An Open Letter to the Iowa State Legislature

There has been an antievolution bill introduced in my home state. Today, you are faced with a choice. In Iowa, we have always prided ourselves on our educational system. A bill currently in the legislature threatens to take that away. I am, of course referring to House File 183, the so-called academic freedom bill. These [...]

I’m not too happy with Graham Lawton of New Scientist right now…

see more pwn and owned pictures I’m not even going to pretend that I read everything what pops up in popular science. My exposure to pop-sci articles consists largely of stumbling into the Iowa State University bookstore and thumbing through the science magazines, usually after I look at the pretty women in fashion magazines. I’m [...]

Evolution of Tympanic Hearing Structures in Parasitoid Diptera

Google books is a wonderful thing. You can find pretty much anything on there, at least in part. Quite a bit of the stuff you’ll find is missing some pages, but it’s definitely enough to learn from…or at least find a title of something you’re looking for or interested in. Today’s example: Insect Hearing . [...]

Also, Creationists

more music charts But I think these two circles should be much further apart than they are.

I am living proof against Intelligent Design

Take a look at Casey Luskin’s diagram in his most recent post over at Evolution News and Views. Believe it or not, this diagram hits close to home to me. You see, the very fact that I’m alive is proof positive that this diagram fails the most basic test of irreducible complexity. I have a [...]

*Snicker* Kenn Hamm offers to make George Bush even dumber

So even Georgie boy doesn’t think the Bible’s literally true. Somewhat endearing to me, but everything the guy touches withers and dies…even (especially) his science policies. Still glad he’s going and still think it can’t come soon enough. But hey…in comes Kenn Hamm of AIG, right on cue: Well, if these statements by President George [...]

Rant Puppets for the Win!

They it right on the head…with a banana.

Rezpektez teh opinenz!!!1!!1!!!

Matt Nisbet made a post yesterday which I found interesting. As I understand his position, he’s essentially criticizing what he views as labeling the other side a debate as a means of argument. In theory, he’s right. However, it seems he’s never been here on the interwebs.

Dembski steps down

http://www.uncommondescent.com/adminstrative/change-at-ud/ I’m a bit late getting in on this, I know. Most of my pseudoscience reading happens when I’m not in school. It looks like Dembski’s stepping down from Uncommon Descent to ‘work on research’ on his so-called conservation of information thingy. Of course, Dembski’s so-called information conservation is simply non-sensical because it ignores the [...]

So I, uh…guess Ray Comfort wantez teh athyezts?

http://raycomfortfood.blogspot.com/2008/11/request-to-atheists.html Great…the guy who tried to disprove evolution by pointing to a fruit that’s been artificially bred over the course of a few thousand years is asking someone to write the foreward to his book which I’m oh-so certain will be nothing more than a butchering of basically every science you can think of. Fan-fucking [...]