The space agency says it needs more time to cross its T’s and dot its I’s before launching the first shuttle since the Columbia accident two years ago. By Amit Asaravala.
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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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A little to the south of The Warner Bros. Studio I posted earlier in the week is Universal City, “Steg” breaks down what you can see:

In this shot you have the theme park and the CityWalk in the foreground. The circular border of trees separates it from the actual film studios and backlot. The backlot extends to the top right where it eventually ends at a tip and then you get Burbank Studios aka Warner Bros.

In the thumbnail shot you can see fictional street “Wisteria Lane” from TV show “Desperate Housewives” (Thanks Josh!).

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Security is one of the biggest problems corporations face when installing wireless networks. One start-up hopes to capture the market by walling off WLANs.
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Rapsheets will automatically notify the targets of background checks if damaging information is being distributed about them. By Kim Zetter.
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The trade of virtual goods in massively multiplayer online games is becoming big, big business. Sony’s about to grab a piece of the action with the first official auction site for virtual gewgaws. By Daniel Terdiman.
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Adobe Systems’ acquisition of Macromedia is a good thing, argues the editor of Webmonkey, even as some geeks chatter about stagnation and monopoly. Commentary by Michael Calore.
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