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[Uncommon Descent] James Shapiro at Fermilab: Richards Dawkins “lives in a world of ...: But to come back to biological reality requires returning to the whole organism ”” see the list of Boolean propositions below, under “Contemporary picture” ”” which one can guess for Dawkins is uncomfortably close to ID or vitalism. ...

[Unreasonable Faith] Why Richard Dawkins Doesn't Debate Creationists | Unreasonable Faith: The same could be done in a scientific debate with Dawkins, limit the debate to one area. The intrigue of a debate between these two, is that they have such a broad range of knowledge across a wide spectrum, but if the debate were to occur Dawkins should tread carefully around some of the metaphysical underpinnings of his naturalism, which in reality is Craigs strong suit.

[VX Heavens] Mark Ludwig 'Computer Viruses, Artificial Life and Evolution' (VX ...: There is every reason to believe that the most intractable form of catastrophe theory (the idea of how a butterfly flapping its wings in Japan could cause a tornado in Kansas) must be involved in determining the behavior of living organisms.2 Thinking in terms of basic physics, why do one sequence of vibrations in the eardrum of a man result in a smile and a handshake, while another sequence (the same words being spoken, just a different tone of voice) results in a fist fight? If such results are purely due to the known laws of physics, a staggering degree of accuracy will be needed in any calculation that could produce accurate end results.

[RichardDawkins.net : The Latest Updates] 'Evolution IS a Blind Watchmaker' by Chuck Kopec, cdk007 ...: Regarding your other point, "I don't think a video like this is going to change any minds unless it presents a far more realistic simulation, where functionality just appears by itself, with selection coming from within the model, and not from the programmer/user." In the real world, selection does not originate within an organism, it is imosed by the environmental conditions the organism is exposed to. Analogously, in this computer program the environment is more likely to eliminate watches that don't tell time as well.

[Uncommon Descent] Why Richard Dawkins won't debate William Lane Craig | Uncommon Descent: Micro evolution is well supported and no one objects to it but macro evolution or the origin of complex novel capabilities has never been supported by any coherent science. Don’t tell us micro evolution over time leads to macro evolution because that is just an assertion and has not empirical evidence supporting it when there should be millions of examples.

[RichardDawkins.net : The Latest Updates] 'Did Charles Darwin get it wrong?' by Peter Forbes - The ...: Shermer points out, as an example, that population genetics accurately demonstrate when natural selection will and will not effect change on a population. Shermer hypothesizes that if hominid fossils were found in the same geological strata as trilobites, it would be evidence against natural selection

[The Panda's Thumb] Richard Dawkins and "The Purpose of Purpose" - The Panda's Thumb: Then Dawkins compared the modern, domesticated version of the banana to the fruit of the wild banana, showing that many of the properties that Comfort was ascribing to God’s design were actually choices made in artificial selection by humans. Some of the attitudes remain even in those who have abandoned a religious viewpoint, especially when it comes to seeing humans as part of the panoply of life and not separate from it, as when people ascribe the grave sin of murder to aborting a human fetus, while cheerfully eating a cow.

[Uncommon Descent] Dawkins' Latest Book Sees Criticism of Evolution in Same Vein as ...: The misunderstanding is with him applying a tautology to active information, I don’t care what he has to say about a misleading car analogy that has no import to Dembski and Marks’ paper, and is a total non sequitur in reference to his question to Barry.

[The ID Report] The ID Report - The Rise Of The New Spontaneous Generationists: His scientifically-sound experiments with muslin-covered meat demonstrated that under such conditions flies were no longer able to land and maggots did not mysteriously appear (Ref 1). The inspiration behind Redi's experiments was simple- he strongly believed that all life had been brought forth by God during the earth's creation (Ref 3, pp.3-4).

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[Michael Prescott's Blog] Michael Prescott's Blog: Book review: There Is Life after Death: But what is much more remarkable than that economic achievement is that the contents - or rather lack of contents - of this book show Dawkins himself to have become what he and his fellow secularists typically believe to be an impossibility: namely, a secularist bigot. (Helpfully, my copy of The Oxford Dictionary defines a bigot as ”˜an obstinate or intolerant"

[Gaia Community: buddhacious' Blog] Dennett, Dawkins, Metaphor, and Much More by Matthew Segall ”” Gaia ...: While I realize he obviously realizes all the other factors involved in getting the DNA to do its work, I think he over-emphasizes the selfish replicator idea to such an extent that it gives people a distorted idea of evolution, that it is all about random mutation of genes and selection by a pregiven environment.

[The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog] The Truth Delusion of Richard Dawkins | The Spectator: Anthony Flew, the celebrated philosopher and former high priest of atheism, spectacularly changed his mind and concluded -- as set out in his book There Is A God --  that life had indeed been created by a governing and purposeful intelligence, a change of mind that occurred because he followed where the scientific evidence led him. The conversion of Flew, whose book contains a cutting critique of Dawkins’s thinking, has been dismissed with unbridled scorn by Dawkins –

[ScienceBlogs : News] Richard Dawkins: banned in Oklahoma? : Pharyngula: It's a little game, isn't it - why, you've probably been here before, under a different name, and you're back for more.Well, perhaps I could politely suggest that you take your gay jesus - nothing wrong with that of course (but really - I mean no wife, 33, domineering mother, absent father - don't say you didn't suspect), well please take your cum-gobbling saviour, his psychotic baby-raping father, his "virgin" mother, and the entire bible, every single last page, and place them carefully but conscientiously, up your arse - though in reality of course, it will only be the bible which will actually physically penetrate the sphincter.Fuck you, fuck what passes for "ideas" in your head, fuck you religion of hate and oppression, fuck your symbols, fuck your prayers, fuck everything you believe in. Please go off, and instead of posting here have a good long wank, or pray (the two being of identical utility).In other words, kindly remove yourself from the realm of rationality we call "here" and take your silly imaginary friends with you.

[Greta Christina's Blog] Greta Christina's Blog: The Argument From Design -- Now With 40 ...: that's the one to read.) But even if mutations are harmful 99.9% of the time (I don't know if that number is accurate, but I'll go with it for now), that doesn't contradict evolutionary theory -- if a beneficial mutation happens 0.1% of the time, that's one out of a thousand animals/ plants/ whatever, which is enough over time to confer selective advantage.

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