If Biologists Believed in Evolution . . . Maybe They Could Fly

Larry Arnhart, an honest evolutionist, gives us this:
Oddly enough, it really is true that many biologists have no great interest in evolution, and they certainly don’t see evolution as a bridge across all of the intellectual disciplines.
This point comes up in the first issue of the EvoS Journal: The Journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium. [...]

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Bow Down

Does the belief in evolution by natural selection lead to atheism? No.
Does the belief in evolution by natural selection lead to pure, rational contemplation of scientific truth? No.
It leads to ecstatic festivals in honor of The Great One:
The ‘man’ effigy is the centre of the festival, both figuratively and literally. This year, the 12-metre human [...]

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The Yellow Knight

Despite his annoying quirks, his occasional vulgarity, his poor choice of friends, the low quality of his fiction writing, and the shallowness of some of his reasoning, there is a reason why I keep a link to Vox Day on my sidebar. Occasionally he offers very entertaining provocations:
So, will PZ dare to enter the Red [...]

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Hitler’s Health Care

Hitler’s health care is an ingenious system where the sick, the poor, the old, the uneducated, and the stupid get handily exterminated under the pretense that they are “covered” for their illnesses, when actually they are being herded into cattle cars before being stripped of their valuables and executed. The strong get stronger and the [...]

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The Entelechies of Atheism

I was going to call this “The End of Atheism,” just to tease everyone, but I was afraid the joke would be too subtle. By entelechy I mean what Aristotle meant, which is given in the Oxford English Dictionary as follows:
1. In Aristotle’s use: The realization or complete expression of some function; the condition in [...]

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Founding Fathers Quote Friday

BUT if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes? Do we not see a fair creation prepared to receive us the instant we are born — a world furnished to our hands, that cost us nothing? Is it we that light up the sun; [...]

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The Dogs of Science

Another phony “transitional fossil,” and more evidence that most so-called evolutionists still believe in linear descent:
She’s being called the “missing link in human evolution”, which is annoying. The whole “missing link” category is a bit of journalistic trumpery: almost every fossil could be called a link, and it feeds the simplistic notion that there could [...]

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Missing Link in Logic

Here is another missing link story:
A fossil has been unearthed in Canada’s Arctic that reveals how seals developed from land-based mammals, scientists said….
The science team has dubbed it ‘a walking seal’, although it is not the direct ancestor of any modern seal….
‘Our animal fills that transitional gap between the land form and the marine flippered [...]

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Banishing Anonymity

Recently I had an exchange with the estimable scientist John A. Davison, who is also an iconoclastic, full-time gadfly to anyone involved in the Darwinism-Intelligent Design Debate for Loquacious Yahoos, which I will simply abbreviate as DIDDLY. (The practical significance of this debate is, indeed, DIDDLY-squat.)
Having spent a lifetime annoying orthodox TENS evolutionists and orthodox [...]

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Analyze and Evaluate

Here is a strange new meta-study:
Hundreds of Natural-Selection Studies Could be Wrong, Study Demonstrates
Scientists at Penn State and the National Institute of Genetics in Japan have demonstrated that several statistical methods commonly used by biologists to detect natural selection at the molecular level tend to produce incorrect results.
The strange part is not that some scientists [...]

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