“The Vatican’s chief astronomer said on Friday that Intelligent Design Theory isn’t science and doesn’t belong in science classrooms.”
The ‘Vatican’s chief astronomer’? I wonder if CERN has a head priest who can be consulted for a theological perspective on particle physics.
I don’t suppose the Vatican astronomer is empowered to define the Catholic Church’s theological stance [...]
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Vatican Starman Slams ID!
20 November 2005 – 12:44 am
‘The Mating Mind’ by Geoffrey Miller
15 October 2005 – 3:47 pm
I’ve just read The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped Human Nature by Geoffrey Miller. The book’s argument is that many of the typical characteristics of human behaviour are best understood as products of sexual selection. Sexual selection is the process where you start with some ancestral bird species where the females have a bit [...]
‘The Ancestor’s Tale’ by Richard Dawkins
19 September 2005 – 3:15 pm
I’ve just read The Ancestor’s Tale by Richard Dawkins. The book traces back human descent to the earliest forms of life as a ‘pilgimage’, marking the points where other branches of our family tree ‘join’ us; the first rendezvous is with the chimps, then the other apes, then the rest of the primates and so [...]
teaching ID alongside natural selection
2 February 2005 – 5:12 pm
I do actually think there’s an argument for teaching about the idea of Intelligent Design alongside natural selection.
Or, to be more exact, in teaching natural selection in the context of ID.
That’s not because I think ID is a valid alternative to NS. It’s clearly not. On the contrary, school biology lessons ought to [...]