Casey Luskin, the Discovery Institute writer/lackey, thinks that a certain picture of Charles Darwin published in Nature last year reminds him of a certain special someone: … the back page of the packet shows a picture of a smiling young Darwin with animals flocking about him (lizards, birds, monkeys, flowers, sponges, turtles, etc.), much like the […]
Archive for the ‘Evolution’ Category
I go to a small semi-private school in Victoria, a Christian school, supposedly non-denominational. Every fortnight we have a compulsory chapel service that runs for 45mins. Today we had Dr. Mark Harwood of creation.com come and lecture us on how the world was created. The whole thing was utterly pathetic, for 4 main reasons: 1. Yes […]
So, I’m back to making YouTube videos about evolutionary biology and its misinformed critics after a long hiatus. This new one is all about Stephen C. Meyer, a Discovery Institute fellow who’s been the darling of the intelligent design movement after his most recent book, Signature in the Cell, was hyped to the Moon and […]
Imagine my shock when I found out that my blog was selected as one of ten finalists in National Science Week’s Big Blog Theory science blogging competition (well, if you can, that is — I’m not sure most people have the capacity to feel that amount of shock at any one time, and I wouldn’t want to […]
Cross posted from Homologous Legs The title of this post may be controversial, but I assure that I haven’t lost my mind… just yet. What I want to address is a point that needs to be addressed if the scientific community, especially the part of the community that communicates science to the public, is to […]
Cross posted from Homologous Legs 19th century biologist Ernst Haeckel’s embryo drawings remain one of evolutionary biology’s most controversial subjects, even more than 130 years after their original publication, least not due to the recent attempts by Discovery Institute fellows Casey Luskin and Jonathan Wells to bring the drawings back into the “discussion” about evolutionary biology […]
Cross-posted from Homologous Legs The NCSE, that wonderful US organisation that fights to keep evolutionary biology taught properly in American public schools, has, since 2009, been giving away excerpts from various books about evolution on Facebook and their homepage. Robert Luhn, the NCSE’s Director of Communications, recently emailed me (and a whole lot of other […]
To whom it may concern, As I am sure you are aware the draft for the new national curriculum has resulted in claims that creationism and intelligent design are going to be taught in ancient history classes. While these claims do seem alarmist, concern does arise when reading Unit 2a of the ancient history syllabus which under […]
