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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, 2008
Category: Anti-evolution • Intelligent Design
The basic incompetence of the Expelled producers continues. This morning I received an e-mail telling me that the scheduled screening (7pm on April 3rd) as been re-scheduled for 6pm on that date. Where the incompetence of these boyos comes in...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:54 PM • 24 Comments
Category: Bits and Pieces
I don’t watch NBA basketball. I don’t watch NCAA basketball. I used to play basketball in high school and played club basketball in college (Ireland doesn’t have the same college scene as here). The reason why I don’t watch is...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:45 AM • 6 Comments
Category: Monday Mustelid
Lutrogale perspicillata Geoffroy, 1826[image source]...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:32 AM • 1 Comments
March 30, 2008
Category: Bits and Pieces • Humor
This made me laugh if only because I used to row back in Ireland: In Ireland, it is not uncommon for university rowing teams to cancel practice because there is a swan in the river. Rowing teams tend to be...
Posted by John Lynch at 7:02 AM • 11 Comments
March 29, 2008
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science) • Intelligent Design • Politics
Matt Nisbet has coughed up yet another post on PZ and framing. It begins: You don’t have to be a social scientist to recognize that the distribution of opinion among people who comment at Scienceblogs is very different from the...
Posted by John Lynch at 8:43 PM • 52 Comments
Category: Earth and Planetary Sciences
If you have problems with heights, this may not be the job for you. (via BackReaction)...
Posted by John Lynch at 7:08 PM • 3 Comments
Category: Anti-evolution • Human Evolution • Humor • Intelligent Design
Seed has been running an interview with the British author Will Self whom I first encountered by reading his wonderful Great Apes, the cover of which - a mash-up of a human and ape - is above. Every time...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:44 PM • 6 Comments
Category: Anti-evolution • History and Philosophy (often of Science) • Intelligent Design
If it wasn’t enough that PZ is wondering why Ben Stein doesn’t have it in for Newton (what with his clear connection to Nazism), Orac now wonders: The above principles for eliminating the Jew from Nazi territory are clearly those...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:25 PM • 0 Comments
Category: Anti-evolution • Intelligent Design
Troy Britain has done some poking around regarding the RSVP system that Expelled is using: I go through this to show that they apparently have a system (at least now) to distinguish between truly private screenings with, I would imagine,...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:45 PM • 3 Comments
Category: Anti-evolution • Humor • Intelligent Design
PZ linked to this earlier, but it’s just too good not to be posted here. Enjoy! One of PZ’s minions has transcribed the lyrics here....
Posted by John Lynch at 2:05 AM • 0 Comments
March 28, 2008
Category: Anti-evolution • Intelligent Design
Christianity Today has published a review of Behe’s The Edge of Evolution. The reviewer is Stephen Webb, a professor of religion and philosophy at Wabash College, and Jason Rosenhouse wonders: Why would a serious magazine like Christianity Today ask someone...
Posted by John Lynch at 8:04 PM • 0 Comments
Category: Anti-evolution
Well it makes as much sense at the Darwin/Hitler claptrap the cdesign proponentsists over at the Discovery Institute spout: How many have died due to the tyranny of the gravity Newton put into the hands of conscienceless materialist scientists? Examine...
Posted by John Lynch at 6:56 PM • 0 Comments
Category: Anti-evolution
Hilariously, Myers does it again and invades an Expelled event only to get expelled again. This time it was a conference call. There was some mad rustling and flustering about on the other side of the phone some complaints, etc.,...
Posted by John Lynch at 6:40 PM • 3 Comments
Category: Anti-evolution • In Their Own Words
Never one who is afraid to paint with a very broad brush, Ben Stein gives us this gem (from a Christianity Today interview): I believe God created the heavens and the earth, and it doesn’t scare me when scientists say...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:58 PM • 9 Comments
Category: Earth and Planetary Sciences
A report released today by the National Resources Defense Council and the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization shows that while the globe warmed by an average of one degree between 2003 and 2007, eleven western states warmed by 1.7 degrees...
Posted by John Lynch at 4:29 PM • 12 Comments
Category: Poetry
Finding the Tracks Along the river, under trees - jumbled tracks! Thick fragrant woods, is this the way? Though the ox wanders far in the hills, His nose touches the sky. He cannot hide. K’uo-an (trans. Stanley Lombardo) [image...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:34 PM • 0 Comments
