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Mike Dunford was a graduate student in the Department of Zoology at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, where he studied evolution. Life as an army spouse has since moved him on to Pensacola, where he's currently trying to figure out what to do next. While he's doing that, he writes stuff here, although not usually in the third person. He's also a contributer to The Pandas Thumb. As is the case with everyone else here, his opinions are his own, and do not necessarily represent those of any organization he is affiliated with.
September 30, 2007
Category: Religion in Politics
It's hard to believe, but there was once a time when I had some respect - even admiration - for John McCain. Now, all I have is pity. The guy sold his soul to the Christian Right, but they...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 8:04 AM • 8 Comments •
September 29, 2007
Category: Humor
Those tricky Culture Warriors - they've gone and launched the latest assault in the War on Christmas early this year, denying the Evil Secularist Conspiracy the chance to properly prepare for battle. They didn't wait until Thanksgiving this year,...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 10:19 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
A couple of weeks ago, I started making some changes to the blog. I had hoped to get all of them done that weekend, but the weather interfered with that plan. (It was nice; I went swimming.) This weekend,...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 5:07 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion in Schools
A couple of weeks ago, I posted two ridiculous quotes that are found in the Bob Jones textbook that's involved in the California Creationism lawsuit. I'm still wading through these texts and Behe's report explaining why it's really a...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 12:06 PM • 78 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 28, 2007
Category: Arthropods
A couple of weeks ago, I posted some pictures of some large spiders and asked for help in identifying one of them. Jerry Cates of Bugs In The News got back to me quite quickly, and identified the mystery...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 1:20 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 27, 2007
Category: Intelligent Design
Today's New York Times has a story up on the upcoming Ben Stein "documentary" on the alleged persecution that ID proponents face in the academic world. The NYT article quotes a number of scientists who were interviewed for the...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 11:59 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 25, 2007
Category: Intelligent Design
Most of the readers of this blog are intelligent, interested, scientifically literate individuals, but I'm guessing that at least a few of you aren't familiar with one of the nouns in the title. Those of you who do know...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 12:10 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 24, 2007
Category: An Incomplete Autobiography
The only problem was that I wasn't very good at baseball. That wasn't much of a handicap the first couple of years, but as games got more competitive I found myself spending less time playing, and more time sitting. And sitting takes a lot of the fun out of the game. Little league went from being something I loved to something I didn't care about. But then I wound up on Mr. Preda's team.
Posted by Mike Dunford at 6:28 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Moral Flexibility
If you love predictability, you've got to love the Discovery Institute. Whenever someone publishes a paper about human evolution, it's a pretty safe bet that someone there will soon take the time to explain how having learned something new...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 9:16 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 20, 2007
Category: Bipartisan
Gotta love it. The Senate today took a break from being paralyzed by Republican "No Up-Or-Down-Vote For You" obstructionists. They had to. You see, it's important for people to understand that the Senate isn't going to stand still when...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 5:43 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
