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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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April 28, 2008

Monday Mustelid #14

Category: Carnivores

Eurasian badger Meles meles L.Click for big version - they’re cute. Way cute...

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Eugenics: It's not just for Darwinists anymore.

Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)

With much time being now spent by ID supporters on the Darwin/Eugenics meme (as opposed to any actual research), it is worth while revisiting this essay by Dennis Durst which discusses the engagement evangelicals had with eugenics between 1900 and...

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April 26, 2008

Saturday Night / Sunday Morning

Category: Chatter

Electronic - "Get The Message" - 1991...

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Ben Stein and the Shoah

Category: Anti-evolutionIntelligent Design

From Evolved and Rational: You only start to feel insulted when Ben Stein decides that the Holocaust is his "personal" reason for "investigating" evolution, and trust me, you feel really insulted. No, Ben Stein, your movie is not a personal...

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Ben Stein gets what he deserves

Category: Anti-evolutionHumorThe Life Academic

Below the fold because it’s a 250k image. But it’s worth it....

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Atheism in the Army (and the Power of Plexiglass)

Category: Bits and PiecesPolitics

I ran across this story covering Jeremy Hall’s case (PZ comments) and just want to quote the following: [Hall’s atheism] eventually came out in Iraq in 2007, when he was in a firefight. Hall was a gunner on a Humvee,...

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It's Caturday!

Category: Bits and PiecesThe Life Academic

Via Skepchick...

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LGBT people in science

Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)The Life Academic

Onias raises an interesting question (to which I have no answer) in another thread, namely: I was wondering if any of you folks at science blogs can discuss the issue of LGBT people in science. Apart from Jim Pollack, Alan...

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Friday Night / Saturday Morning

Category: Bits and Pieces

New Order - "True Faith" (1987)...

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April 25, 2008

Slow day: Another book list

Category: Books

Via BikeMonkey I see that DrugMonkey had a "106 Books of Pretension" meme going last October. Namely, "the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users." So here we go - what I’ve read is in italics,...

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"Darwinist" seen at Neo-Nazi conference

Category: Politics

According to Expelled, this guy must be some kind of "Darwinist," right? He’s Tony Zirkle and he’s seeking the Republican nomination for Congress in Indiana. Above he is addressing a bunch of like-minded individuals - at a birthday celebration...

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Cult Fiction

Category: Books

The Telegraph has a list up of the top fifty "best cult books," a category they describe as: the sort of book that people wear like a leather jacket or carry around like a totem. The book that rewires your...

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Friday Poem (0425)

Category: Poetry

Riding the Ox Home Riding the ox home, taking it easy, The flute’s notes vanish in the evening haze. Tapping time to a folk song, happy as can be - It’s all too much for words. K’uo-an (trans. Stanley...

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April 22, 2008

Steve Matheson on Darwin/Hitler

Category: Humanities & Social Science

Steve Matheson (a Reformed Christian biologist at Calvin College and occasional commenter here) has this to say about the Darwin/Hitler meme that is popular with the Expelled set: If you’re a Christian who thinks that the Nazis are a useful...

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A favorite quote

Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)

I want to share one of my favorite quotes ever from an historian of science: George Sarton writing in his magisterial (and sadly unfinished) A History of Science: The influence of Timaeus upon later times was enormous and essentially evil....

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April 21, 2008

To the fifty people that saw Expelled at 4pm yesterday ...

Category: Anti-evolution

So maybe I'm missing something but ... Expelled took in $3 million over the weekend. With over 1000 theaters and three days, that comes to ~$1000 per theater per day. At approximately $5 a ticket, that means we're looking at...

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