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Stephen C. Meyer vs. Chris Mooney on the Michael Medved radio show

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Dr. Stephen C. Meyer (Ph.D from Cambridge) takes on Chris Mooney (B.A. in English) on the scientific method. This is commercial-free.

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Topics:

  • science and public policy, e.g. – global warming as science
  • what is the definition of science?
  • can scientific ideas be questioned by those who disagree with the consensus?
  • should we allow scientists to debate scientific questions?
  • is name-calling an adequate response to intelligent design?
  • is it OK to be skeptical of scientific consensus?
  • can a person with a BA in English be a “science journalist”?
  • can a person with multiple degrees in science be a “scientific illiterate”?
  • is evolution testable? is it falsifiable? can it be criticized at all?
  • what about the Altenberg 16? are the “science-deniers” because they doubt Darwinism?
  • are scientific theories open to being revised based on new evidence?
  • what about the hundreds of credentialed scientists who dissent from evolution?
  • what about solar cycles – isn’t that the cause of global warming?
  • isn’t Al Gore making billions from the myth of global warming?
  • what about documentaries like “An Inconvenient Truth”? Is that science?
  • Should science journalists report both sides of scientific disputes?
  • Should public schools teach the controversy surrounding scientific issues?

My impression of Mooney is that he never took a single high school course in math or science. English? Is that even something that you can get a degree in? Seriously? English? Shouldn’t “science correspondents” have some qualifications

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Free e-book answers critics of Signature in the Cell book

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From Brian Auten of Apologetics 315.

Signature of Controversy is a free eBook with contributions by David Berlinski, David Klinghoffer, Casey Luskin, Paul Nelson, Jay Richards, Richard Sternberg and Stephen Meyer. It contains responses critics of Stephen Meyer’s book Signature in the Cell.

Download the PDF ebook here. (expires soon)

Grab it now in case so you can have it together to read with Signature in the Cell.

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How good is Stephen C. Meyer’s book “Signature in the Cell”?

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Here’s a new book review (in Scribd format) is here. (H/T Evolution News)

Excerpt:

Stephen C. Meyer changes the game in the intelligent design fight with Signature in the Cell, a big book that methodically, but agreeably, constructs an argument that intelligence in some unspecified form, is responsible for the bio-molecular machinery in the cell and, therefore, for first life. Meyer’s argument is, at its heart, logical and statistical but also strives for a reality check by engaging the reader’s day-to-day experience of cause and effect.

[…]His long argument is encyclopedic yet lively and persuades that science is at an impasse in explaining the origin of life as the product of undirected processes. The work overall, technical at times, is directed to the general reader. The scientifically trained reader must decide whether a popular work is “trying to pull a fast one,” preferably guided by criteria that are consistently and dispassionately applied across historical sciences. The author’s passion for his argument is palpable but scrupulously controlled; he is ever mindful that it is the target of scornful attacks by opponents who are, to put it gently, not disinterested. Meyer delivers his argument in the manner of a dish best served cold, yet forcibly enough to shake the base of the materialistic paradigm.

The review appeared in The Journal of the International Society of Philosophical Enquiry.

The review is written by a software engineer, so he understands code, algorithms and specified complexity. His name is Harry Kanigel, and he is the former executive director of Information Technology at UBS Investment Bank. (!)

This book is an excellent science book – the best book on intelligent design available today.

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