August 21st, 2006 Black Ops
IS THERE ANYONE WHO DOESN’T have a finger in this pie? This half-baked Hitler-Darwin concoction, that is. First it was Harun Yahya, now Coral Ridge Ministries is following in the footsteps of their apparent ideological soulmates, with their own production of…well, exactly the same thing. Okay, maybe it’s not so obvious with that short blurb, but bear with us.
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August 18th, 2006 Black Ops
WHILE DARWIN CENTRAL has usually concerned itself with the bloviations of politicians who say silly and stupid things about science, we should stop and note that this is, in fact, very much a two-way street. You don’t have to look very hard to find scientists saying silly and stupid things about political matters — hell, you’ve got a 50-50 shot with any random Pharyngula post — but today we at least have something fresh.
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August 14th, 2006 Central Archivist
RUSH LIMBAUGH (HERE WE GO AGAIN) is a brilliant political commentator, but really should keep his mouth shut when it comes to matters science. Read the rest of this entry »
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August 7th, 2006 Central Archivist
WE VETERANS OF THE CREVO WARS often hear creationists triumphantly crow, “evolution is just a theory; it’s never been proved!” Well, it’s true evolution has never been proved — indeed, nothing in science is ever proved. Proof is something that can only be found in the realms of mathematics. And, even then, proof might equal “True” but it doesn’t necessarily equal “Correct.”
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August 7th, 2006 Black Ops
WE TRUST THAT OUR READERS are familiar with the basic informal logical fallacies. Our occasional favorite is the argument ad verecundiam, or as it’s often translated, the appeal to authority. This is, of course, not an entirely correct rendering of the fallacy — a more correct label would be the appeal to inappropriate authority.
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July 17th, 2006 Bones
THIS IS THE SECOND OF A CONTINUING SERIES examining what is being passed off as science on creationist websites.
The topic of this essay is “baraminology,” as discussed in the article Baraminology–Classification of Created Organisms, by Wayne Frair, which appeared in the Creation Research Society Quarterly Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 82-91 (2000), and appears on the christiananswers.net website.
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July 11th, 2006 Central Archivist
RUSH LIMBAUGH DEVOTED HIS JULY 11 “Morning Minute” to an attack on Rachel Carson and her 1962 book, Silent Spring. According to Limbaugh, Carson is responsible for more human death and misery than Stalin or Mao, claiming that the environmental backlash generated by her book led to the banning of DDT, which until then had been used to eradicate Malaria-bearing mosquitoes. Malaria, Limbaugh claimed, now infects upward of 400 million people every year, and claims some 2 million souls each year (a death rate of 500 per 100,000 — or about 0.5% of those infected).
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July 6th, 2006 Long Cut
COMMONLY, IN THE UNENDING Creo-Evo debates, we are confronted with those who (when they’re not denying that any evidence for evolution exists) claim that it’s the “interpretation” of the evidence that counts. That, given the same evidence, one can interpret it to come to differing conclusions, and therefore come up with a “theory” that is of equal validity. They then go on to explain that this “equally valid” theory should also be taught.
This tactic fails on multiple levels.
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June 30th, 2006 Jemmy Button
GOOD MORNING, MR. FILKS. ONE OF OUR TOP AGENTS, Codename ‘Cora Tunnel’, has recently filed a profoundly disturbing report entitled Codpiece: The Protocols of the Elders of Darwin. Her account, now published under statutory provisions of the Freedom of Misinformation Act, chillingly reveals the existence of a brutal junta, relentless in its quest to extirpate morality and presiding over the most vile and ruthless conspiracy ever devised since the creation of the world late in the evening of October 4th, 4004 BC.
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June 28th, 2006 Jemmy Button
IT WAS AN HOUR before lunch, but I didn’t have a client and there was nowhere to look for one. So I put my feet on my desk, pulled a bottle out of the bottom drawer and poured a slug of bourbon into my coffee cup. From the window, the Golden Gate was half-hidden in the dirty fog, the thin sunlight falling on my desk was sliced to ribbons by the Venetian blinds. I lit up a Camel, watched the smoke rise languidly until it hit the ceiling fan, then started to study the racing form. I was thinking about placing a punt on a filly in the 12:40 Santa Anita Handicap when the door opened.
She was blonde and slim and her legs held my eyes like two long strips of flypaper curling out from a little black cocktail dress they’d ban in Boston. This was a doll with the kind of looks to give you the KO punch in the first round.
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