I got back from the Evolution Meeting late last night. The first thing on my docket was clearing flies so I could collect virgins this morning. The rest of this week will be spent getting myself back up to speed. I had some fruitful discussions at the meeting, attended some interesting talks, and met some cool people. I even got to talk to a couple other ScienceBloggers (Mike and Carl). Also the Kitzmiller session was quite good -- and an excellent respite from the heavy science stuff in all the other session. If your brain's been working hard thinking about science, creationism is the best form of rest. I'll have more to say about the meeting in subsequent posts.
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