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Darwinism Under The Microscope: How Recent Scientific Evidence Points To Divine Design

Darwinism Under The Microscope: How Recent Scientific Evidence Points To Divine Design is an intelligent design book written by James P. Gills and published by Charisma House in 2002. Like other works with similarly grandiose religiously based claims, its title is factually incorrect.
==Overview==
It is a religious book which pretends to be scientific and consists of mostly recycled Christian creationist arguments and quotes from intelligent-design advocates Charles Thaxton and Phillip Johnson. It also contains essays by Michael Behe and William Dembski.Darwinism Under The Microscope The main claim of the book is that complexity has been found in the cell which disproves Darwinian evolution.Christian Website
==References==
Category:Intelligent design creationism
Category:Religious books
Darwinius masillae

Darwinius masillae is a transitional form in the order of primates. It is notable for having one of the best preserved fossils from that time, discovered in the 1980s but held in a private collection and away from study until much later."Scientists hail stunning fossil" BBC News, 19 May 2009 It was named after Charles Darwin as a commemoration of the 200th anniversary of his birth and after the Messel Pit in Germany where the fossil was originally found.
The fossil dates to 47 million years ago, 8 million years after the oldest known primate fossils. Although it undoubtedly possesses features that are transitional between earlier mammals and later primates and simians — opposable thumbs and nails rather than claws, for instance — it is still under discussion and study as to whether D. masillae is a direct ancestor of humans. On October 22, 2009, a group of anthropologists reported in an article in Nature magazine that D. masillae was most definitely not a direct human ancestor, being in fact more closely related to lemurs. The scientific community had already been highly skeptical of the claims that it was a direct human ancestor, and the anthropologists' findings represented the position of most scientists, according to paleo-anthropologist David Begun.'Missing link' primate isn't a link after all
==See also==
*List of transitional forms
==References==
Category:Biology
Category:Evolution
Category:Transitional fossils
Daryl Bem

Daryl J. Bem , a respected social psychologist, is more well known among skeptics for his investigations of the paranormal. His most famous study is titled "Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect",Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect. Cornell University, 2011. and the most famous subset of these is the "porn" experiment. When provided two hidden images, participants were able to correctly select the "arousing" image 53.1% of the time (more than the 50% predicted by chance). Afterwards, participants were shown which image was porn and which was not. Bem argues that this (and various other tests) constitutes evidence for "retroactive facilitation of recall" — or, people recalling events before they have happened.
However, replication has proven Bem's hypothesis wrong:Psychology Today, October 2012.
Regardless of whether Bem's original study was designed well (and there are some indeed problemsThe psychology of parapsychology, or why good researchers publishing good articles in good journals can still get it totally wrong. www.talyarkoni.org, 10 January 2011.), it has not stood the test of time.
==External links==
*James Alcock. Back from the Future: Parapsychology and the Bem Affair. Skeptical Inquirer, Jan. 6 2011.
*Daryl Bem's Home Page (archived from the original)
==References==
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Data Quality Act

The Data Quality Act (DQA) is a law that is not really an act, nor does it ensure "data quality." It's actually a two-sentence rider that was slipped into a 2001 appropriations bill by Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO) and an industry lobbyist to, ostensibly, "provide policy and procedural guidance to Federal agencies for ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information (including statistical information) disseminated by Federal agencies." Because of its vague wording, special interests have latched onto it to challenge the legitimacy of scientific studies on subjects relating to environmental and health risks, including global warming, deforestation, and pesticides. 
Notably, it has also been used in an attempt to lift the ban on medical marijuana.
==External links==
*Data Quality Act, OMB Watch
*Catherine Campbell Meshkin. Unchecked Data: A Tool for Political Corruption? Engage Volume 11, Issue 3, December 2010 
*Thanks to a little-known piece of legislation, scientists at the EPA and other agencies find their work questioned not only by industry, but by their own government, Chris Mooney
*Activist Enlists Unlikely Ally in Bid to Legalize Pot, LA Times
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Dave Emory

