• Obama Team Continues Effort to Isolate Fox News – Of course Obama isn’t saying anything that isn’t known by pretty much everyone anyway. However, I’m not sure if this is the way to handle it. First pass impression is that this will backfire. However, what are the alternatives? Simply ignore it? Maybe. I don’t know. I’ll give it some thought and get back to you.
• Intelligent Alien Intervention Institute – A very good spoof on ID and their quest to work their way into the US schools.
• Futurity – I heard about this site from an NPR story. I’m not sure exactly what to make of it yet. So far it seems great. However, since the stories are direct from the sources, rather than being vetted by a professional Science journalist (a dying breed), they may not be as accurate as one would like. I’m keeping an eye on this one, and I may be making posts about stories found here soon.
• New view reveals how DNA fits into cell – I want to make a post about fractals soon, and I think this might be a good jumping off point.

That’s all I really have time for at the moment. I’ll try and get back to this as soon as I am able.

As I’ve said before…the most critical thing for the ID movement to be doing right now is developing its own intricacies and methodologies, designing and supporting a much more intense program for conducting new empirical research — funding this through our own donations and volunteers if necessary.

Ten years from now, if we’re still talking about whether or not evolutionism is true, the movement will have been an utter failure. Instead, the topic by then needs to be why scientists working under the paradigm of Intelligent Design theory are producing new and valuable discoveries, while scientists working under the paradigm of Evolution theory are stagnating under the weight of their own assumptions.

This is absolutely brilliant, and I think that if this were to happen it would be a wonderful thing. It would be one of the greatest paradigm shifts since Einsteins Theory of Relativity, and I couldn’t imagine not wanting to be a part of it in some way.

Having said that, I (and many others I’m sure) believe that such a thing will never come to pass. From what I know of the theory there doesn’t seem to be any way to turn it into anything that’s actually useful in the way described above. The ultimate conclusion of the theory seems to be that Some Guy Did It. By what means? Don’t know, can’t know. For what purpose? Don’t know, can’t know. What does it tell us about what we’re likely to see in biology as a result? Only that we’re likely to see whatever that guy happened to have done. So what exactly has he done? We’ll have to determine that by seeing whatever we happen to see.

I truly and honestly hope that I’m wrong, because I want to be one of the people that was alive and participating when the scientific revolution came. I just don’t hold out much hope that it will actually come to pass.