If We Only Had Faith

May 26th, 2006 The Lone Beagle

BELIEF IN EVOLUTION is nothing but a religion!

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IDists say ‘Pass the Information’

May 24th, 2006 The Lone Beagle

INTELLIGENT DESIGN struggles. It struggles to identify designed artifacts. It struggles to break away from its existence as a simple attack on Evolution. It struggles to be a science. Despite the bravado in the words of assurance from various ID proponents, none of those struggles have been successful. This is somewhat surprising. What is surprising is not the utter failure of ID as a science but the manner in which that failure has transpired.

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God said it … or did He?

May 22nd, 2006 Central Archivist

CHURCHES IN THE SOUTH have a tradition of putting pithy, inspirational, or otherwise relevant sayings on their marquees in an effort to attract notice, and hopefully new members and visitors. A church about three-quarters of a mile from my house has sported a two-liner for the past couple of weeks: “God said it. I believe it.”

The first thing that crossed my mind when I saw this was, “but did God actually say it?”

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Limbaugh’s Comments Make Monkey of Conservatism

May 19th, 2006 Central Archivist

RUSH LIMBAUGH IS ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT when it comes to skewering the left and has a grasp of political reality that is second to none. His innate talent in this regard has catapulted him to being the de facto spokesperson for the conservative movement in this country.

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Where have all the flowers come from?

May 19th, 2006 Bones

“FLOWERING PLANTS are the most diverse group of plants ever to sit on the Earth,” says William Friedman of the University of Colorado at Boulder. But with no obvious evolutionary predecessors, where did they come from? And how did flowering plants get to be so different from “primitive” land plants, such as mosses, ferns and conifers? Tormented by the problem, Charles Darwin called it an “abominable mystery”.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025525.500-where-have-all-the-flowers-come-from.html

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Human And Chimp Genomes Reveal New Twist On Origin of Species

May 18th, 2006 Bones

THE EVOLUTIONARY SPLIT between human and chimpanzee is much more recent — and more complicated — than previously thought, according to a new study by scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and at Harvard Medical School published in the May 17 online edition of Nature.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060518075823.htm

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Another turn of the screw

May 17th, 2006 Black Ops

EVERY YEAR, the vise squeezing those creationists who cling to the notion that the Creator is hiding somewhere in the holes of science, lurking in the dark, unexplored recesses where only the faithful may tread, gets just a little bit tighter. Another hole closes, another gap is filled, and the box they hold their deity in gets just a bit more restrictive.

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We may not have Connie to kick around any more

May 15th, 2006 Black Ops

A preview of the upcoming electoral fireworks in Kansas, courtesy of the Hutchinson (KS) News. Well, we’re happy either way, kicking or not kicking…

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Always outnumbered, never outgunned

May 11th, 2006 Black Ops

BEING A CONSERVATIVE AND DEFENDING science and reason is sometimes a lonely affair. There are all too many people, otherwise fine conservatives, who lose all hope of rational thought when it comes to evolution and the development of the diversity of life on earth. Not that we expect it’s much better being a liberal — you don’t think that people who believe in magic healing crystals or channeling are voting for W, do you?

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Louie the Great Meets the Anti-Science Crowd

May 11th, 2006 PondScum

THE HISTORY OF MICROBIOLOGY begins with Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. This curious man designed and built simple microscopes and opened a whole new world to man. His discoveries went underground for 200 years with a few others revealing more of the unseen world, but with no major advances. Time was waiting. Then the time became ripe in the last half of the 19th century and on the stage stepped two great men, Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur.

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