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• The Scientific Case Against Powered Flight

  
  The Sensuous Curmudgeon — Authority: 521
  Icarus and Daedalus ONCE again, dear reader, we beg you to indulge your Curmudgeon as we engage in a bit of parody. Having observed the chicanery of creationists, we have learned that their style of argument can be applied to virtually anything. Behold, our refutation of the theory of powered flight — Flightism ...
  4 hours ago

• The Stupid-Driven Life — Part V

  
  The Sensuous Curmudgeon — Authority: 521
  THIS is the latest in our “Stupid Driven” series, in which we offer disconnected observations we’ve made while reporting on The Controversy between evolution and creationism. These are sometimes taken from our earlier articles, but all of them were inspired by reading and analyzing the “work” of ...
  15 hours ago

• Darwin vs Dickens

  
  Vital Signs — Authority: 145
  Gina Dalfonzo has an enlightening and thoroughly enjoyable essay here on the Breakpoint website contrasting the widely disparate ideas of two famous writers who both have celebrated anniversaries this past year, Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin. It is really a great read -- and one that doesnt necessarily require ...
  19 hours ago

• Discovery Institute: Frenzy in Seattle!

  
  The Sensuous Curmudgeon — Authority: 521
  WHAT in the world is going on with the neo-theocrats at the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture (a/k/a the Discoveroids)? Look at their recent blog activity: On 27 November they added 2 blog posts. Typical activity. On 28 November they posted 3 items. Still not remarkable. But then … On ...
  23 hours ago

• Review of the Meyer-Sternberg vs Shermer-Prothero debate

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 424
  This review was e-mailed to me by a friend who attended the debate. I’ve posted it anonymously below. Recall that two pieces of evidence were up for debate on Monday night: 1) the origin of life and 2) the origin of diverse body plans. The ID advocates had to argue that only intelligent causes can account for new ...
  1 day ago

• The ‘Podium Grabbers’: Winners Who Have Medaled With Biology

  
  Uncommon Descent — Authority: 614
  As many of us commence our holiday festivities toasting the year’s end while earnestly drawing up personal lists of events that have shaped our lives, I would like to take a brief look at three achievements in the biological sciences- two historical and one more recent- that have struck me as nothing short of ...
  1 day ago

• Judge Jones in Bloomington, Indiana

  
  Exploring Our Matrix — Authority: 576
  I received an e-mail from the NCSE about an event that is just a few days away: I thought that you might like to know, albeit at short notice, that Judge John E. Jones III, who presided over the Kitzmiller v. Dover case in 2005, will be speaking on judicial independence at 4:00 p.m. on December 4 at in the ...
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• New Atheism vs. Intelligent Design Watch: Atheist Philosopher, Thomas Nagel, Recommends Stephen Meyer’s “Signature in the Cell” (2009), and Atheist Jerry Coyne Doesn’t Like Nagel’s Favorable Review One Bit

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 143
  I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that atheist  Thomas Nagel  is one of the most respected academic philosophers in the world. I think it’s also fair to say that atheist Jerry Coyne, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago, is also a highly respected academic.  But here comes the ...
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• Battle in Beverly Hills: Reflections on the Prothero/Shermer vs. Meyer/Sternberg "debate," Nov. 30, 2009

  
  The Panda's Thumb — Authority: 468
  By Don Prothero http://faculty.oxy.edu/prothero/index.htm Don Prothero is a paleontologist and Professor of Geology at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and Lecturer in Geobiology at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, and author of Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters , in my ...
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• Truth and Science

  
  Uncommon Descent — Authority: 614
  It is almost axiomatic in our culture that the pronouncements of Science are synonymous with Truth. This received wisdom is so prevalent that whenever media reports begin with the words “Scientists have found that…[fill in the blank]“, whatever follows is widely believed by the public to be unassailable fact. ...
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• [Off Topic] The Shack, a Review

  
  Uncommon Descent — Authority: 614
  The Shack by William P. Young is an unlikely publishing phenomenon.  The book was first conceived as a private gift to the author’s children and a few friends.  Young’s friends were so thrilled with the manuscript they encouraged him to find a publisher, but after several publishers rejected the book, Young and ...
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• Another ClimateGate — Creationism Coupling

  
  The Sensuous Curmudgeon — Authority: 521
  It’s getting strange out there. In the Washington Examiner , which Wikipedia says is “a free daily newspaper published in Springfield, Virginia, and distributed around Washington, D.C. and its suburbs,” we read Keeping the lid on – and the science out . It’s a column by Barbara Hollingsworth, ...
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• Tenth place is apparently worthy of a medal to the Discovery Institute

  
  Homologous Legs — Authority: 119
  I mentioned this on Homologous Legs Mini a couple of weeks ago, but I’ve been super-busy recently, so I never got around to fleshing this story out a little bit on the main blog. Signature in the Cell : DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design is a book that some of you may be familiar with – I’ve ...
  2 days ago

• Explaining Evolutionary Complexity In The Form of Haiku

  
  Kelosophy — Authority: 120
  The basic principleComplexity thatAids the survival of genesIs passed to offspringA mechanismGene duplicationIncreases the size of theGenetic codes lengthThe genes for smellingAre dupes of a single geneAiding survivalNo free lunchAn environmentWhere theres an unused resourceCan be exploitedTo digest nylonThe bacteria ...
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• Stupid Creationist Arguments 6: Evolution makes you immoral!!!111!!111ONEONE

  
  Lone Wolfs Den — Authority: 112
  There are three basic claims to this stupid argument. 1: Evolution says people are animals and that will make people act like animals. 2: Evolution teaches social darwinism and eugenics. 3: Evolution devalues human life.1: Acting like animals. Well what do animals act like? And which animals? Different species act ...
  2 days ago

• Creationist Wisdom — Example 88: Cows & Trees

  
  The Sensuous Curmudgeon — Authority: 521
  WE present to you, dear reader, a letter-to-the-editor titled Buhl Cummings: Are cows and trees related? , which appears in the Athens Banner-Herald of Athens, Georgia . That’s a college town, home to the University of Georgia . Athens is also home to Athens Christian School , and as their About Us page ...
  3 days ago

• The Fruitlessness of ID "Research"

  
  The Panda's Thumb — Authority: 468
  Scientists point out, quite rightly, that the religio-political charade known as “intelligent design” (ID) is not good science. But how do we know this? One of the hallmarks of science is that it is fruitful . A good scientific paper will usually lead to much work along the same lines, work that confirms and ...
  3 days ago

• New Atheistland Watch: Bryan Appleyard Owns PZ Myers—Again!

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 143
  I love Bryan Appleyard’s eloquent retorts to the blistering rhetoric coming out of New Atheistland. Here’s Appleyard today on PZ Myers’s scientism: [M]ention intelligent design and the likes of Myers will be hurling abuse. But I gather from reading John Gribbin’s superb exposition In Search of the ...
  3 days ago

• Discovery Institute: ClimateGate Obsession Continues

  
  The Sensuous Curmudgeon — Authority: 521
  THE email imbroglio known as ClimateGate appears to have literally unhinged the neo-theocrats at the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture (a/k/a the Discoveroids). At their blog they now have this article posted: Wesley Smith on “The New Inquisition: Ideology’s Corruption of Science” . ...
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• Climategate to be followed by Evolutiongate?

  
  Athanatos Christian Apologetics Ministry — Authority: 124
  From divulged emails regarding ‘global warming’ and ‘climate change’, ie, Climategate : “I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report,” Jones writes. “Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!” In another, Jones ...
  3 days ago

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