April 28, 2008
Monday Mustelid #14
Category: Carnivores
Eurasian badger Meles meles L.Click for big version - they’re cute. Way cute...
Posted by John Lynch at 10:39 PM • 5 Comments
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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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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...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:59 AM • 0 Comments
April 26, 2008
Saturday Night / Sunday Morning
Category: Chatter
Electronic - "Get The Message" - 1991...
Posted by John Lynch at 11:59 PM • 0 Comments
Ben Stein and the Shoah
Category: Anti-evolution • Intelligent 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...
Posted by John Lynch at 11:44 PM • 0 Comments
Ben Stein gets what he deserves
Category: Anti-evolution • Humor • The Life Academic
Below the fold because it’s a 250k image. But it’s worth it....
Posted by John Lynch at 10:31 PM • 2 Comments
Atheism in the Army (and the Power of Plexiglass)
Category: Bits and Pieces • Politics
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,...
Posted by John Lynch at 9:02 PM • 1 Comments
It's Caturday!
Category: Bits and Pieces • The Life Academic
Via Skepchick...
Posted by John Lynch at 8:28 PM • 0 Comments
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...
Posted by John Lynch at 8:15 PM • 14 Comments
Friday Night / Saturday Morning
Category: Bits and Pieces
New Order - "True Faith" (1987)...
Posted by John Lynch at 2:02 AM • 4 Comments
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,...
Posted by John Lynch at 9:35 PM • 35 Comments
"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...
Posted by John Lynch at 4:09 PM • 10 Comments
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...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:44 PM • 17 Comments
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...
Posted by John Lynch at 1:18 AM • 0 Comments
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...
Posted by John Lynch at 2:05 AM • 1 Comments
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....
Posted by John Lynch at 1:35 AM • 3 Comments
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...
Posted by John Lynch at 11:56 AM • 17 Comments
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