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April 2019

April 07, 2019

Mythicism and the Bacterial Flagellum

As I unwisely allowed myself to get dragged into a conversation on another blog with...

August 2018

August 17, 2018

Deceitful Intelligent Design

I thought I would share on the blog what I wrote on Facebook when sharing...

June 2015

June 03, 2015

No New Information About Young-Earth Creationism and Intelligent Design

Intelligent Design proponents and young-earth creationists tell lies. That isn't new information. One of the...

March 2015

March 09, 2015

To Engage or Not to Engage

I had been meaning to blog for a while about the question of whether it...

December 2014

December 30, 2014

Creationist Bingo

Michael Roberts shared the above card for playing "Creationist Bingo." It seems to have been...

December 03, 2014

Science Denial Mad Libs

Also note how well this works: The scholarly consensus regarding the historical Jesus leaves something...

September 2014

September 03, 2014

Scourge-Making Intelligent Designer

I was struck by these words of Michael J. Behe, quoted in a post by...

August 2014

August 19, 2014

“Intelligent Design Research” Means Listening to Elton John

Jerry Coyne has shared a close look at the details of a Discovery Institute promotional...

June 2014

June 26, 2014

Unreasonable Demand of Antievolutionists

The above image comes from EvolutionEvidence.org, which has a whole page dedicated to intermediate fossils...

May 2014

May 13, 2014

Icon of ID

Via Pharyngula 

April 2014

April 27, 2014

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

The quote is from the conclusion of a recent post on John Pieret's blog, "Thoughts...

April 26, 2014

It’s Wisdom

The quote from Rachel Held Evans ("It's not capitulating to culture to change your mind...

April 08, 2014

Ancient Cosmologies and Modern Cosmologists

A talk offering visualizations of ancient cosmologies came to my attention. I will embed the...

April 06, 2014

Defending Science Has Cost Me a Friend

Apparently my criticisms of Intelligent Design and defense of mainstream science has cost me a...

February 2014

February 08, 2014

Intelligent Designer/Underachiever

From People in White Coats via NCSE Just a reminder that tomorrow is Evolution Sunday,...

January 2014

January 26, 2014

Responding to Intelligent Design

There have been a lot of scientific responses to Intelligent Design. But it is important...

January 23, 2014

Chromosomes and Creationism

The above is based on a comment I made in a Facebook group: The evidence...

January 22, 2014

Contracted-Out Creation?

I made the image above based on a comment Kenneth Gilmore made on Facebook. In...

January 06, 2014

Creationist Quote Mining

This demotivational poster about young-earth creationist and Intelligent Design proponent quote-mining was inspired (or perhaps...

November 2013

November 21, 2013

Machine-Making Minds Made by Mind-Making Machines

I happened across another iteration of the design argument in its modern-day form, the essence...

September 2013

September 21, 2013

Creationism and Religious Freedom

Today my class on "Religion and Freedom of Expression" met for the first time. It...

September 09, 2013

Pick Your Design Argument

I recently mentioned the contrast between two very different sorts of "design argument." Now another...

September 06, 2013

Darwin’s Doubt and Ray Comfort’s Certainty

There have been a lot of devastating reviews of Stephen Meyer's book Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive...

September 03, 2013

Design All The Way Down?

I have sometime found myself in a debate with someone whose views I do not...

September 02, 2013

Undesigned?

VinnyJH asked in a recent comment a question that I too have often asked: I've...

August 2013

August 30, 2013

Argumentum a Recensiones Amazon

I have encountered what may be a relatively new fallacy, but is a logical fallacy...

August 29, 2013

Can Young-Earth Creationists and Proponents of Intelligent Design be Christians?

Michael Ruse famously asked the opposite, whether a Darwinian can be a Christian. But the...

July 2013

July 23, 2013

Evolution is Not the Problem

It frustrates me that any religious believer thinks that evolution is somehow at odds with...

February 2013

February 15, 2013

How to Tell Pseudoscience and Pseudoscholarship from the Real Thing

Geology professor Callan Bentley received an e-mail from the Discovery Institute asking for permission to...

January 2013

January 10, 2013

George Lucas on Intelligent Design

  Through the poster above, which was shared on Facebook, I had my attention drawn...

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