Tag Archives: Intelligent Design

Discovery Institute Discovers Irony

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But fails to recognize it. Again.Just moments ago, the Discovery Institute posted a commentary on a paper that came out some time ago on dog evolution. I wrote about that paper because it made me laugh out loud (LOL). Indeed, I wanted to share this again, so I reposted my earlier post just moments ago.The new DI post is by Casey Luskin. I’ve misplaced the URL, sorry. Anyway, it turns out that the Discovery Institute is pretty sure that Artificial Selection is Intelligent Design, with the breeders being the Intelligent Agent. Of course, they are correct. Intelligent Design is real. If you make it up.(LOL)

Jim Curtsinger on John West

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Egads!I was so excited about Mark Borrello’s editorial at the MNCSE site, that I totally overlooked This Editorial by MNCSE executive director Jim Curtsinger!This is bad, because it was Jim who told me about Mark’s editorial. What you have to understand is that Mark is a little guy. He’s pretty wiry and tough, so I wouldn’t want to scrap with him, but I could probably hold my own. Jim, on the other hand, is a big scary guy and would easily do serious damage if he got mad enough at me.OK, so there’s the link… Forgive me Jim.A taste of J.C.’s editorial:

Borrello’s analysis of West’s presentation is politely devastating. Nevertheless, I feel compelled to add a few comments, partly because I’m more blunt than Borrello, and also because I have a personal stake. Just a couple of weeks before Dr. West’s visit to Minnesota I gave a lecture on the eugenics movement to a large undergraduate biology class. One of my main points was that evolutionary genetics played a crucial role in demonstrating on scientific grounds that negative eugenics, the nasty forced-sterilization part of eugenics, could not work as intended.

Mark Borrello on John West

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i-29463c3df3776542ed742f45ce2b8db1-ex_061107_markborello.jpgYou will remember our blogospheric reactions to John West’s talk at UMN (John West can Play the Violin But Not the Fiddle on my blog, and John West at the McLaurin Institute on Pharyngula for Scienceblogs.com, as well as In Which I Meet John West at Tangled Up in Blue Guy and here at Amused Muse).

Well, the brilliant and tenaceous Mark Borrello, a key operative with the Minnesota Citizens for Science Education, has written an excellent editorial on the topic on the MnCSE site, entitled Dancing with the Disco Institute.

Debate Emerging on Origin of Giant’s Causeway

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i-8f7d99cd25a7a22978dff75f7f5fab18-giantscauseway.jpgThe rock formation depicted here is believed to have been built by the giant Fin McCool (a.k.a. Fionn Mac Cumhaill) as a causeway to Scotland allowing the giant Benandonner to cross over so the two could engage in a competition of strength. However, a newly formed group called the “Causeway Creation Committee” now asserts that the rock formation is the result of the Noachian Flood.From the Causeway Creation Committee’s web site: Continue reading Debate Emerging on Origin of Giant’s Causeway →

Ohio School District: WTF????

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This is an amazing story, and unfortunately, it is probably being repeated again and again across the country. It begins with a parent who does not want his daugther exposed to science, which is pretty common, but leads to a startling revelation about the local school board. Startling, but I’m afraid, probably not at all uncommon either. Continue reading Ohio School District: WTF???? →