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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
Category: Anti-evolution • Science 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....
Posted by John Lynch at 10:38 PM • 3 Comments
Category: Anti-evolution • History 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)...
Posted by John Lynch at 10:18 PM • 4 Comments
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
Category: Carnivores • Mammals
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
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
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...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:15 PM • 6 Comments
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
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March 26, 2007
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
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...
Posted by John Lynch at 7:09 AM • 1 Comments
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
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March 24, 2007
Category: Anti-evolution • History and Philosophy (often of Science) • In Their Own Words • Intelligent 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"...
Posted by John Lynch at 9:46 PM • 2 Comments
