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.

The Beauty of the Interweb: Ken Miller Demolishes Casey Luskin

Casey Luskin posts on the Discovery Institute’s blog Evolution News and Views. He’s always got something vacuous to say. Earlier this week, he posted that a bicyle was irreducibly complex. I like to explain the “irreducible core” using the analogy of a bicycle: A bicycle has an irreducible core that requires a frame, two wheels, [...]

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 [...]