Liberal logic
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
See here. (HT to Errol)...
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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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February 28, 2009
Clash of the Titans: Plantinga & Dennett in Chicago
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Apparently Alvin Plantinga and Daniel Dennett debated a week ago at a meeting of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association. An anonymous individual live-blogged it somewhat hyperbolically (“The tension between the titans fills the room”) but the...
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February 27, 2009
Harunian omission
Category: Anti-evolution
I’m a little put out that Turkish anti-evolutionist Harun Yahya has never seen fit to send me a copy of his Atlas of Creation while other folks here at ASU have received one. I thought I was a bigger fish...
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Florida joins the pack
Category: Anti-evolution
NCSE is reporting that SB 2396 has been proposed in Florida. It will require "thorough presentation and critical analysis of the scientific theory of evolution." The bill is sponsored by Stephen R. Wise (R-District 5). Amazing how many of these...
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Friday Felid #9
Category: Friday Felid
Sand cat, Felis margarita Loche 1858. <source>...
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February 25, 2009
A tough question
Category: Carnivores
Zooborns asks us to ponder the question: “What’s cuter than a fennec fox?” As if there can be any reply. More photos over at Zooborns....
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February 23, 2009
Iowa faculty on the “Evolution Academic Freedom Act" (HF 183)
Category: Anti-evolution
There’s a petition and statement going around regarding HF 183 for Iowa academics to sign. The text reads: We, the undersigned members of institutions of higher learning in Iowa, urge our legislators to reject passage of "The Evolution Academic Freedom...
Posted by John Lynch at 1:36 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 22, 2009
Creationist credentialing redux
Category: Anti-evolution
Creationists have long used credentials to make their case for them. Demsbki has posted a link to a SSRN (i.e. grey literature) paper by Edward Sisson (who is an architect and lawyer) in which he “relates lessons learned not only...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:20 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 21, 2009
Good news for scientists studying Southwestern jaguars
Category: Carnivores
I've written before about efforts to study jaguar (Panthera onca) populations here in the desert southwest and Mexico, most recently to note that the Bush administration had declined to formulate a recovery plan for the species in the Southwest....
Posted by John Lynch at 5:42 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A day in the life …
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
I gave two talks yesterday. The first was at a luncheon for ASU’s chapter of Sigma Xi. A small crowd of largely retired scientists and engineers heard me give the same talk I gave in Norman last week. Naturally, given...
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