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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.
March 31, 2007
Category: Anti-evolution
Given the question, 'Is evolution well-supported by evidence and widely accepted within the scientific community?', 48% of Americans say 'No'. Now, whatever about the "well-supported by evidence" clause (it is), evolution is "widely accepted" and even the anti-evolutionists admit it....
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Category: Anti-evolution
I spent this afternoon giving a public talk to the Greater Phoenix Mensa Regional Gathering. The topic was the history of anti-evolutionism (largely Intelligent Design) in this country over the past twenty years. Slides (without my soft Irish accent)...
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Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
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March 30, 2007
Category: Blog Memes and Such
You scored as Existentialism. Your life is guided by the concept of Existentialism: You choose the meaning and purpose of your life. "Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything...
Posted by John Lynch at 11:36 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Carnivores
Sea otters "holding hands" at the Vancouver Aquarium. This is especially for PZ as I know he deep down really likes mammals and that whole cephalopod thing is just a front. ( Via Boing Boing.)...
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Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
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March 29, 2007
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
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March 28, 2007
Category: Evolution
I don't have time to comment at the moment (perhaps over the weekend), but this looks interesting: The big dinosaur extinction of 65 million years ago didn't produce a flurry of new species in the ancestry of modern mammals after...
Posted by John Lynch at 10:01 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
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March 27, 2007
Category: Intelligent Design
Somewhat predictably, Dembski has posted this comment by Freeman Dyson: My opinion is that most people believe in intelligent design as a reasonable explanation of the universe, and this belief is entirely compatible with science. So it is unwise for...
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