ID theorist (and IDthefuture contributor) Steve Meyer had a friendly debate with Darwin defender Will Provine at the National Press Club in Washington DC today. Rob Crowther and Logan Gage give a report on the event over at the Evolution News blog.

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George Will has written an evocative Newsweek essay on the late Pope John Paul II, Terri Schiavo, and the secularist program of willing consciousness and free will into oblivion:

A bemused John Paul II, no stranger to materialism, dialectical and otherwise, might have responded: There you go again—that word “consciousness.” What is the grandeur in the spectacle, however interesting, of the blind, brute, violent necessity of physical laws at work? Is consciousness of an existence supposedly governed by such laws really much of a privilege?

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Our colleague Steve Meyer spoke at the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC yesterday on DNA and intelligent design. Heritage is so well organized that they already have the lecture video available (free) at their website. To view it, go here.

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In a previous post, I remarked that John Paul II “seemed to sign off on conventional evolutionary theory save for the divine infusion of souls at the origin of humanity.” This is not quite accurate. As a friend and colleague who knows the Catholic world much better than I do noted to me by email:

I don’t think any of us should be promoting (or at least going along with) the canard that John Paul II accepted “evolution” in some inappropriate sense. The 1996 Message on evolution was, indeed, a weak document,… MORE

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The National Center for Selling Evolution (NCSE) has a widely publicized, in their words, “tongue-in-cheek parody of a long-standing creationist tradition of amassing lists of ‘scientists who doubt evolution’ or ‘scientists who dissent from Darwinism’.” They call it “Project Steve.” (Go here for a description of the project and here for the list; go here […]
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Here are three letters from the New Scientist, the first and the last tacitly supporting ID. The last letter raises the interesting question to what degree throwing time at a problem can make up for deficiencies in intelligence. There is a research question here that needs cashing out. Gods of the gaps John Athanasiou, Tilbury, Essex, UK […]
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Prediction: Bush and Benedict XVI will do to evolution what Reagan and John Paul II did to communism
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I started blogging end of March 2005, beginning at www.idthefuture.com and now with my blog, Uncommon Descent (I intend to do a lot of cross-posting). Since I’d like Uncommon Descent to provide a complete record of my blogging activity, I include here my prior posts at IDthefuture that have thus far not been cited here: Open […]
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Denunciations of Intelligent Design by professional societies are now common coin: the American Association for the Advancement of Science (see here), the American Institute of Physics (see here and here), and the Society for Neuroscience (see here) are cases in point. But what happens when a professional society gears up to denounce ID and its […]
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“Please leave debating ID advocates to the professionals. Or if you are determined to do so anyway, ask for assistance before the debate.” … “With friends like Dr. Silver, I don’t need enemies.”
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