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Creationism:
Skeptics in Boston
My SciBling Mike the Mad Biologist will speak tonight at the Boston Skeptics meeting. The title of the talk is "Defending Evolution the Right Way: As a Fundamental Part of Biology and Biomedicine, Not as a Cultural Icon." so it...Posted on March 24, 2008 2:41 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Partial Loss of Face Recognition may be Associated with the ID(C) Locus: A Case Study
The latest case study can be found here....Posted on March 20, 2008 11:15 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Good news
The Florida Board of Education passed new science standards....Posted on February 19, 2008 4:37 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Intelligently Designed DNA
Someone did it. Get a prize if you correctly identify which one is intelligently designed. In both cases, the designer was an intelligent.....human. Of course. No media reports yet of bioengineering labs run by chimps, dogs, elephants or dolphins....Posted on January 31, 2008 2:31 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Huckabee on Evolution
Welcome to the 18th century Presidential candidate (under the fold):...Posted on January 29, 2008 11:41 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
My SciBling speaks at NESCent
From an e-mail from the Science Communicators of North Carolina: At noon on Friday, January 18, the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in Durham will host a seminar by Josh Rosenau, the Public Information Project Director at the National Center...Posted on January 11, 2008 10:34 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Creationism is Paganism, says Vatican
Archy reports that the papal official astronomer said so: Believing that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism, the Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno claimed yesterday. Brother Consolmagno, who works in a Vatican observatory in...Posted on December 7, 2007 1:38 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Three takes on the Creation Museum
John Scalzi (as well as this) Thomas Robey Jason Rosenhouse...Posted on November 26, 2007 10:10 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Judgment Day
I am not much of a TV watcher, but tonight at 8pm EST, I'll be tuning in to my local PBS station to see Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial. If you were too busy or bored to read all...Posted on November 13, 2007 9:03 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Now you can see "Flock of the Dodos" in the peace of your home
Randy Olson's movie had a very short and limited release. Reed rallied the troops so NCSU library got a copy and there was a public viewing that I could not attend. But now, everyone can watch it, as Jennifer reports....Posted on September 10, 2007 12:24 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dinner with Genie
Last night, Professor Steve Steve took off work a little earlier and went to Oakland to see the offices of the National Center for Science Education, then went to Berkeley for dinner with the NCSE staff and fans at Eugenie...Posted on July 27, 2007 3:52 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Biologists Helping Bookstores
Ha! Check out this brand-new blog! Ste is going to bookstores, checking out the Science section and moving pseudo-science, anti-science and nonsense books from it to the New Age section. Just a couple of Behe books in the La...Posted on July 21, 2007 3:46 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Adam meets Steve (Steve) in the Garden of Eden
Professor Steve Steve, Wesley Elsberry, Tara Smith and Jason Rosenhouse [edit: Part 3 is now available] went to that funny new "museum" in Kentucky and report about it so you don't ever have to go yourself!...Posted on June 24, 2007 9:44 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Update on psychology of Creationism
Two ancient posts of mine, Why Creationists Need To Be Creationists and Creationism Is Just One Symptom Of Conservative Pathology are getting heavy traffic right now from Stumbleupon and Reddit. I posted a comment there trying to get people to...Posted on June 3, 2007 1:26 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
More than just Resistance to Science
In the May 18th issue of Science there is a revew paper by Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick Weisberg. An expanded version of it also appeared recently in Edge and many science bloggers are discussing it these days. Enrique has...Posted on May 31, 2007 1:28 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Obligatory Readings of the Day - the Ken Hamm and Beyond edition
First, as I reported earlier, Archy persuaded PZ Myers to host a one-time carnival about the opening of the Creation Museum - and here is the carnival - a lot of good stuff to read. I especially liked the only...Posted on May 27, 2007 1:05 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Ken Ham Carnival!
You may have heard that Ken Ham is opening his freak show circus Museum of Creation "Science" in Cincinnati on May 28th. There will be protesters picketing. Hopefully there will also be people who will come in and laugh out...Posted on May 22, 2007 9:08 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Another job ad
If you are idle, retired or rich, if you live in (or are willing to move to) Oakland, California, if you have decent computer skills and if you want to help fight against Creationism, then this job is perfect for...Posted on May 8, 2007 4:39 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Mike has a great idea
Three out of ten Republican presidential candidates raised hands in the recent debate indicating they do not believe in evolution. Jason has an excellent round-up of responses (Arianna Huffington rocks!) with some good comments by readers as well. How can...Posted on May 6, 2007 2:41 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Did I frame that wrong?
