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Posted on: September 5, 2008 9:30 PM, by PZ Myers
I just noticed that it is September — we need to pick a new Molly award for August. Leave a comment and let us all know who you thought was a noteworthy, commendable, interesting commenter here on Pharyngula over the last month. I'll enshrine the most popular name at the end of the month weekend.
Comments
Posted by: Bill Dauphin | September 5, 2008 9:50 PM
I'll toss in a nom for negentropyeater. I was the average American had even half as much awareness and passion re the upcoming election.
Posted by: Buck Mulligan | September 5, 2008 9:50 PM
Here's my entry.
Sorry it's late...
Many people who proclaim intelligent design are really stealth
creationists. I'm not so naive that I've missed that. They are using
this as a way to get religion into the public schools, despite the fact
that it is specifically forbidden by the constitution. Unfortunately,
this has given the concept of intelligent design a bad name. Do not
confuse me with these people. I have no religious agenda and I am
adamantly opposed to teaching creationism in the public schools. I am
also adamantly against spending one cent of my tax dollars to support
religious schools in any way. I am opposed to paying for transportation
to religious schools, I'm opposed to spending taxpayer dollars on
textbooks for religious schools and I am adamantly opposed to prayer in
any form in the public schools.
The fact is, I'm a fairly uncommon species of ID'er, being as I
have been an atheist for most of my life and I am now an agnostic. I see
no evidence for a benevolent and all-powerful god and frankly, any
mention of religion or god often produces an advanced dyspepsia. If you
want to know more about me, you can check out my website below.
Anyway, I also consider darwinian evolution to be probably the
biggest hoax in the last millenium. How it got as far as it has with
absolutely no observational and experimental evidence to support it
boggles my mind. Think about it for a moment. You've been had. The
evidence that is claimed is just not there. Take a look. Don't believe
me, if you don't want to. It's a story that people made up, and it
sounds good and it took hold of people's imaginations. It then grew over
time as it was promoted as the TRUTH by generations of evolutionists and
taught in institutions of higher learning by renowned professors. Part
of it's strength comes from a fear of creationism. This battle between
religion and science has been waged for centuries. This is just one more
battle in that war. Both science and religion claim to have truth on
their side. The only problem with evolution is the facts were NOT there
and science got caught with it's metaphorical pants down around it's
knees. Creationists arguments against darwinism are mostly right on the
mark. Instead of fessin' up, science has chosen to wage a rhetorical war
with creationists. This war will be lost, because the theory is so
defective that even a layperson can see through it. If we want to save
science, we have to stop promoting an obsolete, useless theory and get
busy doing what we should be able to do best, find the truth. And if the
truth is unattainable because we have no way of determining it by
observation or experiment, we should retreat from the battlefield, admit
that we don't know and probably never will and get on with the true
business of science. And leave the rhetoric and hyperbole to the
philosophers and pundits.
Posted by: Epikt | September 5, 2008 9:59 PM
Buck Mulligan:
If you're trolling for a Molly, you might want to try an alternate strategy.
Posted by: Stephen Couchman | September 5, 2008 10:01 PM
Buck, did you just apply for a Molly?
Approbation of ur peers -- ur doin it wrong.
Posted by: Patricia | September 5, 2008 10:03 PM
Sweet mother of luck! I get to say it:
WHAT THE FUCK BUCK?
Haaaaa!
Posted by: Jason | September 5, 2008 10:04 PM
^@#2
"Concern troll - Someone who posts to an internet forum or newsgroup, claiming to share its goals while deliberately working against those goals, typically, by claiming "concern" about group plans to engage in productive activity, urging members instead to attempt some activity that would damage the group's credibility, or alternatively to give up on group projects entirely."
Posted by: Larry Ayers | September 5, 2008 10:05 PM
Buck Mulligan, that is just way too long a comment for any blog. One paragraph, a short one I should add, is more than enough text to convey an idea. Condense! Be brief!
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp, KoT | September 5, 2008 10:05 PM
Buck. Please. Keep it in your pants. It's nothing to be proud of.
Posted by: James F | September 5, 2008 10:08 PM
How it got as far as it has with absolutely no observational and experimental evidence to support it boggles my mind.
Buck, have you read any peer-reviewed scientific research, ever? Replace "it" with "intelligent design" and then you'd be on to something.