Dave Emory is a radio personality and conspiracy theorist whose show is carried by several noncommercial FM radio stations including KFJC, KPFK and KKUP in California and WFMU in New Jersey. He describes himself as an anti-fascist activist, but proving once again that good intentions can go so, so wrong, his research is mired in a conspiratorial analysis in which hidden Nazi and Fascist conspiracies are everywhere, with their tentacles in governments and secret societies around the world.
As an example of the mire, Emory has accused Glenn Greenwald — who is ethnically JewishThe Man Who Knows Too Much — (as well as Julian Assange and Edward Snowden) of being a Nazi sympathizer.For the Record #812Citizen Greenwald In Greenwald's case the accusation is based on his pro bono defense of the free speech rights of Neo-Nazi Matthew Hale.Snowden and Greenwald: The Men Who Leaked the Secrets By this 'logic', the ACLU is a hotbed of Nazi sympathizers.
His show is a smorgasbord for the information junkie wanting to keep up with what is going on in the world, relying on annotated sources for his arguments.
According to conspiracy theorist Alex Constantine, Emory has accused other conspiracy theorists ('Nip Tuck', John Judge, and the entire board of the Mae Brussell Research Center) of being government agents.Background on Dave Emory, John Judge, and Mae Brussell Constantine in turn has accused Emory and others of being CIA stooges.Dave Emory is the CIA's Useful Idiot Where the truth lies is anyone's guess since there's little independent information about the circular firing squad among these conspiracy theorists.
==See also==
* Spitfirelist - Emory's website
* Audio archives of his shows
* Michael Parenti—Functions of Fascism (Real History) 1 of 4 
* Dave Emory at the Encyclopedia of American Loons
==References==
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David Bellamy

David James Bellamy was a British author, broadcaster, environmental campaigner and botanist.
He was perhaps most notable as an enthusiastic and popular television presenter of ecology and botany programmes. Bellamy appeared to lose his marbles in later life and moved completely into the climate change denial camp. From there, he repeated the usual cut-and-paste climate denial bullshit about corruption in scientific institutions. He also claimed that the BBC ostracised him because of his views BBC SHUNNED ME FOR DENYING CLIMATE CHANGE.
Bellamy retired from the climate change debate after he was ripped to pieces by George Monbiot on TV over an article that he wrote in the New Scientist George Monbiot and David Bellamy debating on YouTubeGeorge Monbiot and David Bellamy debating on YouTubeGeorge Monbiot and David Bellamy debating on YouTube. In that article, Bellamy claimed that a large percentage (555 of the 625) of the world's glaciers were actually advancing rather than retreating, when in fact the opposite is happening. Bellamy's supporters claimed it was a slip of the finger on the keyboard; in reality, it appears he lifted the statistic from rent-a-scientist Fred Singer's website. However, where Singer lifted that number from remains unclear.
 
==External links==
* David Bellamy interview in the Daily Express (From Wayback Machine)
* George Monbiot in The Guardian "Bellamy the Bearded Bungler doesn't disappoint"
* George Monbiot's correspondence with David Bellamy
==References==
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David D. Friedman