As you know, the last several days saw quite a flurry of blog posts about framing science. I posted my thoughts here and I keep updating my post with links to all the new posts as they show up (except...Posted on April 11, 2007 11:44 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Framing Science - the Dialogue of the Deaf
My SciBlings Chris Mooney and Matt Nisbet just published an article in 'Science' (which, considering its topic is, ironically, behind the subscription wall, but you can check the short press release) about "Framing Science" Carl Zimmer, PZ Myers, Mike Dunford...Posted on April 7, 2007 3:33 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Blog Against Theocracy
Neural Gourmet and Blue Gal are organizing a massive blogospheric Blog Against Theocracy weekend: I'd like invite you all to Blog Against Theocracy. This is a little blog swarm being put together by everybody's favorite panties blogger Blue Gal for...Posted on April 5, 2007 11:05 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Suckered?
OK, admit, how many of you really got suckered? (in reference to yesterday) Quite a lesson in credulity and perception for many...(yup, I was in on the joke from the very beginning/planning/execution stages)...Posted on April 2, 2007 12:49 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Suckered
Suckered Suckered! Suckered?...Posted on April 1, 2007 9:49 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
At an IDC conference - Jason reports
Jason drove down to Knoxville and attended an ID-Creationist "conference" and lived to tell about it. And tell he did, in five installments: One Two Three Four Five All the usual suspects were there and all the usual nonsense was...Posted on March 31, 2007 1:53 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Intelligent Timekeepingism
This is, after all, A Blog Around The Clock, so, I guess I should be a strong and vocal proponent of the Clock Theory aka Specified clockplexity. After all, nobody's ever seen a clock move! So, I should start fighting...Posted on March 26, 2007 7:09 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Michael Egnor. Who?
In the back-channels here on Scienceblogs and on Panda's Thumb we were discussing the pros and cons of paying so much attention to one Dr.Michael Egnor, a new creationist shill for the Discovery Institute. Yes, it feels like a tremendous...Posted on March 20, 2007 1:24 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Feminism101
You know how on comment threads on blogposts about evolution you, sooner or later, get a commenter saying something that reveals complete lack of understanding of even the basics of evolutionary biology? It is usually accompanied by some creationist canard...Posted on March 20, 2007 2:23 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Reducible Complexity of John McCain
Evolution works according to a very small set of simple rules. If a) there is variation in a trait in a population and b) that variation is heritable and c) one variant is better adapted to the current local environment,...Posted on February 23, 2007 9:04 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Obligatory Reading of the Day: Ken Ham's version of Evolution
Archy gives a detailed explanation of the way Creationists explain away all the problems of the Noah's Ark story....Posted on February 20, 2007 8:58 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Style over Substance
Remember this, and use it next time you are debating religion, politics or pseudoscience: "....someone wearing nothing but a Peter Gibbons-esque cheerful smile and having nothing but kind words for anyone will always be wrong if he says 2 +...Posted on February 15, 2007 10:55 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Phillip Johnson and Ed Brayton Mindcast
Episode 64 of the Mindcast is up! Karl J. Mogel of the Innoculated Mind blog interviews Phillip Johnson and my SciBling Ed Brayton. The blogpost also contains a number of useful links to information about the Intelligent Design Creationism political...Posted on February 8, 2007 8:20 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Do We Need An Anti-Creationist Think-Tank?
Two years (January 28, 2005) have passed, but I am still not sure what the correct answer to this question is:...Posted on February 7, 2007 10:57 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Oh, how thoughtful of the Intelligent Designer!
A-ha! Finally! Now I understand the connection between Creationism and the overall anti-sex sentiment of the Fundamentalists! New reseaarch shows that E.coli swim upstream due to the Design of their flagellum! And where do they swim from and swim to?...Posted on February 3, 2007 2:01 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Science Under Attack II - blogospheric response
There are also more responses to the U of California lawsuit described by Sara Robinson the other day. See what Amanda and PZ Myers have to say about it. Edit: and Mike...Posted on January 27, 2007 2:08 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"What God Created on the Fourth Day?" is not an SAT question, sorry!
