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John M. Lynch is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University. He's also affiliated with ASU's Center for Biology & Society. When he's not an historian of anti-evolutionism, he's an evolutionary morphologist. Much to his surprise, in 2007 he was named the Arizona Professor of the Year. No doubt his students were surprised as well.
Category: Anti-evolution
Back in December 2006 I referred to Francis Beckwith as an ID supporter. This resulted in he informing me that he "has never been much of fan [of] design arguments, ever [and that his] interest in the debate focuses on...
Posted by John Lynch at 10:27 PM • •
Category: Anti-evolution
Mark Chu-Carroll has done it so that you don't have to ... read the Dembski & Marks paper that I mentioned a few days back. Shorter MC-C: "Same old rubbish." Read his full verdict here.Update (5/11): Dembski "responds" (and apparently...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:46 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Anti-evolution
In 2000, Baylor's Michael Polanyi Center (Dembski's pet project) hosted a conference title "The Nature of Nature: An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Role of Naturalism in Science". It now looks like the proceedings of the conference are finally appearing: Bruce...
Posted by John Lynch at 1:53 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: In Their Own Words
Earlier this month we celebrated Paul Nelson Day. Today is yet another ID-related (and as it happens, also Paul Nelson related) anniversary. Four years ago, I posted a piece (reprinted a year and a half later here) on Nelson's forthcoming...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:14 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Intelligent Design
SkeptiCamp Phoenix 2009 went off wonderfully yesterday. Big thanks to Jim Lippard for doing such a wonderful organizational job. The picture above is me beginning my 20 minute gallop through the issue of academic freedom and the intelligent design...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:27 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Anti-evolution
Over at PT, Hector Avalos is reporting that the deadline has passed for the DI-inspired "Evolution Academic Freedom Act” (HF 183) to move out of committee in Iowa. This one is now officially dead. Thus the scorecard so far looks...
Posted by John Lynch at 9:43 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Anti-evolution
Next week there is a big conference here at ASU - hosted in conjunction with University of Cambridge - examining the concept of "Unchallengeable Orthodoxy in Academia and Science." The general purpose of the conference is: To critically examine the...
Posted by John Lynch at 4:29 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Apparently Alvin Plantinga and Daniel Dennett debated a week ago at a meeting of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association. An anonymous individual live-blogged it somewhat hyperbolically (“The tension between the titans fills the room”) but the...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:15 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anti-evolution
Creationists have long used credentials to make their case for them. Demsbki has posted a link to a SSRN (i.e. grey literature) paper by Edward Sisson (who is an architect and lawyer) in which he “relates lessons learned not only...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:20 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Intelligent Design
On the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin, William Dembski, research professor of philosophy at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, challenged Darwin's famed theory of evolution during a seminary chapel service. A fixation with Darwin and a sermon in a chapel....
Posted by John Lynch at 1:03 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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