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 … [...]

More Dinosaur Goodness

Been busy with real life matters, hence the lack of posts.   However, I came across this story from ABC Science about … well, it touches on several different topics.  It seems well worth a quick read.

Walking on the Sun

Sometimes I simply like to post science related news stories which are interesting.  This brief story is simply about how, universally speaking, unremarkable the Sun is.  It also has an interesting link to the Theory of Evolution in that the Sun is the major source of the energy for Earth and since the Sun has [...]

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, [...]

Platypus Genome Fun

Often the case of the Platypus is an example brought up by Creationists as a case of something the Theory of Evolution is unable to explain.  Of course, they were wrong then and it seems that some further research has shown them to be even more wrong (if that is possible).  The following is the [...]