Dembski Offers Money Again
You’d think that ol’ Billy Dembski would learn to stop making these monetary offers and bets; they seem to backfire on him every time or turn out to be pointless. Remember when he offered cash for...
View ArticleDover the Sequel?
It appears that we may be set to begin principal shooting on Dover: The Sequel, this time in Virginia. There has been some uproar in the Chesterfield County School District lately, where the school...
View ArticleMatzke Blows a Hole in Behe’s New Book
Michael Behe’s new book The Edge of Evolution is now out and being heavily promoted by the Discovery Institute. I’m sure it will come as no surprise to my readers to hear that lots of us involved in...
View ArticleMyers Shreds Luskin on Haeckel
I missed this post the other day, but it’s worth a look. PZ Myers does a great job of dismantling Casey Luskin’s continued distortions about Haeckel’s embryo pictures in modern textbooks. The DI has...
View ArticleExaptation vs Front Loading: Why Evolution Wins
There’s a very interesting post on the Newsweek blog by science journalist Sharon Begley about the existence of genes for synapses in the sea sponge, which has no need for such structures. Begley is...
View ArticleRick Sternberg: Not an ID Advocate (Wink, Wink)
When the controversy over Richard Sternberg and the publication of the now-infamous Meyer paper broke, we heard quite often that Sternberg was not an ID advocate, merely an open-minded scientist...
View ArticleID and Junk DNA, Part 2
The ID crowd has been all abuzz lately over junk DNA after a very bad article in Wired appeared on the subject. Whenever there is an article in the scientific literature proposing a possible function...
View ArticleCrowther’s Lies on Origin of Intelligent Design
The DI is engaged in their usual dishonest spin, this time over the issue of the origin of the ID movement. They’re responding to this post by Nick Matzke at the Panda’s Thumb where he points out that...
View ArticlePhase 4 of the Anti-Evolution Movement Begins
The Texas State Board of Education has long been a key battleground in the evolution/creationism controversy and the Discovery Institute and their allies have long advised the board on how to handle...
View ArticleA Christmas Bonus
- guest-blogged by W. Kevin Vicklund Despite some people begging for coal, I just didn’t feel right without doing something like a real fisking. So I thought I’d write a little about some recent papers...
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