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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.

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March 31, 2007

The stupid ... it increases...

Category: Anti-evolutionScience Education

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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Designs on Darwin

Category: Anti-evolutionHistory and Philosophy (often of Science)Intelligent Design

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

What philosophy do you follow?

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...

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Cute overload (for PZ)

Category: CarnivoresMammals

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

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Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)

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March 28, 2007

Everything you heard about the KT boundary is wrong

Category: EvolutionMammals

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...

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Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)

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March 27, 2007

"It should be a fight for intellectual freedom, not a fight for science against religion."

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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Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)

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March 26, 2007

Monday Mammal

Category: Mammals

Microcebus murinus - the mouse lemur  ...

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Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)

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March 25, 2007

Last Stand of the Orang Utan?

Category: Mammals

The Guardian is reporting that the Orang Utan "could be virtually extinct within five years after it was discovered that the animal's rainforest habitat is being destroyed even more rapidly than had been predicted." The UN's environment programme report, 'The...

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Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)

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March 24, 2007

Dembski: Telling lies for Jesus

Category: Anti-evolutionHistory and Philosophy (often of Science)In Their Own WordsIntelligent Design

Dembski seems to think Darwin was a racist when it came to the "careless, squalid, unaspiring" Irish. Pat Hayes points out Dembski's selective quotation of Darwin and John Wilkins applies the coup de grace. I hope these aren't the "research"...

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