The First Commandment of Scientific Investigation: Being Honest Matters
Second commandment: Try not to be a moron. (FYI: observed instances of speciation) Hat Tip: TUIBG and Julia...Posted on April 29, 2008 7:10 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Darwin's Flower Experiments
Darwin did a LOT of stuff. It is amazing how often one can trace some basic bit of modern scientific knowledge to an observation or experiment Darwin while travelling on the Beagle, later on in his bathtub, or in his back yard. The NYT has...Posted on April 28, 2008 7:12 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
New NCSE Video
"Teaching Creationism in Schools," the second in a series of videos produced by NCSE, debuted at expelledexposed.com on April 23, 2008. The brief video presents three incidents in which NCSE helped concerned citizens to resist assaults on the integrity of evolution education. In the video,...Posted on April 25, 2008 5:10 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Expelled Dishonesty and Darwin
Steve Mirsky does a little Darwin Quote Mining reversal exercise in a recent post called "Never You Mine: Ben Stein's Selective Quoting of Darwin:" One of the many egregious moments in the new Ben Stein anti-evolution film "Expelled" is the truncation of a quote from...Posted on April 20, 2008 6:10 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What's in the air?
Good question ... what IS in the air? The simple answer is that the air ... the Earth's atmosphere ... is about 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, with a tiny amount of some other gases including water vapor. Then, there's dirt. I want to talk a...Posted on April 18, 2008 4:08 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
New Darwin Papers On Line!
A huge archive of Darwin's unpublished material has been put on line this week at The Complete Works of Charles Darwin. Many of his notebooks were already on line, but much of that was previously published (so the notes that were on line were actually...Posted on April 17, 2008 8:32 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Expelled in Texas
The following video is on the NCSE Expelled Exposed web site, but that site is getting so much use it is broken! So enjoy the video while we wait for ExpelledExposed to come back up... Expelled exposed is here....Posted on April 15, 2008 10:13 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Microsoft Networt Gives Expelled! A Feel Good Interview
Former conservative speech writer discusses economy (he feels that the economy is very strong) and intelligent Design Creationism here. [Hat Tip: Peter M.]...Posted on April 13, 2008 8:30 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Saving Science from Creationists and Framers: In support of a diligent, relentless critique
When you get a chance (not right now) have a look at this video. This is a piece done by Brian Rooney, a professional TV journalist with ABC News Nightline. He follows around Billy Jack and Rusty Carter, two young earth creationists who are leading...Posted on March 26, 2008 9:29 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
PZ Myers Expelled, Gains Sainthood
As you have undoubtedly heard, a group of evolutionary biologists and evolutionary biology supporters attended a showing of the movie Expelled, in the Twin Cities, last night. This group included the very famous Richard Dawkins and the only slightly less famous PZ Myers. PZ and...Posted on March 21, 2008 12:12 PM • 81 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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