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David Director Friedman"Director" is his mother's maiden name, but given his politics, he could just as easily have adopted it as a political statement, after the tradition of the whacko assassin, (a.k.a., "Duke Cariadoc of the Bow") is an anarcho-capitalist writer, the author of a seminal book on the subject, The Machinery of Freedom, and a professor emeritus of law at Santa Clara University.David D. Friedman's profile on the Santa Clara University website Friedman is the son of Milton Friedman of Chicago School economic fame, and the father of Seasteading Institute co-founder 
==Credentials==
Despite his being a law professor and having written a seminal book on libertarian economics, he has never taken a class on either law or economics.Economist David Friedman Says India Must Go Taller To Make Homes Affordable by Shanu Athiparambath (February 14, 2016) Market Urbanism. Contrariwise, despite having a doctorate in theoretical physics, he has done nothing with his degree since completing it.
Friedman, after being given a knighthood eventually became a duke… in the where he has been larping at running a feudal estate since the 1960s.Positively Medieval (Sep 29, 2012; Updated Jun 13, 2023) The Detroit Jewish News.Cariadoc's Miscellany by David Friedman and Elizabeth Cook (1988-1992) Shadow Island Games. Like channelling, SCA is the kind of thing where everyone fantasizes about becoming a noble or someone important, but no one fantasizes about being Dennis the Peasant.Monty Python And The Holy Grail Dennis The Repressed Peasant YouTube. His participation in SCA does raise some interesting questions though, such as is he a real economist or lawyer, or was it just a larp?
==Politics==
Friedman is much more radical than many anarcho-capitalists, such as Murray Rothbard. Both he and the Rothbardians believe that all functions of government should be privatized and replaced by competing companies, such as private security firms, toll road operators, and arbitration courts. 
However, while the Rothbardians believe that all the competing companies should enforce a single body of law that has been reached by consensus, somewhat like how things were done in the medieval Icelandic Commonwealth or in pre-Cromwellian Ireland, Friedman believes that the legislative process should also be privatized, and there would be no rules at all except cuius regio, eius religio, or its equivalent with secular law. How (or whether) democracy then sets in is another debate altogether.
Friedman also differs from Rothbardians and other natural-law anarchists and libertarians in advancing purely utilitarian arguments for the model he advocates, without reference to ethics except in the context of the operation of law.
==See also==
*Utopia
==External links==
*The Machinery of What I Call Freedom
==Notes==
==References==
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David Fontana

David Fontana was a British psychologist, parapsychologist, spiritualist and pseudoscience promoter.
==Biography== 
Fontana was a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a Chartered Psychologist and a Chartered Counselling Psychologist. He published many books, including popular treatments of dreams and symbols. He also took interest in paranormal research such as mediumship, poltergeist cases and electronic voice phenomenon. He was at one time the president of the Society for Psychical Research, from 1995 to 1998.Biography of David Fontana
==Life after death==
Fontana was a convinced spiritualist and is most well known for his book Is There An Afterlife?: A Comprehensive Overview of the Evidence (2005). Fontana believed that hauntings (including poltergeists), mental and physical mediumship, claims for electronic communications from the dead, near-death and out-of-body experiences, and reincarnation were all real and evidence for an afterlife.Book Review by Anthony Campbell It is clear that Fontana was credulous when it came to the subject of life after death as he did not use any critical or skeptical material in his book. He took reports at face value and did not cite the evidence of fraud in mediumship. According to Fontana fraudulent mediums such as Helen Duncan, Eileen Garrett, Leslie Flint and Gladys Osborne Leonard were all genuine. 
Fontana was one of the few psychologists to accept many of the reports of physical mediumship as valid, but investigations into physical mediumship have proven fraud, such as ectoplasm made out of butter or muslin, or mediums using plastic dolls as spirits in seance rooms.
==Publications==
*Life Beyond Death: What Should We Expect? (2009)
*Creative Meditation & Visualization (2007)
*Is There An Afterlife?: A Comprehensive Overview of the Evidence (2005)
*Learn to Dream: Interpret Dream Symbolism, Enhance Inner Life, Remember Your Dreams (2004)
*Psychology, Religion and Spirituality (2003)
*The Secret Language of Symbols: A Visual Key to Symbols and Their Meanings (2003)
*Discover Zen: A Practical Guide to Personal Serenity (2001)
*Learn to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Self-Discovery and Fulfillment (1999)
*Meditation: An Introductory Guide to Relaxation for Mind and Body (1999)
*The Meditator's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Eastern and Western Meditation Techniques (1992)
==See also==
*Alan Gauld
==References==
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Category:Parapsychology
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Category:Psychics
David Hager

