Anti-Evolutionism:
On Sunday, Chris Mooney and Randy Olsen both tried to make the case that Ben Stein's "Evolution Caused the Holocaust" movie was a success at the box office. Both of them have been rather spectacularly condemned for calling Expelled...
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Posted on April 22, 2008 11:27 AM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Casey Luskin is currently in the middle of a multi-part "rebuttal" to Michael Shermer's review of Expelled. In the latest installment of his whine, Casey (again) brings up the case of Richard Sternberg. Sternberg, some of you might remember,...
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Posted on April 17, 2008 11:36 AM • 81 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It would seem that Mike Behe has, once again, managed to shoot an own goal in the courtroom.
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Posted on April 1, 2008 3:50 PM • 179 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
After so much time spent working on behalf of creationist groups, it probably shouldn't be surprising that Judge Otero spotted many of the same argument tactics in the Christian schools' legal filings that we see when we look at the day to day output of anti-evolution groups such as the Discovery Institute.
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Posted on April 1, 2008 2:56 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
On Friday, Judge James Otero of the Central District of California issued a ruling granting the University of California's request for partial summary judgment in the California Creationist Lawsuit. I've written about this case several times before now, but...
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Posted on April 1, 2008 10:30 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Last week, SUNY Stony Brook neurosurgeon and anti-evolution mouthpiece Michael Egnor decided to keep driving on with his "you don't need to understand Darwinian evolution to understand antibiotic resistance" crusade. His post is - predictably enough - a mass...
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Posted on March 31, 2008 2:44 PM • 57 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dr. Michael Egnor, of SUNY Stony Brook and the Discovery Institute, doesn't think that evolution is relevant to trying to figure out how to combat the spread of antibiotic resistance. The interesting areas of research, he believes, lie in...
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Posted on March 13, 2008 3:12 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Someone once pointed out that when a dog pisses on a fire hydrant, it's not committing an act of vandalism. It's just being a dog. It's possible to use that analogy to excuse a creationist who takes a quote...
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Posted on March 12, 2008 3:47 PM • 58 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Everybody's favorite creationist neurosurgeon is back. Today, Michael Egnor brought forth yet another remarkably inept attempt to find a way to justify egnoring the relationship between natural selection and antibiotic resistance. This time, he's apparently decided that there's no...
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Posted on March 7, 2008 12:44 PM • 104 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The bill in question provides "academic freedom" only to K-12th grade teachers and students who want to question evolution. It provides absolutely no protections for anyone who wants to question whether or not energy really does equal mass multiplied by the square of the speed of light. It gives no safe harbor to those who disbelieve the relationship between the pressure and volume of a gas. And if you dare to suggest that the mathematical establishment is dogmatically indoctrinating their unsubstantiated belief that the square of the length of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the remaining two sides, you're not going to get any help from the Florida legislature.
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Posted on March 3, 2008 12:14 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
We're now into the third day of the brouhaha that was sparked by Casey Luskin's misuse of the "Blogging About Peer-Reviewed Research" icon. Casey posted a few responses to criticisms in the discussion thread over at the BPR3 blog,...
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Posted on February 6, 2008 11:03 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yesterday, I wrote a post about Casey Luskin's misuse of the ResearchBlogging.org "Blogging about Peer-Reviewed Research" icon. Today, Casey removed the icon from his post, and provided an explanation for his actions. I'm glad that he decided to cease...
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Posted on February 5, 2008 3:33 PM • 31 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Casey Luskin has a post up over at the Discovery Institute's website that discusses an article that was recently published in PLoS Biology. The post itself is nothing particularly remarkable - Casey takes a paper that says that current...
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Posted on February 4, 2008 2:50 PM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Very early this morning, the Discovery Institute's Rob Crowther posted an article over at the DI's "why's everyone always picking on us" blog. I'm not exactly sure what inspired Rob to get some work done late on a Saturday...
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Posted on January 27, 2008 2:51 PM • 31 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Over at the Discovery Institute's blog, Rob Crowther is playing up the "Dissent from Darwinism" list. Again. The list is nothing new. They've been working on it for several years now, and have managed to accumulate "over 700" signatures...
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Posted on January 23, 2008 3:00 PM • 117 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
With all of the renewed fuss the Discovery Institute is trying to stir up over the Gonzalez tenure thing, this seems like a really good time to talk about the role of money in the tenure process. I'm not...
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Posted on December 6, 2007 7:41 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
One of the joys of procrastination is that sometimes if you wait long enough, someone else really will take care of things. I mention that because Ed Brayton just did a good job dismantling Casey Luskin's latest whine about...
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Posted on November 26, 2007 10:44 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
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Posted on September 29, 2007 12:06 PM • 78 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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 on September 27, 2007 11:59 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
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Posted on September 25, 2007 12:10 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
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Posted on September 24, 2007 9:16 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I've been continuing to put some time into criticizing Michael Behe's expert report on the creationist texts involved in the California Creationism Case. This is a slow process, partly because I'm also working on other projects and partly because...
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Posted on September 16, 2007 11:21 PM • 66 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
From an article in the Baptist Press, linked from the Uncommon Descent homepage: "You have to understand, in the current academic climate, Intelligent Design is like leprosy or heresy in times past," [Dembski] said. "To be tagged as an...
Posted on September 5, 2007 11:39 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Mike Dunford is a graduate student in the Department of Zoology at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, where he studies evolution. 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. 
