James Hrynyshyn is a freelance science journalist based in western North Carolina, where he tries to put degrees in marine biology and journalism to good use.
Carl has added Jack Kemp to his pantheon of creationist-friendly pols after coming across the Republican presidential-wannabe's latest column, which attempts to cast doubt on the notion that pro-evolution forces aren't doing as well as the liberal media would have us believe.
I second Carl's motion and draw your attention to what has to be one of the most absurd comments to follow the publication of everyone's favorite anti-intellectual screed, Ann Coulter's Godless. Here's Kemp describing the reaction to the book:
Despite bitter denunciations by liberals, funny thing, there has been a thundering silence about the one-third of her book in which she deconstructs Darwinism.
Ah. Must be a use for the term "silence" with which I was not previously not familiar. Let's Google "Coulter" and "Darwin" and see what we find.
1. A Bloggingheads.tv clip in which the first thing we hear is a satirical reference to Coulter's well-known expertise as an evolutionary biologist.
2. A Skeptic Friends page lambasting Coulter's reasoning as nazi-like.
3. A Radioleft blog post in which Coulter's writing is described as "irrational ravings."
And so on ad naseum. Oh, but wait, there's a great item that makes No. 10: A Mediamatters column devoted to Coulter's inability to understand the most basic elements of evolutionary theory and column about her now infamous "Flatulent Raccoon" theory.
OK. That's enough. I know I didn't really need to prove anything to you. But it seemed incumbent to at least try to balance out of the blogosphere with a counterpost.
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