David Hager is an American nutjob anointed appointed to the Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by U.S. President George W. Bush in 2002. He has a medical board certification in obstetrics and gynecology.
==Accomplishments==
*He insisted that emergency contraception should be prescription-only and he refused to approve the over-the-counter sale of the "Plan-B" contraceptive pill. (American approval of the over-the-counter sale of Plan B was delayed until 2006, perhaps due to Hager's efforts in delaying/working against it.)
*He wrote the book Stress and The Woman's Body with his ex-wife Linda Carruth-Davis. In the book, the authors emphasized the "restorative power of Jesus Christ in one's life" and recommended specific Scripture readings and prayers for such ailments as headaches and premenstrual syndrome.
*His third book, Women at Risk: The Real Truth about Sexually Transmitted Disease was written in collaboration with a theologianThis guy: Donald Joy.. No synopsis is currently available.
==Sexual misconduct(s)==
===Round one===
In 1970, Hager married Linda Carruth Davis, and the couple divorced in 2002Well, that's exactly what happens if one follows the advice from the book they wrote together.. Linda Carruth Davis alleges that between 1995 and their divorce in 2002, Hager repeatedly sodomized her while she slept.Dr. Hager's Family Values. Ayelish McGarvey, The Nation 11 May, 2005. Accessed 15 May, 2009. And someone did not seem to have a problem with it.
===Round two===
In 2003 Hager married Lexington physician Kathleen Martin; in 2007 Dr. Martin filed for divorce from Hager, likewise citing sexual misconductThis is pretty much all the amount of detail you can find by Googling the two names; apparently every instances of the article mentioning the second marriage looks almost verbatim, perhaps due to being from the same place.
===Joke===
Q: What is the difference between Ted Haggard and David Hager?
A: The subtle difference between a strange man's arse and your wife's arse.
==External links==
*Time Online - Jesus and the FDA
*Memo May Have Swayed Plan B Ruling Washington Post FDA Received 'Minority Report' From Conservative Doctor on Panel May 12, 2005 Marc Kaufman
==References==
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David Hatcher Childress

David Hatcher Childress is an American self-described "rogue archaeologist" and "real-life Indiana Jones" who has written on more crank topics than most people can name. He appeared on a number of pseudoscience documentaries such as Ancient Aliens, Sightings and Encounters, and The Mysterious Origins of Man.
==Works and claims==
The full list of crank ideas he has supported over the years is vast and is quite well illustrated by the categories Childress' publishing company, Adventures Unlimited Press, proudly proclaims that it stocks: "Atlantic Studies, Alternative Health, Alternative Science, Ancient Aliens The Series, Ancient Science, Anti-Gravity, Conspiracy & History, Cryptozoology, Egypt & the Pyramids, Free Energy Systems, Geometry & Math, Holy Grail & Templar Studies, Lost Cities Series, Mysterious Phenomena, Mystic Travelers Series, Native American Studies, Philosophy & Religion, Strange Science, Tesla Technology, UFO's & Extraterrestrial and more."On its front page — at least he's not beating around the bush. Among those topics not explicitly on this list have been the Bermuda Triangle, pole shifts, hollow Earth, and secret societies.
Jason Colavito, in a sort of retrospective review of Childress' work in 2012, pointed out that Childress will pursue whatever bit of pseudohistory and related woo is currently in vogue, tracking Childress' switch from pseudohistorical claims about mysterious ancient civilizations tens of thousands of years oldAkin to Michael Cremo's nonsense or the bullshit claims about the Sphinx of Giza being 10,000 years old. to aliensdidit as the latter branch became more popular around 2010. Colavito concluded that Childress is simply an opportunist who will latch onto any trendy pseudohistorical crankery, illustrating this approach by contrasting Childress' dismissive statements about ancient astronaut claims between 1988 and 2005 with his enthusiastic support of such claims in 2011-2012.Jason Colavito, 2012, David Childress and the Aliens
His 2000 book Technology of the Gods was an exercise in self-plagiarism.part1 part2 part3 part4
==Conflict of interest==
Childress takes a hyper-permissive view of a publisher's duty to the public interest. On 16 June 2015 he posted a five-star Amazon review of one of his own books.More good stuff from Bara - review of Ancient Aliens and Secret Societies (link dead because Amazon gave it what it deserved, the boot) The author was the error-prone Mike Bara.
==Education==
He doesn't hold any credentials on any subject and he refers to himself as a rogue archaeologist, though given his (lack of) credentials he's more of a rogue than an archaeologist—just like his fellow "experts" on Ancient Aliens.
==See also==
*Aliensdidit
*Ancient Aliens
*Erich von Däniken
*History Channel
*Giorgio Tsoukalos
==External links==
*David Childress on IMDb
*His official site
==Notes==
==References==
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David Lane

