Quote of the day:
Debating with creationists is like playing chess with a pigeon, no
matter how well you set up the rules the creationist will fly in knock
over all the pieces, cluck a great deal, crap all over the board, and
fly off claiming victory. Keith Sader over [...]
I’m currently in New Caledonia, at the 7th International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics, so can be considered away from keyboard (et sur la plage!), but here’s a few bullet-points to tide you over.
The biologists are still managing to poke holes in creationut Behe’s new book, Jerry Coyne goes another round, as well as [...]
Sean Carroll reviews the latest insult to intelligence from Michael Behe, The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism
The continuing futile attacks by evolution’s opponents reminds me of another legendary confrontation, that between Arthur and the Black Knight in the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The Black Knight, like [...]
Jerry Coyne in Edge:
Suppose we asked a group of Presidential candidates if they believed in the existence of atoms, and a third of them said “no”? That would be a truly appalling show of scientific illiteracy, would it not? And all the more shocking coming from those who aspire to run a technologically sophisticated [...]
Everything about the Triassic period points to divine involvement. Let me ask you this: Could some kind of random genetic chance make the population of shelled cephalopods grow significantly? No, of course not. So the only logical explanation is that there was an infinite and all-knowing cephalopod creator who modified their mollusk foot into [...]
