Creationism:
There is a point that I've been trying to make for the last few weeks now, off and on, and it is not working. So I'm going to try something new. Please bear with me, and consider the following three scenarios regarding the idea that...
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Posted on May 13, 2008 12:09 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Is a semi-organized effort to 'crash' obnoxious internet polls ethically acceptable? Is it boring? Is it stupid? I sometimes ask myself that question. But it's complicated and will take a while to work out. In the mean time, PZ Myers points out this poll regarding...
Posted on May 13, 2008 7:50 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
... in fact, it is kind of an ethico-moral responsibility and a virtual obligation of PZ Myers and his vast readership. There have been a number of cases recently where an internet (meaning, on a web page) poll regarding a politically charged topic usually linked...
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Posted on May 11, 2008 10:34 AM • 42 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
NCSE Press Release: House Bill 923 was among the hundreds of bills that died in the Alabama legislature "because they did not pass in the house where they were introduced," the Associated Press (May 7, 2008) reports. The latest in a string of "academic freedom"...
Posted on May 9, 2008 6:15 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
You Can't Hide ...I landed a job in Kansas. Finally, a state with some horse sense! But even here the Darwinian octopus had insinuated its fetid tentacles, depriving the good and open-minded high school students of the state the right hear to both sides...
Posted on May 8, 2008 8:15 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Courtesy of the National Center for Science Education...
Posted on May 6, 2008 10:05 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm talking about the May 4th Podcast of Atheist Talk, from the Minnesota Atheists. The first half was an interview of Lois Schadewald, editor of her brother's posthumous work "Worlds of their Own" ... a book of essays on pseudoscience. The second half was an...
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Posted on May 5, 2008 5:01 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I've been laid up with a nasty disease the last few days, so I've not been doing much productive. But I have gotten some TV watching in. Just in time, too. Has anyone else noticed that House (last night) and Numbers (tonight, in fact, airing...
Posted on May 2, 2008 10:27 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A Missouri House Committee has just approved for consideration of the House an Academic Freedom Bill drafted with the aid of the Discovery Institute. The bill has a nice twist to it in that it prohibits the consideration of any boundary or difference between religion...
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Posted on May 1, 2008 10:34 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Expelled!, the so called documentary, has a web site on MySpace. Recently they ran a poll asking if Intelligent Design should be taught in schools or not. The results of that poll overwhelming indicate "no" ... with 420 thousand "nay" votes and fewer than one...
Posted on April 29, 2008 5:37 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
