A Response to Joseph Kuhn’s Dissecting Darwinism

I was alerted to creationist article published in the Proceedings of the Baylor University Medical Center via Why Evolution Is True. The author of the paper is Joseph Kuhn, MD who claims that “…surgeons are uniquely capable of gathering information, making observations, and reaching conclusions about scientific discoveries.” For the most part it is your [...]

Can I Get a Design Inference?

Intelligent design advocates are fond of trying to claim archaeology is a fellow design science – basically the part of archaeology that deals with identifying whether an item is an artifact (and hence designed) or a product of natural processes. The rest of archaeology – the part where archaeologists use the patterned distribution of artifacts [...]

Count The Wrong! Nelson and Ontogenetic Depth

Looks like we won’t have Paul Nelson to kick around anymore! He seems to be trying to make good on his promise to provide details on ontogenetic depth. I know, I’m shocked too, but, well, there it is. Says Paul: Rather, building animals de novo by known biological (evolutionary) processes is an evolutionary problem. Common [...]

Stupid Intelligent Design Comments Of The Week

It all started at Uncommon Descent, on a thread about Biologos and their criticism of Signature in the Cell. Vmartin starts the stupidity: Ayale published at Biologos another speculations. One of his attacks against ID was this emotive one (”On Reading the Cell’s Signature” Jan 7): “The birth canal is too narrow for the head [...]

Luskin on National Geographics Website? Why?

National Geographic has an Intelligent Design vs. Evolution feature that gives some time to Casey Luskin. One has to wonder why. To their credit National Geographic counters Luskin with Don Prothero. An example, in talking about the evolution of whales we get this nonsensical argument from Luskin:

Creationist Quote of the Week: A Face-Palm/Head-Desk Moment

I can’t resist mentioning this. Over at the James Randi Educational Foundation Forum a commenter named wowbagger compiles a list of questions for intelligent design advocates. Question 2G reads: If I were to claim that the “deducing of an Intelligent Designer” was nothing more than a type of paredolia phenomenon, how could you demonstrate otherwise?

Cornelius Hunter: Intellectually Dishonest? Or Uninquisitive? Or Both?

Cornelius Hunter has a post up at his blog bashing evolution in connection with a recent paper on the evolution of Water Striders. It seems Hunter is upset because the research indicates that: As usual the story is more complicated than evolution would have it. A regulatory gene that helps in the development of the [...]

Discovery Institute Propaganda Ruins AP Report on Wallace

PhysOrg.Com has an interesting article by AP environmental reporter Michael Casey. The article, ostensibly about George Beccaloni’s quest to “return Wallace to what he sees as his rightful place in history.” The article recounts Beccaloni’s project to retrace Wallace’s trip through southeast Asia. An interesting moment in the article comes at the beginning when Beccaloni [...]

Discovery Institute’s YouTube Copyright Infringement Claim

The Discovery Institute has filed a copy right infringement claim against this video:

Chimps, Dogs, Or Ants: Which is a Better Model For Human Sociality

Over at UD Denyse O’Leary is all twitterpated over this news story. The news item concerns a paper accepted for publication in the journal Advances in the Study of Behavior. The paper hasn’t been published yet, so we are dependent on MSNBC for details: Lead author Jozsef Topal explained to Discovery News “that shared environment [...]

Stupid Creationist Quote Of The Day

This one comes to us courtesy of Casey Luskin at Evolution News and Views. In a post discussing the NCSE’s views on the supernatural Casey says: Eugenie Scott better reign in her staff members or the NCSE will not only lose its religion-friendly image–it may land some school districts or state boards of education in [...]

Nooooooooo! DaveScot Has Been Banned From Uncommon Descent

It’s the Apocalypse! Dogs and cats are living in sin and everything! Run for your lives! After post after post smearing Darwin DaveScot cried foul: Since we now seem to be focused on racism instead of design detection and my motto is “When in Rome do as the Romans do” in order to balance the [...]

An Open Letter To Casey Luskin From a Hominoid

I have received the following email to forward to Casey Luskin.

Denyse O’Leary’s “Friend” Visits Lucy

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our australopithecine dead. – from the Australopithecine version of Henry V Over at UD Denyse mentions a friend who visited Lucy. The friend was not impressed.

Casey Luskin Visits Lucy

I always get a great deal of amusement when Luskin writes about paleoanthropology.His latest effort is no exception. Casey, you see, has been studying about Lucy and of fossils pertaining to human evolution for years, and even links to the dreck he published in ISCID as proof, so of course he had to go. Before [...]