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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.
March 31, 2009
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Sadly, to the DI, this is what counts as the utterance of a "serious scholar who knows what he's saying:" Evolutionary theory is at odds with itself: It cannot accept that man is a special being, raised above all others...
Posted by John Lynch at 8:57 PM • 11 Comments •
March 30, 2009
Matt Taibbi on Jake DeSantis' narcissism: Only a person with a habitually overinflated sense of self-worth could think he deserves a $700,000 retention bonus, even if it has to be paid by taxpayers, when in reality no one "deserves" that...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:22 AM • 2 Comments •
March 29, 2009
Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares For Me...
Posted by John Lynch at 10:14 PM • •
Category: Intelligent Design
SkeptiCamp Phoenix 2009 went off wonderfully yesterday. Big thanks to Jim Lippard for doing such a wonderful organizational job. The picture above is me beginning my 20 minute gallop through the issue of academic freedom and the intelligent design...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:27 PM • 2 Comments •
March 28, 2009
SkeptiCamp Phoenix beings in a few minutes. Jim Lippard has all the details and Magic Tony, one of the presenters, will be live-blogging the event, and there may also be twittering at #skepticamp. I'll be adding bits and pieces as...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:26 PM • •
March 27, 2009
Asian small-clawed otter pups @ San Diego Zoo. More here....
Posted by John Lynch at 2:51 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Friday Felid
Geoffroy's cat, Leopardus geoffroyi d'Orbigny & Gervais 1844 (source)...
Posted by John Lynch at 7:46 AM • •
March 25, 2009
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
The following was posted to the mailing list for the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) by Dick Burian. I felt it worth reposting here. Marjorie Grene passed away March 16 at age 98...
Posted by John Lynch at 1:59 AM • 2 Comments •
March 23, 2009
Category: Anti-evolution
NCSE is reporting that the Supreme Court has today denied certiorari without comment to Caldwell v. Caldwell, which challenged the constitutionality of the Understanding Evolution website. It's yet another setback for the DI who supported Caldwell. Let's just blame those...
Posted by John Lynch at 6:24 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Or at least it did in Darwin's day. See here. "Thanks to the discovery, historians now have the exact date of Darwin's arrival at the university - January 26th, 1828 - as well as a huge assortment of details which...
Posted by John Lynch at 4:52 PM • 2 Comments •
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