Science Directory
1) The War on Science and Scientists
2) Physics
and Astronomy
3) Science
and Religion
4) Global
Warming
The War on Science and Scientists
Excommunication Is Sought
for
Stem Cell Researchers
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Scientists who engage in stem
cell research
using human embryos should be subject to
excommunication from the Roman Catholic
Church, according to
a senior Vatican official.
Bush Would Veto Stem-cell
Bill, Rove Says
Legislation on research funding
passed
House, likely to pass Senate
DENVER - President Bush will probably issue his
first veto if the Senate approves a bill to expand
federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research,
White House aide Karl Rove told a newspaper’s
editorial
board.
Physics and Astronomy
As God's Dice Fall
Was Einstein Wrong and Bohr
Right?
Experiment goes against the EPR paradox
Science News, Jan 11, 1986
by Dietrick E. Thomsen
The act of measurement has a
very important
effect on the reality of things. The physical
attributes in question (and some have gone
so far as to say the objects themselves) are
at most potentially real. The
act of measurement
makes them actual. [Emphasis added.]
Infrared Glow of First Stars Found
When NASA's infrared
Spitzer Space Telescope
snapped pictures of a distant quasar in the
Draco constellation in October 2003, the photo
shoot was only intended to calibrate the instrument.
Those images, however, just may have provided a
glimpse of the very first
stars in the universe.
Evolution Vs. Intelligent Design
Evolution’s Backers
in
Kansas Start Counterattack
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
God and Charles Darwin are not on the primary
ballot in Kansas on Tuesday, but once again a
contentious schools election has religion and
science at odds in a state that has restaged a
three-quarter-century battle
over the teaching
of evolution.
Politicized Scholars
Put Evolution
on the Defensive
By JODI WILGOREN
SEATTLE - When President Bush plunged into
the debate over the teaching of evolution this
month, saying, "both sides ought to be properly
taught," he seemed to be reading from the playbook
of the Discovery Institute, the conservative think
tank here that is at the helm of this newly volatile
frontier in the nation's
culture wars.
Design for Confusion
By PAUL KRUGMAN
New York Times
Back in 1978 Mr. Kristol urged corporations
to make “philanthropic contributions to scholars
and institutions who are likely to advocate
preservation of a strong private sector.” That was
delicately worded, but the clear implication was
that corporations that didn't like the results of
academic research, however valid, should support
people willing to say something
more to their liking.
The Wedge Strategy
This
is a copy of the insiders
document that lays out the strategy that was
used to get Intelligent Design into America's
schools.
Regardless of its subject matter, The Wedge
Strategy is an eye-opening example of strategic
planning and tactics needed to win the culture
wars. And it reveals why the Democrats are
losing--they do not have think tanks that produce
this kind of practical, cohesive, reproducible insights:
How to Win the Scientific
War
Against Evolution
Intelligent Design and
that Vast Right-
Wing Conspiracy by Dr. Gross
Dr. Paul R. Gross, writing in
Science Insights
conclusively demonstrates why Intelligent
Design is not science and cannot be
taught as science in America's schools.
PDF file.
Dr.
Paul Gross Answers His Critics
Science Insight published 14
responses to
Dr. Gross' article plus Dr. Gross' reply to his
critics. This is fascinating and witty reading!
The Contributors were:
Those Against Dr. Gross:
David Berlinski
Phillip E. Johnson
Jonathan Wells
Michael J. Behe
John G. West
James Downard
Robert
C. Koons (An Introduction
To
Conservatism) (See
also in: Outing
Creeping Dominionism)
Roland F. Hirsch
Jason Rosenhouse
Those Supporting Dr. Gross
Plus Dr. Gross' Reply to
His Critics:
Jeffrey Shallit
Matt Young
Andrea Bottaro
Pete Dunkelberg
Paul R. Gross
Click Here to Read the 45 Page
PDF File.
Politicized Scholars
Put
Evolution on the Defensive
By JODI WILGOREN
When President Bush plunged into the
debate over the teaching of evolution, saying, "both
sides ought to be properly taught," he seemed to
be reading from the playbook of the Discovery Institute,
the conservative think tank that is at the helm of this
newly volatile frontier in the nation's culture wars.