Most of our anti-Creationist battles are over efforts to infuse Christian religion into K-12 education. One common battlefield is the courtroom where our side has (so far, until/unless the benches get filled with more clones of Priscilla Owen) won. But...Posted on January 24, 2007 9:45 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
'Flock of Dodos' screenings in Raleigh
*N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences /Downtown Raleigh/ **Thursday, January 18 "Flock of Dodos" screening with filmmaker, Randy Olson 7:00 p.m. Museum Auditorium Free *Filmmaker and Evolutionary Ecologist , Dr. Randy Olson, presents his new film */Flock of Dodos/*: /*The...Posted on January 16, 2007 9:24 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Creationism spreading around the world...
Oy, vey! In Russia, a test of God vs. Darwin: ....She did not attend the first two court hearings and seems far less interested in the outcome than her father, Kirill Shraiber, who spoke to the court on her behalf,...Posted on January 3, 2007 11:53 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
2006: what a year for Intelligent Design!
This is the way Discovery Insitute intelligently designed the year. This is the way 2006 actually evolved...Posted on December 22, 2006 9:06 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Pictures of Professor Steve Steve
Below the fold are the pictures of me, Prof. Steve Steve and Rev.Big Dumb Chimp taken immediately after the Ken Miller talk in Raleigh. If we look a little drunk or high, it is because we were just subjected to...Posted on December 22, 2006 2:07 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If only people read the Bible the way they read their contracts...
So, why do Creationists and other quacks try so hard to sound all 'scienc-y'?Posted on December 22, 2006 11:08 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Beaten by Biologists, Creationists Turn Their Sights On Physics
So says Sahotra Sarkar in the latest American Prospect. Hat-tip: Neil the Ethical Werewolf...Posted on December 10, 2006 10:25 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Update on M&Ms
While all this was going on I was wondering where Jason Rosenhouse would stand on all of this. He is back from a break and has two posts on the issue here and here. Update: Chris Rowan wrote an intriguing...Posted on November 29, 2006 9:39 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I Like M&Ms
I am still sleepy from all that tryptophan in turkey meat and the Evolution wine, so I don't think I have the energy to write a big post now - I'll leave much of my thoughts on the matter for...Posted on November 24, 2006 12:26 AM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Darwin in Serbia
Two years ago, there was quite a brouhaha in the media when Serbian minister for education decided to kick Darwin out of schools. The whole affair lasted only a few days - the public outrage was swift and loud and...Posted on November 21, 2006 10:55 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Watch a horse explode!
This is a Pinto that has evolved by natural (and a little bit of artificial) selection: This is a Pinto that was intelligently designed: Casey Luskin does not understand the difference. Although, apparently, even the designed Pinto is always evolving:...Posted on November 20, 2006 6:42 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Reverend William Paley's Circadian Clock
An oldie but goodie (June 12, 2005) debunking one of the rare Creationist claims that encroaches onto my territory....Posted on November 15, 2006 11:02 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Shermer on Evolution
Michael Shermer has an interview in the latest American Scientist on Creationism and his new book Why Darwin Matters....Posted on November 14, 2006 8:37 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Ken Miller talk
Last night I went back to my old campus to attend the Dr. Robert Rabb Lecture by Ken Miller. The Stewart Theater was packed. I saw a lof of old friends, but, as it was crowded, only got to spend...Posted on November 7, 2006 1:35 PM • 4 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Ken Miller in Raleigh
Rev. BigDumbChimp alerts me that Ken Miller will be in Raleigh on November 6th, giving a lecture at NCSU at 7pm. Tickets are free but you have to have one in order to attend. You can get your tickets here....Posted on October 26, 2006 10:56 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Chuck Norris Creationist
Hmmm, didn't it occur to him for a moment that "survival of the fittest" may be true back when Bruce Lee beat him up?...Posted on October 23, 2006 10:43 PM • 26 Comments •
The "-ism" frame
In response to wonderful fisking by Ed of a really silly Creationist screed, Archy comments on the use of the terms "Darwinist" by Creationists, as a marketing tool to paint biologists as dogmatic, while at the same time avoding the...Posted on October 16, 2006 10:45 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Evolution Project And A Truly Fair And Balanced Fox
Meandering Musings on evolutionary psychology and many other things....Posted on October 11, 2006 11:00 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Equal Rights For Idiots!
