Crazy World Youth Day Laws

Yes, yes … been busy.  However, this particular story really could not be passed up.  For those not in the know, Sydney is hosting Catholic World Youth Day (being helped along by an inordinate amount of government funding). As a part of this little shindig, New South Wales Police have been granted some rather … [...]

Perloff: Another who doesn’t seem to have a clue

The intellectual dishonesty of many (if not most) Intelligent Design Proponents seems to be massive indeed.  Thanks to this blog entry, it seems I have come across yet another one; James Perloff.  So who is James Perloff? Good question since I’ve never run into his writings before.  It seems that he is most famous for [...]

Living with a Corpse for Religious Beliefs

Some people have been put on record on saying such things as even moderate religious beliefs are dangerous.  Not only because they provide a foundation and support for more radical (and insane) beliefs but also that they provide a mechanism so the gullible and uneducated can be so easily led astray from simple common sense.  [...]

Ken Miller Speaks Up about ‘Expelled’

It seems pretty clear that Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed and those behind it have been a rather dishonest lot for various reasons.  These reasons have been gone over in this blog and many others and the evidence for this claim seems pretty conclusive.  Now one more person has thrown his hat into the proverbial ring, [...]

Tampa: No Wizards Allowed

Wizardry. As defined by a dictionary; “the art, skill, or accomplishments of a wizard”. So to practice wizardry, you really have to be a Wizard. Mildly interesting but not at all surprising. What is surprising how incredibly backward, ignorant and generally daft the administrators of a Pasco County (that’s in Florida) [...]

Repeated, ignorant Creationist/ID arguments: A solution

One of the things that annoys me about the whole Theory of Evolution & Creationism/ID topic that Creationists and ID proponents always repeat the same old silly arguments. You know the sort I mean; appeals to a misunderstanding of the Laws of Thermodynamics, the ‘which is easier to believe’ fallacy and so on. [...]

Human Evolution: Why are we like we are?

Often I get into discussions with people about how the Human body relates to the Theory of Evolution and how we ourselves can be pretty good evidence that Evolution happened.  I sometimes get told that the human body has almost never changed which, of course, is rather silly.   So just to throw it out there, [...]