Politics of Ignorance
Creation Science: Intelligent
Design
by Sam Harris
President Bush has now endorsed
the pseudo-
scientific notion of "intelligent design" (ID) and
declared it to be a legitimate alternative to the
theory of evolution. This is not surprising, as he
has always maintained that "the jury is still out"
on the question of evolution. But the jury is not out --
indeed it was well in before President Bush was
even born -- and anyone familiar with modern
biology knows that ID is nothing more than a
program of political and religious advocacy
masquerading as science.
Think Tanks and University
Anti-Evolutionism
A press release dated August
10, 1996, announced
that two private foundations have granted the Seattle-
based Discovery Institute nearly a million dollars to
establish the Center for the Renewal of Science and
Culture. The Center will sponsor conferences, disseminate
research and support postdoctoral students. Individuals
associated with the Center include some familiar old-earth
anti-evolutionists employed at secular colleges and
universities: Stephen Meyer (philosophy, Whitworth College),
John West (political science, Seattle Pacific University), Phillip
Johnson (law, University of California-Berkeley), and Michael
Behe (biology, Lehigh). The current crop of research fellows
include William Dembski (mathematics, formerly at Princeton),
Paul Nelson (philosopher, former editor of the Bible-Science
Newsletter and recent University of Chicago Ph.D.), and
Jonathan Wells (molecular and cell biology Ph.D.
from UC-Berkeley.)
Art History, the Bible
and Evolution
(and my first blog ever!)
A Christian Unwittingly Runs
Afoul
Teaching
When I first began teaching in
the States, after
returning from Micronesia, I found myself at a
very conservative religious high school in Southern
California. One of the many courses I taught at this
quite small school was Art History. As I proceeded
to introduce the course on day one to my students,
referring momentarily to the human evolution of the
opposable thumb and its connection to the genesis
of cave painting, I quickly found myself in
the principals
office.
Leading Cardinal Redefines
Church's
View on Evolution
By CORNELIA DEAN and LAURIE GOODSTEIN
An influential cardinal in the
Roman Catholic Church,
which has long been regarded as an ally of the theory
of evolution, is now suggesting that belief in evolution as
accepted by science today may be incompatible with
Catholic faith.
Finding Design in Nature
By CHRISTOPH SCHÖNBORN
Vienna
EVER since 1996, when Pope John Paul II said
that evolution (a term he did not define) was
"more than just a hypothesis," defenders of neo-
Darwinian dogma have often invoked the supposed
acceptance - or at least acquiescence - of the Roman
Catholic Church when they defend their theory as
somehow compatible
with Christian faith.
Frist Urges 2 Teachings
on Life Origin
By DAVID STOUT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 - Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee,
the Republican leader, aligned himself with President
Bush on Friday when he said that the theory of intelligent
design as well as evolution should be taught
in public schools.
Opposing Sides Square
Off On First Day
of Intelligent Design Case
September 27, 2005
A trial over the validity of
'intelligent design' as science
began yesterday in Pennsylvania, a case that many
believe will draw the line between what is and is not
religion in the public
school classroom.
Weird
Science on the Religious Right
By Stan Cox, AlterNet
"God said it. I believe it. That settles it." This
familiar
bumper sticker slogan appears to sum up the Religious
Right's decision-making process on matters of heated
public debate. But when policies involving human biology
and behavior are being hammered out, faith alone isn't
always sufficient to win over voters and decision-makers.
At such times, a bit of scientific evidence comes in handy,
and some of the Religious Right's operatives aren't too choosy
about where they
get it.
Global Warming
A Campaign Gore
Can't Lose
A Film Review of
"An Inconvenient Truth"
By Richard Cohen
Tuesday, April 18, 2006; A19
Al Gore has made a movie...You
will see
the Arctic and Antarctic ice caps melting. You
will see Greenland oozing into the sea. You will
see the atmosphere polluted with greenhouse
gases that block heat from escaping. You will
see photos from space of what the ice caps
looked like once and what they look like now
and, in animation, you will see how high the
oceans might
rise.
Science Sidelined
August 29, 2004
ONCE
AGAIN a Bush administration scientific
report blames emissions of carbon dioxide
and other greenhouse gases for global warming,
and once again the reaction of the Bush White
House is to say the evidence does
not warrant action.
Administration Shifts
on Global Warming
By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 27, 2004
A Bush administration report
suggests that
evidence of global warming has begun to
affect animal and plant populations in visible
ways, and that rising temperatures in North
America are due
in part to human activity.
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