Except that getting elected for office is not a right and saying that a Creationist is not to be trusted with governing is not bigotry. (Hat-tip: Lindsay)...Posted on October 10, 2006 11:35 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Big Teeth and some other Big Organs...
When you are hungry for news about mammoths, you go and visit Archy, of course. But this time, he moves sideways to take a look at mastodons, hippos and Ken Hamm. And the tail, or whatever that is.......Posted on September 25, 2006 2:31 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March Of The Penguins, again
Hungry Hyena has an interesting critique of the movie....Posted on September 16, 2006 2:57 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Wilkins is on a roll...
Why are creationists creationist? 4: How to oppose anti-science...Posted on September 13, 2006 9:57 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Obligatory Readings of the Day - why, why, why?
Why are religious people religious, in two parts: Why do religious wingnuts think the way they do? Part I and Why do religious wingnuts think the way they do? Part II Why are creationists creationists, in three parts: Why are...Posted on September 12, 2006 10:49 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
TalkOrigins.org FAQs at my fingertips
You know that I am excited about my kids' great start of school this year. Today when I picked them up from school, Coturnix Jr. informed me that he needed a piece of posterboard and some glue for his debate...Posted on August 31, 2006 9:56 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
PIG, PhD
Richard Hoppe further dissects Jonathan Wells' ideas about Ohio State University mentioned in Chapter 16....Posted on August 31, 2006 1:57 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
PIG at the altar
The fisking of Chapter 15 of Wells' PIG is now up on Panda's Thumb. It has something to do with church! Wonder, what has church to do with the "science" of Intelligent Design?!...Posted on August 31, 2006 7:22 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Slaughtering the PIG continues....
Mark Perakh debunks Chapter 16 of Jonathan Well's poor excuse of a book. The chapter is on alleged new "Lysenkoism" in today's American science, which has nothing to do with historical Lysenkoism....Posted on August 30, 2006 8:26 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Call for action!
Previously unopposed, "...the most notorious creationist on the Ohio State Board of Education, Deborah Owens Fink, has a challenger in the Novemeber 7th election." The election is non-partisan and the serious challenger is Tom Sawyer. You can get all of...Posted on August 29, 2006 11:54 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Secret is Lies
In the ongoing series of fiskings of Jonathan Wells' PIG book over on Panda's Thumb, Andrea Bottaro has posted his verbal destruction of Chapter 9....Posted on August 29, 2006 1:12 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Deep Wells of Dishonesty and Ignorance, Unveiling Slowly
I finally got to meet Reed Cartwright in person last night. Now that he is in Raleigh, and Panda's Thumb resides in my old building on campus, I hope I'll see him more often. Speaking of Panda's Thumb, it is...Posted on August 26, 2006 6:21 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Happy that the Common Ancestor is Common
As we age, our sleep gets less well consolidated: we take more naps during the day and wake up more oftenduring the night. This happens to other mammals as their age. Now we know that it also happens in Drosophila:...Posted on August 26, 2006 1:38 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Evolution and Design class
Allen McNeill's Cornell course on Evolution and Design is now over and the student papers have been posted online. Dan comments on some of them....Posted on August 18, 2006 2:04 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Will God win in Kansas today?
The eyes of the nation today are (or should be) on Kansas elections, as many Creationists on the school board are facing tough reality-based challengers. If you are in Kansas - go and vote. If you want to know how...Posted on August 1, 2006 8:01 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Why Creationists Need To Be Creationists
This is a long post trying to tie in Creationism and conservatism through psychology:Posted on July 26, 2006 10:59 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Great Men and Science Education
A two-part post on the proper use (or not) of Great Men in science education and in political movements.Posted on July 13, 2006 10:59 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It's hard teaching evolution in public schools in some places
Evolution's Lonely Battle in a Georgia Classroom: OCCASIONALLY, an educational battle will dominate national headlines. More commonly, the battling goes on locally, behind closed doors, handled so discreetly that even a teacher working a few classrooms away might not know....Posted on June 29, 2006 12:33 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks