http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/18663/

Link:   http://arn.org/top10/2009newsstories.pdf

You can see an archive back to 2006 here:  http://arn.org/top10/

I do hope that Dawkins will take Hewitt up on another round in the near future.

Link HERE

Creationists probably take the biggest beating of all among the participants in the discussion of evolution.  They are called names and ridiculed mercilessly by scientists and professors who paint them as ignorant, dogmatic “flat-earthers.”  But is this really fair?  Can a creationist mind bring anything at all to the discussion of evolution?

Answers In Genesis is a Creationist group led by Ken Ham.  Mainstream evolution has taught for decades that birds evolved from Dinosaurs.  Creationists such as A.P. Galling of AiG have been claiming that birds did not in fact, evolve from Dinosaurs.  Who is right?  Mainstream scientists, or A.P. Galling?  Both scientists and A.P Galling have been looking at and observing exactly the same data, but they have come to completely different conclusions.

Today, scientists are beginning to question the long standing idea that birds came from dinosaurs because of the evidence. For a fresh perspective on this iconic view of evolution, see what this creationist group at Answers In Genesis has to say about birds and evolution:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2009/06/12/birds-did-not-evolve

http://www.thinktanktv.com/media/index.php?a=watch#video_place_holder

This is a great audio resource, and it should put to rest many of the half-truths and disinformation being spread by dogmatic methodological materialists about groups such as the Discovery Institute and authors such as Michael Behe.

But it appears there is a bright spot to come of all of this because Eugenie has now invited critics to come to universities and speak about these supposed weaknesses.  I am certain that the gates will now open wide and no more professors will be expelled due to this new university science curriculum policy of Perestroika.

Tune in at Evolution News & Views for more reporting on Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, Ralph Seelke and Charles Garner as they get their chance to speak in Texas.

Carnivorous plants constitute a fascinating group of mostly independently arisen organisms. Their true nature was unrecognized for centuries by most botanists and other researchers, and they still present many open scientific questions conc erning habitats, functional morphology, systematics and especially the origin of species.

Download the pdf paper HERE

Will she be run out on a rail?  Will she quietly disappear for her incredible hubris?  Will she cave and walk away?  I hope none of these.  I am glad to see her asking these questions and bringing just a little light to a controversial subject that the National Academy of Sciences will tell you on page 56 of Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science, that “The scientific consensus around evolution is overwhelming.”  Indeed, casual perusal of the standard circled wagon approach of the NAS documents would lead anyone to believe that only the most unreasonable of people would offer an alternative view to the high throne of Darwin.

This ties in nicely with my last posts which talk a little bit about how important it is to define terms when having a debate or exchange between a naturalist thinker and a theistic one regarding evolution.  Seelke talks in clear terms about both the micro and the macro of things, and uses some great examples to illustrate.

This can be listened to online or as a podcast.  I encourage you to check it out and listen in on your next commute!