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp, KoT | September 5, 2008 10:10 PM
PZ can we start a new thread for Buck. This is sure to derail Mollification.
Posted by: Buck Mulligan | September 5, 2008 10:10 PM
"that is just way too long a comment for any blog. One paragraph, a short one I should add, is more than enough text to convey an idea. Condense! Be brief!
And the told Mozart that his compositions had "too many notes".
Posted by: Patricia | September 5, 2008 10:11 PM
Thanks Chimpy, there went the sangria, lime wedges and blue berries all over the screen.
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp, KoT | September 5, 2008 10:11 PM
Did you just compare that piece of tripe you posted above to Mozart?
BWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWahahahahahahaha
Posted by: roddg | September 5, 2008 10:12 PM
I'd like to see Rev. BigDumbChimp get one this time around. I find what the Rev. writes humorous,insightful,and just plain fun.
Posted by: James F | September 5, 2008 10:14 PM
Seconding Rev. BigDumbChimp.
Posted by: Buck Mulligan | September 5, 2008 10:14 PM
"And the told Mozart that his compositions had "too many notes".
That would be "they"
Posted by: Michael X | September 5, 2008 10:16 PM
I'm for the Rev.
Posted by: Patricia | September 5, 2008 10:16 PM
2nd BigDumbChimp!
Buck, buddy, you've got mulligan stew for brains - you're on the wrong thread. Zip up and haul your notes off this one.
Posted by: Michael X | September 5, 2008 10:18 PM
Buck, this is not the proper thread for debates on ID or evolution. Please refer to any number of other threads that can be used for that purpose. Thanks.
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp, KoT | September 5, 2008 10:21 PM
That would still be "teh suck".
Posted by: Patricia | September 5, 2008 10:23 PM
Do we only get one vote PZ? I have three nominees in mind & if you leave it open for a whole month it's gonna be worse than the election! ;)
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp, KoT | September 5, 2008 10:28 PM
I'm drinking way to many beers wondering if Hanna is going to show up.
Posted by: oaksterdam | September 5, 2008 10:29 PM
SC
She's mastered the art of dropping concentrated nuggets of wisdom on godbotherers, rightwingeers and concern trolls. I raise a double shot of Corzo in her general direction.
Patricia
Might have the most screwy sense of humor on the intertubez. Another Corzo toast, this one northwards.
RevBigDumbChimp
Shit. The quality tequila goes to my head quick. *burp* cheers.
Posted by: Nerd of Redhead | September 5, 2008 10:31 PM
I'm still learning who is who around here, and most of the memorable posters already have an OM. Still, the Rev. BigDumbChimp stands out as someone who held fast during the Crackergate affair, and whips up a mean bacon and/or barbecue. Negentropyeater is another name that has come up big recently. Patricia is always good for a smile, and I can smell her pies through the intertubes.
Posted by: Hank Fox | September 5, 2008 10:31 PM
I nominate Buck Mulligan for this month's Aunt Clara Award. (After the befuddled character on Bewitched who collected doorknobs.)
Posted by: AlanWCan | September 5, 2008 10:37 PM
Buck Mulligan spewed:
Did you just (a) compare yourself to Mozart and (b) quite a FUCKING HOLYWOOD MOVIE as if it were history?Go back to AiG where your bloviating will be appreciated. Dumbass.
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp, KoT | September 5, 2008 10:37 PM
ruined me.
and I'm blushing at the nominations all. Thanks
Posted by: Nerd of Redhead | September 5, 2008 10:37 PM
OT, has anyone heard from MAJeff? I wonder how the dissertation is going.
Posted by: cicely | September 5, 2008 10:43 PM
Another vote for Rev.BigDumbChimp. KoT.
Posted by: SC | September 5, 2008 10:45 PM
OT, has anyone heard from MAJeff? I wonder how the dissertation is going.
How thoughtful. Yes, I've been in touch with him - including today, in fact. He's working on the dissertation and busy with teaching. All is well, and the work is coming along. :)
Posted by: Patricia | September 5, 2008 10:46 PM
Thank you Oaksterdam, I know you mean well. But I am a properly stayed ignorant slut, and a twelve titted sow worthy of State Fair entry.
There is nothing 'screwy' about my sense of humor. How dare you, pup!
Posted by: Bride of Shrek OM | September 5, 2008 10:47 PM
I'm going to second oaksterdam exactly.
