March 18th, 2009 Gumlegs
Senator Charles Shumer (D-NY), has never been known as an exemplar of logical thinking. Nevertheless, as Chairman of the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee, he must be taken seriously. The partial transcript below is of a November 2008 Schumer interview aired on Fox television. We address this now because the issue is not going away.
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March 10th, 2009 satchmodog
This Premise Media production begins with video of the Berlin wall being constructed to the cello and violin sounds of All Along the Watchtower. This song would have been perfect had it been used by the side of the evolutionist. All Along the Watchtower describes going against the establishment and that is really what Darwin and his followers went against for a century. Now, the ID frauds want to make the scientific community out to be the great evil that has stifled the truth. The truth has evolved because of Darwin and his ideas, not the other way around. The ID crowd also has to personally go after Darwin to destroy the man as well as the message like the nasty propagandists they really are.
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March 8th, 2009 Black Ops
WHEREIN ELMO ZONEBALL pulls no punches, and spares no feelings, in calling shenanigans on Barney Frank and the rest of the Democrats for their naked opportunism in the face of financial crisis…
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February 15th, 2009 Black Ops
SOME OF OUR CONSTANT READERS may not be familiar with the Darwin Central discussion forums, which is a shame - it’s where all the cool kids hang out. We’re open to all, and welcome those of a like mind. We believe you shouldn’t have to choose between self-styled conservatives who reject newfangled ideas like the scientific method, or scientists whose politics make Cynthia McKinney look like a mushy moderate. Here we strive for rationality in all things, both in the natural world and in human affairs.
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January 1st, 2009 Piltdown
The anti-evolution creationists often bristle at being characterized as “anti-science”. They are insulted. Why they aren’t “anti-science” at all. They’re just anti-“bad”-science. They support “good” science and have no problem with it, so they say. And they know the difference
We see these objections to being characterized as anti-science all of the time on one of the internet’s “premier” gathering places for anti-evolution creationists, Free Republic (FR). The Dishonesty… err, umm … the Discovery Institute, ICR, AiG, the discredited Dover School Board members, and the rest of the anti-evolution crowd aren’t much different. None of them are anti-science. How dare you say they are.
The fact is, their hatred of evolution, science, and anyone that challenges their attacks on Evolution is one of the only things that keeps them together. If not for that, they’d probably be calling each other idiots and morons while slitting each others throats, ripping each others hearts out, and condemning each other to eternal damnation. That’s why some anti-evolution forums need special rules for their religion sub-forum “discussions” and “debates”. LOL.
Each group of anti-evolution creationists attacks science in their own way for their own reasons. In some cases that should read “each individual anti-evolution creationist”. Most of them don’t agree with each other on many of their religious beliefs and superstitions and on what is and is not “good” science. The geocentrists, the YECs, the OECs, and the IDers are some of the obvious divisions, and there are many, many subdivisions — probably even more than there are Christian sects.
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October 10th, 2008 Central Archivist
In the realm of natural pharmacopeia, German researchers claim St. John’s Wort is as effective as Prozac in treating depression. This news must be a real downer for Eli Lilly…
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September 26th, 2008 Central Archivist
This week China prepared to put three “taikonauts” into orbit to perform a spacewalk. Evidently, the Chinese were so confident in the success of the mission they issued a press release that included dialog from the mission… before the launch actually took place. One might be tempted to make a quip about Chinese quality control, if it weren’t for the tragic scandal involving milk and milk products (including baby formula) unfolding in that country at the moment.
The New Zealanders who worried it was The End Of The World As We Know It got a temporary reprieve when CERN’s Large Hadron Collider suffered a helium leak this week, shutting down its operation until next Spring. Evidently, a quarter of the Kiwis surveyed were worried the LHC would create a planet-devouring micro black hole. No worries, mates. If a micro black hole was created (extremely unlikely), it would evaporate almost immediately.
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June 6th, 2008 Bones
On another website a creationist posted the following:
Students should be allowed to discuss and debate evolution in the classroom. That’s hardly possible when only one side is given. Besides, we’re not even talking about ID or Creationism here. We’re just talking about teaching evolutionary theory in a scientific manner. The whole story needs to be presented.
Only one side?
And which side is that? And which side is being omitted? This complaint really boils down to — the side that is taught is science, and the side that is omitted is religious belief. And not just any religious belief, but a fundamentalist belief in the inerrancy of the bible. That is the “side” that they want taught.
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May 16th, 2008 Central Archivist
It has come to our attention that Jim Robinson, the founder of Free Republic, has been hospitalized and has undergone extensive surgery. We here at Darwin Central wish him a full and speedy recovery and hope for the best for him in the future.
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April 9th, 2008 Central Archivist
Rush Limbaugh has managed to pretty much completely misunderstand science
once again, this time in reference to the Higgs Boson, or “god particle.”
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