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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.
Category: Anti-evolution
NCSE has announced that two remaining anti-evolution bills have died in committee: Alabama & Missouri. To recap the year: Mississippi - dead in committee Oklahoma - dead in committee Iowa - dead in committee New Mexico - dead in committee...
Posted by John Lynch at 9:30 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Anti-evolution
Back in December 2006 I referred to Francis Beckwith as an ID supporter. This resulted in he informing me that he "has never been much of fan [of] design arguments, ever [and that his] interest in the debate focuses on...
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Category: Anti-evolution
I spent this morning at a workshop for K-12 biology teachers. The workshop was organized by the School of Life Sciences here at ASU and gave some 20 students to interact with faculty regarding teaching evolution. My presentation was titled...
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Category: Anti-evolution
Mark Chu-Carroll has done it so that you don't have to ... read the Dembski & Marks paper that I mentioned a few days back. Shorter MC-C: "Same old rubbish." Read his full verdict here.Update (5/11): Dembski "responds" (and apparently...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:46 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Anti-evolution
In 2000, Baylor's Michael Polanyi Center (Dembski's pet project) hosted a conference title "The Nature of Nature: An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Role of Naturalism in Science". It now looks like the proceedings of the conference are finally appearing: Bruce...
Posted by John Lynch at 1:53 AM • 1 Comments •
Yet another defeat for the anti-evolutionists. NCSE is reporting that Florida's Senate Bill 2396 has died in committee. To recap: Mississippi - dead in committee Oklahoma - dead in committee Iowa - dead in committee New Mexico - dead in...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:57 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Anti-evolution
In the past I have argued that historians of science probably need to get more involved with the fight for good science education. Michael Barton has brought my attention to historian Abigail Lustig giving testimony before the Texas Board...
Posted by John Lynch at 11:53 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Anti-evolution
John West over at the DI moans: David Klinghoffer has a provocative essay commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado. Klinghoffer notes that Columbine killer Eric Harris was inspired in part by his fanatical devotion...
Posted by John Lynch at 2:30 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Anti-evolution
Today we celebrate Paul Nelson Day in honor of the five year anniversary of his theory of "ontogenic depth" and a promised exposition that has never appeared. Methods of celebration vary - PZ has in the past suggested that...
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Most readers probably have heard of Michael Egnor, the DI's pet neurosurgeon. Egnor has been harping on about what he perceives as the lack of utility of evolution - which he, of course, equates with "Darwinism" - in medicine since...
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