1) SC - because she's always intelligent, witty and and insightful
2) Patricia- apart from the "solidarity amongst sluts" factor, she's quirky, funny, totally skewers the trolls and its time we honoured her.
and lastly
3) The good Reverend. Not only does he have one of the coolest names on the intertoobs, he's a straight talking generally kick arse all round commentator.
Posted by: Feynmaniac | September 5, 2008 10:52 PM
I'd like to nominate Nick Gotts and SC for this month's Molly. I'd also be happy with Rev. BigDumbChimp.
I'd also like to nominate Buck Mulligan for an anti-Molly for his unnecessarily long winded comment in a post that had nothing to do with what he wrote and for his egomaniacal comparison of said comment to the works of Mozart.
Posted by: The Chemist | September 5, 2008 10:55 PM
Hmm,
Let's see, the Reverend, Patricia, and just to throw in an underdog, Darth Wader.
Though to be fair, that's mostly based on my short term memory (i.e. September).
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp, KoT | September 5, 2008 10:58 PM
Jeez I thought Patricia and SC had one already...
I vote for those two for sure.
Posted by: Nibien | September 5, 2008 11:01 PM
This Buck guy isn't a very good troll.
Posted by: Rey Fox | September 5, 2008 11:10 PM
Well, the cracker affair was last month, lately it's been mostly electoral politics, so my votes go to negentropyeater (what does negative entropy taste like?) and frog.
Posted by: Stephen Couchman | September 5, 2008 11:22 PM
I see Patricia's OM-dom (there's a weird kink for you) as inevitable, so my vote is for SC this time around.
Posted by: IBY | September 5, 2008 11:22 PM
I nominate myself! Just kidding, I nth BigDumbChimp. ^_^
Posted by: Mercurious | September 5, 2008 11:22 PM
I'll throw a vote out to the good Rev also. My biggest concern would be that if someone didn't know better they would think he was just throwing random letters at the end of his name to sound better. Like a large number of creotards. But at least we would have the satisfaction that the Rev's would be well earned.
Posted by: Patricia | September 5, 2008 11:25 PM
Huzzah for the Aunt Clara brass doorknob award! I nominate Scott from Oregon, WTF Buck and that fundament Salt.
Posted by: Eric Saveau | September 5, 2008 11:27 PM
I'll raise a campaign sign for the Reverend, as well.
Posted by: richbank | September 5, 2008 11:33 PM
I nominate John Stewart and Rev. Bigdumbchimp for mollies.
Posted by: richbank | September 5, 2008 11:36 PM
*Mollys. I should proofread :/
Posted by: Patricia | September 5, 2008 11:38 PM
Gotta sell snake oil and eggs in the morning - so before I go to bed. I nominate BigDumbChimp, SC and Holbach.
Holbach never, NEVER gives a fool religotard one inch. He doesn't back down or back off. Some may not like his style, but when it comes to debating the pew slingers I know I can always count on Holbach.
Posted by: Disciple of | September 5, 2008 11:48 PM
I'd just like to point out that Molly Ivins was a *TRUE TEXAN* through-and-through. Additionally, I'd like to point out that the Church of the Subgenius was founded by "Bob" in Dallas. Figure that out for yourself and send one dollar, or don't.
Molly, "Bob", and the tragically under-celebrated Amon Carter (look him up, folks) *personify* Texas in my mind. I am more than a bit bewildered by the way the GOP mind-virus has transformed what was historically fiercely independent Texas into just another branch on the Jesusland Tree.
Posted by: Jared | September 5, 2008 11:53 PM
Another thumbs up for the Rev.
Posted by: Michael X | September 5, 2008 11:56 PM
Don't thank us. New OM's buy the beer.
Posted by: speedwell | September 5, 2008 11:56 PM
Rev. BDC for me! He comments on a lot of the blogs I read, and the other day I started wishing there was a Molly for the whole Internet. Thanks Brother BDC for being consistently awesome!
Posted by: speedwell | September 5, 2008 11:59 PM
I also totally agree with Patricia about Holbach. Someone needs to fling the religiotards' Hell fantasies back in their chattering teeth with great force. Holbach is the fighter for the job. Give 'em Hell back, Holbach. :)
Posted by: Kobra | September 6, 2008 12:01 AM
I'm not a bandwagon person, so can I use my vote to deduct one from BDC's vote count? No? Alright fine, you talked me into it. I'm voting for Rev. BDC. Don't try to talk me out of it now.