David Lane (November 2, 1938 – May 28, 2007) was an American white nationalist and a founding memberhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lane_%28white_supremacist%29 of the terrorist organisation The Order.
==Early life==
According to Lane, his father was an abusive drunkard, and his mother worked as a prostitute to pay for his father's alcohol. He claims that since childhood he had found Christianity distasteful, preferring the Norse gods Wotan and Thor. When playing soldiers as a boy, he says, he preferred to play a Nazi.
By 1978, Lane came to the conclusion that "[t]he Western nations were ruled by a Zionist conspiracy...the Zionist conspiracy above all things wants to exterminate the White Aryan race." Lane was briefly a member of the John Birch Society before joining David Duke's Knights of the Ku Klux KlanDanger Extremism: The Major Vehicles and Voices on America's Far-Right Fringe by Alan M. Schwartz (1996) Anti-Defamation League. ISBN 0884641694. and also became involved with Aryan Nations and Tom Metzger's White American Political Association (now White Aryan Resistance).
==The Order==
In the eighties, he was one of the founding members of The Order (at one point named Bruder Schweigen, the Silent Brotherhood), inspired by the plot of William Luther Pierce's Neo-Nazi novel The Turner Diaries. Members of The Order were responsible for numerous crimes, including the murder of Alan Berg, a Jewish radio host who insulted Lane on-air.
In 1984, Lane aided members of The Order in the robbery of $3.6 million from an armoured truck and was arrested the following year following a clampdown on far-right groups. He was put on trial three times between 1985 and 1989 for various crimes and was sentenced to a total of 190 years in prison.
==Life and death in prison==
He continued to write propaganda while in prison. His writings coined the "Fourteen Words": "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." In 1995, he and his wife Katja founded 14 Words Press, a publishing company for white nationalist and Asatru material that came to be managed by Katja Lane with the aid of Ron McVan.Anti-Defamation League: David Lane
Lane died in prison (unsurprisingly) in 2007, aged 68.Anti-Defamation League: David Lane, white supremacist terrorist and ideologue, dies in prisonSouthern Poverty Law Center: Terrorist, '14 Words' Author, Dies in Prison According to Neo-Nazi activist April Gaede, who was given custody of his body, his ashes were to have been interred inside the capstone of a pyramid monument erected in a "white homeland" but, instead, settled on having his ashes placed in 14 smaller pyramids (the same number from his "14 Words") and entrusted to selected people.Southern Poverty Law Center: David Lane
==See also==
*ZOG
==References==
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David Lange

David Russell Lange (pronounced LONG-ee; 1942–2005) was the prime minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989. He ushered in a new free market economic ideology (odd for a Labour Party politician) that has had far reaching effects on New Zealand society, and is well known for his anti-nuclear policy. 
Under Lange, New Zealand refused to allow US warships to enter because it didn't want nuclear weapons in the country. New Zealand pulled out of ANZUS (the alliance between Australia, NZ, and the US), and began a bitter cold war against the Americans. (Well we didn't invite their ambassador for drinks at parliament, and Reagan said we were "batshit crazy" [paraphrasing]).
He was also famous for debating famous American spokesperson (now who's batshit crazy?) Jerry Falwell in the Oxford union debate on the point that nuclear weapons should be outlawed. It is generally agreed that Lange won and that Falwell was left in a blithering mess. The most famous quote to come out of the debate was Lange's comment toward someone who'd asked him to clear up an answer he'd given, to which he replied, "And I'm gonna give it to you if you just hold your breath. I can smell the uranium on it as you lean toward me". Lange's wit and delivery of the line caused even the questioner to laugh.
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