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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
New data on creationism in Britain. The, ahem, “highlights” 51% agree that "evolution alone is not enough to explain the complex structures of some living things, so the intervention of a designer is needed at key stages." 40% disagree. 32%...
Posted by John Lynch at 11:02 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anti-evolution
I’ve been picking on creationists for a number for years now, so it is somewhat strange for me to come out and offer one a gold star but, hey! Todd Wood, a YEC at Bryan College had had a paper...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:18 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
(source; click for larger version) So 60% of Republicans - versus 40% of Independents and 38% of Democrats - think that God created humans as is, 10,000 years ago. Let's get this clear - this isn't 60% accepting some...
Posted by John Lynch at 9:19 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Why to not engage in scientific peer review:
Posted by John Lynch at 3:00 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Some of the other SciBlings are doing it, so why not ... My compatibility with the current gaggle of presidential candidates: Kucinich (95) Gravel (90) Richardson (82) Edwards (81) Dodd (78) Clinton (74) Obama (72) Biden (72) Paul (61) McCain...
Posted by John Lynch at 6:18 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The 486 nominations for Open Laboratory 2007 have been whittled down to 53 and Bora has the complete listing of the entries that will appear in book form in time for the 2nd Science Blogging Conference. I’m happy to report...
Posted by John Lynch at 2:25 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
An English backpacker who stabbed a Scottish traveller to death during a row about creationism and evolution was sent to jail for five years by a judge in Australia. Alexander York, 33, from Essex, had become involved in a...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:52 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
One result from a Barna Group poll on biblical literalism: The Bible opens with the description of God creating the universe in six days. That report is accepted as literally true by 60% of the adult population. This passage brought...
Posted by John Lynch at 8:31 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
First we were "slime-snake-monkey-people". Now we’re "mutant randomites," and Johnson accuses us of name-calling! Mr Mote, meet Mr Eye. This just keeps getting better and better....
Posted by John Lynch at 12:12 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Young Earth Creationism
Creationist Robert Bowie Johnson Jr. has just published a book detailing Noah's role in Greek art as a known historical figure. Yeah, *that* Noah. Johnson says: "In Greek art, we find detailed, consistent portrayals of the early Genesis themes including:...
Posted by John Lynch at 1:30 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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