Posted by: epsilon | September 6, 2008 12:11 AM
I'd like to cast a vote for Rev. BigDumbChimp as well.
Posted by: BobbyEarle | September 6, 2008 12:20 AM
The good reverend gets my vote.
I sorta like the sound of "Rev.BigDumbChimp, KoT, OM"
Posted by: Randy Stimpson aka Intelligent Designer | September 6, 2008 12:23 AM
Yeah ... I vote for Rev BDC too. He spends all day at work commenting on this blog so he should get something for his employer's money.
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp, KoT | September 6, 2008 12:29 AM
Randy part of my responsibilities as king of Typos is to comment frequently so as to maximize the chance and number of typos.
I'm sorry you have a problem with that.
Posted by: truth machine, OM | September 6, 2008 12:32 AM
I missed a lot of August, but here's my half cent:
negentropeater
SC
As for Buck's offering, the very act of posting it here displayed the same sort of intelligence as its content.
Posted by: Physicalist | September 6, 2008 12:39 AM
RBDC, KoT, OM
Posted by: Capital Dan | September 6, 2008 12:49 AM
Chimpy (the BigDumb Rev. one) gets my vote.
His theme song is "Typo Through the Tulips." It's not as catchy as "Shaft," but it's damn funky.
Posted by: szqc | September 6, 2008 12:53 AM
The Rev for OM!!!
Buck for a new award: Odor of the Ben [or is that Ben Odor said 3 times fast...]
(I'd recommend "Lord Privy Seal" but someone more famous already used that reference...)
Posted by: James F | September 6, 2008 1:10 AM
#58
His theme song is "Typo Through the Tulips." It's not as catchy as "Shaft," but it's damn funky.
You see, this cat Chimp is a baaaad mother....
Posted by: CanadianChick | September 6, 2008 1:14 AM
my vote is for the Reverend too!
Posted by: Capital Dan | September 6, 2008 1:19 AM
Who's the sexy chimp
who types like a gimp?
Rev.
Daaaamn right.
Who is the man
who's fingers type like big ol' hams?
Rev!
Can ya dig it?
I'm talkin' about Chimp, baby!
Posted by: Mike | September 6, 2008 1:19 AM
'Scuse me noobishness but what does KoT stand for? All I can think of is the King of Town from homestarrunner =p
Posted by: The Cheerful Nihilist | September 6, 2008 1:27 AM
James F @ 60
Shut yo mouth!
I'm for the Rev.BDChimp. See the mischief he makes just by being nominated?
(Kudos to Capital Dan; you, brother, are all upper-case!)
Posted by: LanceR | September 6, 2008 1:30 AM
Watch your mouth!
Oh. We're talking 'bout Chimp? Oh. Well... that's all right, then.
Posted by: Brain Hertz | September 6, 2008 1:31 AM
Rev. BigDumbChimp would be a worthy winner entirely on the strength of comments in this thread alone ;-).
Posted by: truth machine, OM | September 6, 2008 2:07 AM
'Scuse me noobishness but what does KoT stand for?
See #55
Posted by: mayhempix | September 6, 2008 2:13 AM
Chimp
Patricia
Gotts
Chimp because he is the one and only Rev. BigDumbChimp.
Patricia because she is so blunt it hurts when I smile and so funny that I smile when it hurts..
Yeah, I know Gotts and I have gotten into it, but I can appreciate and respect his consistency and clarity.
"I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth."
Molly Ivins
Posted by: Hairy Doctor Professor | September 6, 2008 2:18 AM
Until I checked a few minutes ago, I would have smugly bet against all his bananas that the good Reverend already had a Molly. That he doesn't is a shameful situation that should be remedied as quickly as possible. Here's one more vote for the Chimp. (There's a joke in here somewhere about monkeys and typewriters and more letters to type, but my fuzzy brain is having a hard time coming up with one at this hour.)
Posted by: Randy Stimpson aka Intelligent Designer | September 6, 2008 2:24 AM
I don't have a problem with you Rev BDC. You have my vote. It's the affirmative action thing to do. All the other winners are smart -- I mean human :P
Posted by: Barack Obama | September 6, 2008 2:34 AM
Obviously, the winner should be whichever post sang the highest praise for me, Obama, your savior. Come, my children, my flock, find the post that best described the light and glory of me, Obama, and I shall lead you unto the promised land, a land of milk and honey, where government can tax us all into prosperity. Amen.
