Category Archives: Science

So, how old is everything, really…?

This is a nice line: “What we’re suggesting is that something that doesn’t really interact with anything is changing something that can’t be changed.” What are they talking about? Radioactive decay rates. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/august/sun-082310.html So, how old is everything, really…?
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When to Doubt a Scientific ‘Consensus’

A most excellent discussion on how to sift the science from the rhetoric (and avoid reality distortion fields) in the world of “climate change”. By Jay Richards. A December 18 Washington Post poll, released on the final day of the ill-fated Copenhagen climate summit, reported “four in ten Americans now saying that they place little [...]
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Glaciergate – should the public trust scientists? What about Darwinism?

Occasionally polls are taken and results published, and we find which groups in society are perceived to be the most trustworthy, according to society. The findings usually show something like: we trust doctors and firemen, but lawyers, used-car salesman, real estate agents and politicians, are, um, not very trustworthy. Well, something like that anyhow. Well, [...]
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MUST-LISTEN: Audio of debate between Stephen Meyer and Peter Atkins

UPDATE: This is an excellent discussion with lots of argy-bargy from Prof. Atkins. What I so liked about this discussion is that Atkins is an honest atheist and does not beat around the bush. These guys should should do a full moderated 3-hour debate — it would be so beneficial to those interested in this [...]
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The Tip of the Climategate Iceberg

The global-warming scandal is bigger than one email leak. This piece from the Wall Street Journal is a pretty good summary of what a lot of us are no doubt thinking about “global warming”. When scientific data is kept behind closed doors, unavailable, or classified, then why should we not be suspicious that there is [...]
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Debating the Origins of Life

Dr. Stephen Meyer will debate Skeptic magazine editor and Darwin defender Michael Shermer in Beverly Hills on Monday November 30. More info on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=184759894536&ref=share
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MONKEY BUSINESS: Evolution and Intelligent Design

There is usually more heat then light generated in the evolution wars. However, this video is actually pretty good imo. Thanks to the Hoover Institution for making this available! embedded by Embedded Video
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William Lane Craig talks about Hitchens Debate

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Time Traveling The Multiverse

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Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum is coming to town…

He will be at “Church in Vogel”, 127 Vogel Street, Palmerston North on Tuesday 31st March thru Thursday 2nd April. Each evening’s session will start at 7pm and topic will be ……… “In The Beginning – GOD”, a study on the first 11 chapters of Genesis.
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Frank Turek comments on the Hitchens-Turek Debate

On Tuesday night, I debated atheist Christopher Hitchens, author of God is not Great:  How Religion Poisons Everything, at Virginia Commonwealth University. The topic was, “Does God Exist?” Thanks be to God (and to you for your prayers) because I don’t think the debate could have gone much better. There were several atheists who approached [...]
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The Darwin Lectures

National Radio are running this series. Check out the MP3s here.
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Evidence for Correlations Between Nuclear Decay Rates and Earth-Sun Distance

http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3283 Unexplained periodic fluctuations in the decay rates of Si-32 and Ra-226 have been reported by groups at Brookhaven National Laboratory (Si-32), and at the Physikalisch-Technische-Bundesandstalt in Germany (Ra-226). We show from an analysis of the raw data in these experiments that the observed fluctuations are strongly correlated in time, not only with each other, [...]
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ARN – Real Science-4-Kids

What is Kogs-4-Kids? Kogs-4-Kids is a workbook set that has just been released that supports the Real Science-4-Kids curriculum. This workbook set helps students make cognitive connections between the scientific discipline they are studying (chemistry, biology, physics, and earth and space) and other disciplines such as critical thinking, language, technology, the arts, philosophy, and history. [...]
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A Massive compilation of materials

www.apollos.ws Apollos Tip – Select a Topic from Bronson Taylor on Vimeo.
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Bill Craig – Bill Cooke Debate

It happened in Auckland… http://mandmandmandm.blogspot.com/2008/06/battle-of-bills-review-of-craig-cooke.html My small idea of getting Dr William Lane Craig to have a debate at Auckland University ended up being an event that far exceeded my expectations. Despite the New Zealand Association of Rationalists and Humanists (NZARH) booking a larger lecture theatre at the last minute we still had to open [...]
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Darwin or Design Show Notes

These are some useful interviews by an Aussie! Webpage here: http://thesciphishow.com/darwinordesign The author of Darwin or Design is Jason Rennie. Jason is also the host of The Sci Phi Show a podcast that looks at questions of science fiction and philosophy. He lives in Sydney Australia and works as a software engineer when he isn’t [...]
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Websites and Blogs

Beretta (NZ) Bible Technology (NZ) Culture Watch (OZ) John Pickering (NZ) Matt Flannagan (NZ) Stand to Reason (US) Scott Mackay (NZ) Uncommon Descent (US) Dr. JP Moreland Books This is an excellent book :: the title says it all. JP calls this book the Magnum Opus of his writings. Lee Strobel Books Intelligent Design Arts [...]
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William Lane Craig coming to New Zealand

Christian News has news that W.L.C. is coming to NZ in June. Check it out here. This is huge news for those interested in apologetics as Craig is one of the best. Apparently Richard Dawkins was asked if he would debate W.L.C. and replied: "It would look good on his C.V., but not on mine." [...]
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Oxford Scholar John Lennox on Atheism and Richard Dawkins

Well – has science buried God? Of course not. John Lennox answers his own question decisively. No one who understands what science really is and is not could suppose that such interment was ever on the cards. No one who understands what religion really is, beneath its sometimes ugly face, could suppose that it would [...]
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