2007/02/19/steve-fuller-allen-macneill-and-the-science-wars/ We’ve heard over and over again from the Darwinist side of this debate that ID offers no novel predictions. Intelligent design actually offers many intriguing and novel predictions (you can head over to ResearchID.org to see some of them), but what about Darwinism? I would love it if some of ... http://designparadigm.blogsome.com/2007/02/17/does-darwinism-predict-anything/ It doesn’t directly relate to either ID or evolution, but… There’s a short debate available between Richard Dawkins (everyone’s favorite evolutionist) and David Quinn, on Irish radio. The topic is Dawkin’s new book The God Delusion, and it manages to get quite intense in the twenty minutes allocated to it, as ... http://designparadigm.blogsome.com/2006/10/22/the-god-delusion/ PBS’s Think Tank hosted an  discussion between Steve Meyer (of the DI) and Michael Ruse (philosophy of science, Florida State) this past week.  The transcript is here.  It was one of those discussions where you never  get to the interesting bits because you aren’t given a chance to get past ... http://designparadigm.blogsome.com/2006/10/15/meyer-vs-ruse/ Fall break begins tomorrow (if you think, as Cornell does, it is rational to begin a break on  Saturday) but at any rate we shall all be away, or pretending to be away, as soon as our exams and classes are done today. We’re not having a meeting next Wednesday ... http://designparadigm.blogsome.com/2006/10/06/fall-break-reading/ Memo to friends, enemies, and anyone who wants to find out about us: You can just ask, really. We haven’t any secrets, and you don’t need to play spy games. Of all the reporters we’ve spoken to during the past year and a half the IDEA Club has been in existence, ... http://designparadigm.blogsome.com/2006/10/05/the-evolution-design-cold-wars/ Midterm papers and problem sets take precedence, so I’m officially giving up on writing those two long posts– on our summer and on our upcoming semester. Suffice it to say we had a wonderful time in the Evolution & Design class. We managed to cover a great deal of ground ... http://designparadigm.blogsome.com/2006/09/26/well/ We’re back at Cornell for a new semester, and should be posting soon. On the agenda: a look-back at this summer’s intelligent design course, a look-ahead at the new semester, and several looks around at what is happening in evolutionary biology and intelligent design. In case you hadn’t realized, though; ... http://designparadigm.blogsome.com/2006/08/20/from-the-silence/ How would we build a really complex system — such as a general artificial intelligence (AI) that exceeded human intelligence? That is the question Steve Jurvetson addresses in yesterday’s Technology Review. He considers it as a choice between two options: evolutionary search algorithms or design, and his summary of the problems ... http://designparadigm.blogsome.com/2006/07/12/evolution-vs-design/