Posted by: Michael X | September 6, 2008 2:38 AM
I always knew Obama's lowest opponents were liars. But impersonators? Calling Dr. Freud...
Posted by: Sigmund | September 6, 2008 2:56 AM
You rang?
Posted by: Ragutis | September 6, 2008 3:06 AM
I didn't know we could do these ourselves until Buck posted. Awesome! I hereby nominate myself by nominating Patricia and/or negentropyeater. Probably Patricia if I had to pick one, what with the boobs and sluttiness and all.
Rev. BigDumbChimp, KoT, OM is just a little much. And pronouncing yourself "King of Typos" is a little bit pretentious. Imean, WTF, some of us other folkd suck at typng too.
Posted by: Wayne Robinson | September 6, 2008 3:08 AM
Surely Buck Mulligan must be an alias, and his posting must be a Poe. I mean, Buck Mulligan is a character in James Joyce's "Ulysses". I know, because he appears prominently in the only part of the novel I managed to finish (the first sentence).
Posted by: Zeno | September 6, 2008 3:18 AM
I like the Rev.
Ook!
Posted by: Ragutis | September 6, 2008 3:21 AM
Hey, "Barack"... you might want to read your own tax plan there buddy, because I think it says that you're only going to increase taxes on corporations, dead people, the most profitable of small businesses and the 5% of U.S. citizens that are making over $250,000 a year.
Not knowing that could make you look kinda like an idiot.
Don't worry, I'll be doing all I can to get you elected and slamming assholes that try to distort your positions.
Posted by: Alan Kellogg | September 6, 2008 3:24 AM
I'll go with Rev BigDumbChimp this time around, and this time because I think he's earned it.
It's fun reading somebody who has my talent for typos combined with absolutely no skill at proofing.
Posted by: clinteas | September 6, 2008 4:16 AM
In a month where the above average posts came mainly from the usual suspects and OMs,I second the vote for the RevBDC ,and Negentropyeater.
Posted by: MarkW | September 6, 2008 5:05 AM
Rev. BigDumbChimp, KoT
Nick Gotts
negentropyeater
O/t but Buck: "I have no religious agenda" -- I think your pants are on fire.
Posted by: Matt Heath | September 6, 2008 5:21 AM
The bio version of the crackpot index doesn't have "Compares self to Mozart". I'm saying about 15 (since the original physics version gives 10 for Einstein and 20 to Newton)
Posted by: negentropyeater | September 6, 2008 5:33 AM
Thx for those who nominated me.
I found the Rev., SC, Nick Gotts, and Bill Dauphin molly worthy.
Posted by: Matt Penfold | September 6, 2008 5:35 AM
I vote for Patricia, just so long as she promises to flash those petticoats at us!
Posted by: negentropyeater | September 6, 2008 5:45 AM
And BTW, I am quite passionate about ths election, and the choice for Obama.
Not that I think that he's perfect, but he's the only small chance that something might change in America.
When you have this small chance, you take it, or you just accept the certainty that nothing will change.
Posted by: clinteas | September 6, 2008 6:02 AM
Neg,No 84 :
Unfortunately you and I are not voting in that election...
Its like asking the vampires to vote for van Helsing as their new President...they might not want to...
Posted by: negentropyeater | September 6, 2008 6:12 AM
... and once you've taken that chance, the hard work starts, you've got 4 years to try to influence, as much as you possibly can, through the blogs, through civil disobedience, through an active expression and manifestation of your opinion, that change.
On the other hand, when you already know that nothing is going to change within the next 4 years, what can you do, apart from waiting for the next presidential election ?
Then you are left with having to accept the myth, wilfully cultivated by the people in positions of power, that the only influence on democracy that you can have as a regular citizen, is through your vote.
It's this idea of "abondonement" that I found so particularly frustrating. History shows that it's because there are people who are passionate and do not accept this as a given, that we can progress.
Posted by: 386sx | September 6, 2008 6:16 AM
I would like to vote for Mrs Tilton please. Also for Owlmirror too.
Posted by: negentropyeater | September 6, 2008 6:21 AM
Owlmirror was awarded a Molly last month...
Posted by: 386sx | September 6, 2008 6:25 AM
Then I will vote for negentropyeater and Mrs Tilton.
Posted by: JoJo | September 6, 2008 6:25 AM
Another vote for Patricia.
If we're using the Australian preferential voting systems, then:
1. Patricia
2. Rev.BigDumbChimp, KoT
3. negentropyeater
Posted by: 386sx | September 6, 2008 6:31 AM
1. Mrs Tilton
2. negentropyeater
3. JoJo
Posted by: SC | September 6, 2008 7:03 AM
Mrs. Tilton won one in February.
Posted by: Sili | September 6, 2008 7:12 AM
What the slut said. (The original, OM, one.)
Posted by: The Chimp's Raging Id | September 6, 2008 7:22 AM
Posted by: The Chimp's Raging Id | September 6, 2008 7:25 AM
Buck - you're a lying sack of shit. Get lost.
Posted by: senecasam | September 6, 2008 8:05 AM
Even though he spells Cackalackee wrong, I throw my support behind fellow Palmetto Stater Rev. BigDumbChimp.
Posted by: leeleeone | September 6, 2008 8:26 AM
1) Negentropyeater.
If my vote counts.
2) Patricia.
3) Rev. BDC, KoT
Posted by: Sastra | September 6, 2008 8:28 AM
People here mention some good candidates, but imo the Mollies for August should be a slam-dunk for guestbloggers Danio and LisaJ (MAJeff and I already have Mollies.) Hey, coming up with a topic and writing an entire post from scratch is hard! And they were both EXCELLENT, setting a very tough standard, and doing PZ proud.
Just to refresh memories:
Danio blogged on: Speedo LZR Racer suit; Matt Nisbet; Libby Purves vs. Dawkins; global awareness; contraception and abortion; "Evolve;" a victory for rationalism at UC; Scienceblogs survey; "giving up the ghost" and dealing with death; sensory cell neurobiology; Usher syndrome I, II, III, AND IV; cephalopods strike back; religion banning books; miracle poll; stealth anti-choice activism
LisaJ blogged on: study on embryonic stem cells; PETA and Phelps; "Obama Fatigue;" How to pretend you give a shit about the election; invisibility cloak; promoting a scientific mind; war in Afghanistan; solar eclipse; paleontology discoveries; Sonic Hedgehog; crashing "Under God" poll; brainwashed into murder; religious physicians refusing to treat patients
My votes go to Danio and LisaJ. There's no way they should be Mollie-less.
Very, very well done, both of you.
Posted by: Logicel | September 6, 2008 8:39 AM
AJ Milne. Why? Because of the consistent quality of Milne's comments: erudite, witty, thoughtfully provoking, and in general, just smashing.
James Joyce's character who came to life at the start of this thread made my day. Most likely of the Poe-ish persuasion, if not, either way, just hilarious.
Posted by: CosmicTeapot | September 6, 2008 8:40 AM
Rev. BigDumbChimp and Negentropyeater are normally obvious choices for me, but ...
I'm going for Bill Dauphin, just for comment 142 on the "This is how we will lose" thread. Well worth a second read.
Posted by: Logicel | September 6, 2008 8:47 AM
Sastra @98, yup, you are right, Sorry, Milne, I withdraw my nomination (maybe next time?) and instead submit Danio and Lisa J.
Posted by: Jason | September 6, 2008 8:48 AM
@2
Darwin made the incredible (and completely unlikely) prediction of a moth with a foot long feeding tube that can pollinate a very unusual orchid in Madacascar.
And thats just for starters: evolution has, and continues to, make accurate, and often astounding predictions all the time (and these ARE the same types of predictions that physicists and other scientists make, the only difference is the scale), especially in the field of genetics; which it utterly dependent on the truth of evolution: nothing in biology has an explanation without it.
I'm speaking as a physics student; but I can fairly say that no scientist (even Einstien, as much as I love him) made a more significant contribution to his field of study than Charles Darwin with his theory of evolution. It is a tradgedy that he doesn't recieve the same praise and respect among the common populace as he deserves.
Posted by: Paguroidea | September 6, 2008 9:10 AM
Danio and LisaJ!!! They are outstanding. I agree with Sastra #98.
Posted by: LisaJ | September 6, 2008 9:12 AM
Thanks for the nomination Sastra (and Logicel) and for your very kind words. Very much appreciated. By the way, you also did a fantastic job as a guest blogger.
Posted by: Tim Fuller |