Casey Luskin, formerly of the IDEA club and now working for the Discovery Institute, has been busily blogging the Dover trial over the last couple weeks, posting responses to the testimony of the expert witnesses. Unfortunately for the DI, it's clear that he is just in way, way over his head here. Richard Hoppe already debunked his response to Rob Pennock's testimony about AVIDA, I've debunked his entry claiming that ID does not require a supernatural creator, and now Mike Dunford has taken aim at his absurd claims about Ken Miller's testimony regarding chromosomal fusing in humans and apes. And this one is a bullseye.
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I received the following e-mail from Larry Fafarman:
Ed,
It is easy for you and your pals to take cowardly potshots at me from the safety of your blog, where I am banned. So I am challenging you to either unban me on your blog or debate me on my blog.
As usual, the president's science adviser has been trotted out to explain away the administration's latest misbehavior with respect to climate science.
(NOTE ADDED 12/7/2010: Kim Tinkham has died of what was almost certainly metastatic breast cancer.)
Pat Hayes of Red State Rabble has written a nice post about Barbara Forrest that is partly a biographical sketch and partly an analysis of the sometimes ridiculously over the top reaction to her from