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John M. Lynch is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University. He's also affiliated with ASU's Center for Biology & Society. When he's not an historian of anti-evolutionism, he's an evolutionary morphologist. Much to his surprise, in 2007 he was named the Arizona Professor of the Year. No doubt his students were surprised as well.
July 31, 2006
Category: Humor
Believe it or not, the Flying Spaghetti Monster gets hate-mail ... or rather Bobby Henderson does. Check it out here .... it shows a remarkable lack of Christian compassion (and for that matter, spelling and grammar). Possible "highlight": As...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:16 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anti-evolution
Jerry Coyne has a piece in TNR Online on Coulter. Unfortunately, it's subscription only, but (see below) here is a highlight: The real reason Coulter goes after evolution is not because it's wrong, but because she doesn't like it--it doesn't...
Posted by John Lynch at 2:25 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: In Their Own Words
As Ed reports here, the mask has fallen away from ID. Joel Borofsky - Dembski's "research" assistant - has admitted that the push for "balance" in Kansas is nothing more than an attempt to inject ID into schools: It really...
Posted by John Lynch at 1:16 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
A quick puzzle ... I was born on this day in 1860 and have a 10502 foot peak named after me in Alberta. I helped my better-known husband (whom I married at the age of 54) with his fieldwork in...
Posted by John Lynch at 8:50 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 30, 2006
Category: Blog Memes and Such
Grrlscientist asked. I answer: I too had taken this before. I seem to remember having got a slightly lower score. Must be the extra memory in my new laptop :)...
Posted by John Lynch at 7:19 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
A recent Harris Poll found that 50% of Americans polled now say Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when it was invaded (up from 36% in 2005) and 64% say Saddam had "strong links" with al Qaeda. In other news,...
Posted by John Lynch at 4:55 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Seen in today's Arizona Republic: Use frozen embryos to end crisis Prime Minister Fuad Saniora of Lebanon, among others, has called for an immediate cease-fire to stem the rising tide of civilian casualties in his country. The Bush administration, through...
Posted by John Lynch at 4:15 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Sixty civilians huddling in a basement get murdered (there is, frankly, no other word for it) when Israeli shells hit the building in Qana. Condi Rice gets rebuffed by the Lebanese and heads home with her tail between her legs....
Posted by John Lynch at 2:57 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
I was going to post earlier on a New York Times article that discusses the harrassment that a Jewish family has recieved for asking that prayers at school events be made more generic and less Christian, but PZ beat me...
Posted by John Lynch at 7:05 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 29, 2006
Category: Blog Memes and Such
A few months ago I passed eighth grade math. Now I've gone and passed eight grade science. I feel so accomplished :) You Passed 8th Grade Science Congratulations, you got 8/8 correct! Could You Pass 8th Grade Science? Oh, and...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:21 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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