How the Scientific Consensus can hinder Science
This article seeks to discuss "Scientific consensus" as it is understood today and how, in the past, scientific consensus has had to undergo seismic shifts. Read more
This article seeks to discuss "Scientific consensus" as it is understood today and how, in the past, scientific consensus has had to undergo seismic shifts. Read more
Dismissing Intelligent Design as 'Creationism' is the easy way of avoiding having to deal with the empirical evidence for design. Read more
Cosmologists tell us that we now know a fair amount of detail about the conditions of the universe from the first split second, 13.7 billion years ago. Read more
The words ‘fine tuning of the universe’ have been around for quite a while and are greeted with bafflement, scepticism and wonder; in about equal proportions. What on earth (or in the universe) does it mean? Theoretical physicist Paul Davies calls it the ‘Goldilocks Enigma’.1 Is it real... Read more
RESEARCHERS have found that a single human brain has more molecular-scale switches than all the computers, routers and Internet connections on the entire planet! Read more
See the menu item ACADEMIC FREEDOM. To quote from the lead in to the page: ".... However, there is another key issue raised by ID. It is the freedom of academics and science educators to explore and discuss the issues associated with ID. The exploration of ID within science should not be dismissed as something it is not – a disguised religious position."
The Centre for Intelligent Design on September 27th 2011 issued a press release and additional material relating to the call by Prof Richard Dawkins, Sir David Attenborough and others for a legal ban on Creationism and Intelligent Design in Britain's schools. Click here for the Press Release page.
Table of contents
'ID Conference September 9/10 - BOOK NOW!' Online booking closes on Monday September 5th at 1.00pm. If you wish to book after that time then email your request to conf2011@c4id.org.uk for up-to-date advice on what spaces are available, particularly for Saturday. This may be just the right opportunity to increase your understanding of the fast moving centre-stage debate about Darwinism and Intelligent Design and at the same time enjoy a fabulous conference centre, all en-suite, in the Malvern Hills, Worcestershire. Who's Speaking?
You'll be engaging with world-class speakers for up to five sessions over the Friday evening and Saturday as they bring the scientific evidence that is making ID an unstoppable movement, world-wide.
Who is it for?
This is for any who have a serious interest in understanding science and its wider implications today. The speakers are operating at the highest levels in their own academic work but they have a gift for making their subjects relevant, interesting, exciting and intelligible for non-specialists.
When?
September 9th and 10th - Come from Friday evening for dinner (7pm) through to Saturday tea-time or come for one of the days - a mix and match menu of options so none should be excluded.
Cost?
Full package Friday/Saturday all meals and accommodation is £90 twin, £100 single, all rooms en-suite. For Friday evening dinner and lecture/Q&A it's £20 and for Saturday only it's £60.
Concessions - for students a discount of up to 80% is available on application to conf2011@c4id.org.uk
Details of the conference centre can be found at: http://www.elim.org.uk/Groups/121077/Elim_Conference_Centre.aspx |
Prof Mike Behe, Professor of Chemistry at Lehigh University, USA, toured the UK in November 2010. He is author of Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution. For one week he gave lectures and was a speaker at a day conference in Oxford. Click here for a report on the tour.
Full details of the tour and the day conference can be found at the associated website www.darwinordesign.org.uk.