According to the Steven Novella's Neurologica blog , the Intelligent Design people (specifically the Discovery Institute ) are getting interested in neuroscience (see also part 2 ), attacking the...US Constitution. I'm not sure this can be it, as consciousness isn't on the curriculum in most schools, but it does fit in with the wider strategy of looking for ways to undermine physicalism
A few days ago, I challenged myself to take risks with my jewelry. I was thinking too small. And right now I'm going to go out on a limb with my writing and my life. There has been too many times where... Darwin." On a separate, but somewhat related note, anyone who thinks God doesn't have a sense of humor doesn't know Him very well. I'm currently typing on a computer that hasn't worked in weeks
I already told mundens about this, but it annoys me enough I'm lifting it out of comments. Professor Steve Jones is an idiot . Either that, or he's being tragically misquoted. According to...They may have drifted so far they might no more want to than you or I would want to mate with a chimpanzee. The writer is an idiot. And fortunately, he's being treated as such by the biology blogosphere
It's always bugged me that critics refer not to evolution but to Darwin. As Olivia Judson says, It suggests that Darwin was the beginning and the end, the alpha and omega, of evolutionary biology...to ask questions about the detailed workings of evolution that it has not been possible to ask before. Really could not have put it better myself. There's more by Judson on this topic at her blog.
Counter-Darwinian junk science is the target. Satire is the domain of play. Devise a justification for intelligent design that would be utterly offensive to the typical intelligent design proponent. Lewdness...that he gave us the intelligence to discover the properties of plants, along with the herbs Angelica Root, Dong Quai, Blue Cohosh, and Pennyroyal, all of which are safe natural abortificants
One of the things that inspired me to be an anthropology major was my desire to dispel myths perpetrated by books such as Chariots of the Gods and others of that ilk. Such theories claim that ancient...won't let us sell ourselves, or the universe, short with a flawed theory which I hope one day will lie on the ashes of enlightenment among those of the heliocentric or flat Earth theories. --->Susa
The LA Times reports: Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted...were here 4000 years ago. I want to know that, I really do. Because she's gonna have the nuclear codes." http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/09/28/palin-claimed-dinosaurs-and-people-coexisted/?clickthru
Here's a review of a supplemental text book, " Explore Evolution ," that is being introduced in Louisiana by proponents of the Intelligent Design theory of evolution (basically trying to teach our kids...science in favor of zealot-ridden religious propaganda. And unfortunately, this book is very good at using psuedo-science to make a case that undermines evolution in a rather convincing fashion.
