TagsTagsAt New Scientist, Lawrence Krauss looks at another attempt by the Discovery Institute to push “intelligent design” pseudo-science into classrooms, this time in Texas: Commentary: Stop creationists undermining school science. The most recent and blatant example of the sorry condition of state education boards comes from Texas, whose education board ...
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Here’s another excellent resource for people trying to make sense of the conflicting claims and counter-claims of the anti-evolutionists: An Index to Creationist Claims. Creationist claims are numerous and varied, so it is often difficult to track down information on any given claim. Plus, creationists constantly come up with new ...
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This is important background information on the Discovery Institute, the main hub of the repackaged creationism that’s been dubbed “intelligent design.” The Wedge Strategy is an internal Discovery Institute memo never intended to be released to the public, that was leaked to the Internet in 1999. It spells out their ...
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Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has signed a stealth creationist bill into law, and American educational standards take a huge step backward: Science law could set tone for Jindal. The creationist front group called the Discovery Institute is quietly crowing, and maintaining the fiction that the bill is not religiously-based. At the ...
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I was actually searching for something related to a Linux programming trick, when I stumbled on this interesting article (from 10 years ago but sadly still relevant) by University of Chicago Professor Jerry Coyne about the deceptive tactics employed by Discovery Institute advocate Michael Behe: Boston Review: Is Darwin in ...
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New fossil discoveries by paleontologist Per Ahlberg are filling in more of the gaps in our knowledge of the transition from sea creatures to land-dwelling vertebrates: Fossil Helps Document Shift From Sea To Land. New fossils of an ancient, four-limbed creature help fill in the blanks of the evolutionary transition ...
An extraordinary fossil discovery in Australia reveals a fish with live offspring attached by an umbilical cord—dating to 380 million years ago, making it the oldest example of vertebrate live birth on record. Scientists at the Museum of Victoria have dubbed her Materpiscis attenboroughi, or “mother fish.” Here’s the Museum Victoria ...
The Bureau of Land Management in Utah has announced the discovery of a major new cache of very well-preserved dinosaur bones dating back to 4,400 years ago. Oops! Did I say “4,400?” That was just a guess. The real age is closer to 150 million years old. SALT LAKE CITY — ...
Carl Zimmer has a fascinating post at The Loom (part of the ScienceBlogs network), with more details on that 20-year experiment in evolution conducted by Richard Lenski at Michigan State University: A New Step In Evolution. Based on what scientists already knew about evolution, Lenski expected that the bacteria would ...
In an experiment that has been underway for 20 years at Michigan State University, biologist Richard Lenski has actually observed evolution at work in E. Coli bacteria. A major evolutionary innovation has unfurled right in front of researchers’ eyes. It’s the first time evolution has been caught in the act ...
At The Corner, here’s John Derbyshire on Bobby Jindal’s support of the intelligent design hoax. As a Republican living in a liberal neighborhood, I spend a lot of time defending the GOP against sneers about us being (as one of my friends puts it) “the snake-handling party.” Bobby Jindal sure ...
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Judging from the loony leftists in his blogroll, Joshua Rosenau will be a bit surprised to see referrals from LGF. But this is an important update to yesterday’s post about Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal’s support for the “intelligent design” hoax, as Jindal’s college genetics professor asks him not to “hold ...
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He tries to dance around the issue to avoid offending either side, but it’s clear that Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal favors the teaching of “intelligent design” in science classrooms. Thanks to Allahpundit for letting me steal his video clip; his comment is also on the mark: The politics of this ...
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Ben Stein’s contention that Darwinian evolution led directly to the Nazi Holocaust is destroyed by genetic science. The theory of Scandinavian racial purity cherished by Hitler and the Nazis has been rubbished by new scientific research. The study found that bodies from 2000-year-old burial sites in eastern Denmark contained “as much ...
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Here’s a fascinating presentation at Case Western University on evolution and intelligent design by renowned biologist Ken Miller, dealing with many of the arguments of ID proponents (for example, Michael Behe’s “irreducible complexity”). It’s almost two hours long, but well worth watching if you’d like to get deeper into the ...
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Did you know that lizards have evolved to write poetry? From LGF reader Winslow: Who Knows? ’Twas once upon the internet I chanced upon an argument; A blog appeared to splinter into internecine wars. ’Twas all precipitated by a movie dedicated to Portraying Darwinism as a truth-suppressing force. A thousand comments did ...
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Six Things in Expelled That Ben Stein Doesn’t Want You to Know... In the film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, narrator Ben Stein poses as a “rebel” willing to stand up to the scientific establishment in defense of freedom and honest, open discussion of controversial ideas like intelligent design (ID). But ...
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Sorry, Ben; I agree with you on a lot of things, but with this intelligent design detour you’ve gone completely off the rails. In an interview with the Trinity Broadcasting Network, Ben Stein said the following amazing thing in an interview with Paul Crouch, Jr. Stein: When we just saw ...
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I don’t always agree with the Anti-Defamation League, but I do in this case: Anti-Evolution Film Misappropriates the Holocaust. New York, NY, April 29, 2008 ... The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today issued the following statement regarding the controversial film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. The film Expelled: No Intelligence ...
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A tiny island in the Adriatic Sea is the home of some rather amazing lizards. Italian wall lizards introduced to a tiny island off the coast of Croatia are evolving in ways that would normally take millions of years to play out, new research shows. In 1971, scientists transplanted five adult ...
The National Center for Science Education is not amused by Ben Stein’s anti-evolution film Expelled, and they’ve devoted a web site to debunking what they say are the film’s dishonest claims: Expelled Exposed.
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I know I’ve probably posted this one before but I dig the song. Plus, it has babes go-go dancing in bikinis, gorilla suits, Elvis Costello, Darwinian evolution, and a righteous party groove. What more can you ask from one piece of music? Did I mention the babes? [Video]
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Didn’t anyone ever tell Allahpundit that to mention evolution is to risk the dreaded escalating comment swarm? Video: Pelosi’s daughter covers creationism. “Creationism?” I believe the term currently in favor is “intelligent design.” I don’t know about “intelligent design,” but I think there’s plenty of evidence for “stupid design.” And I’ll take any ...
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