Denialism

Category: Evolution Denialism

  • Another loss for ID

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    The Brits have decided that Intelligent Design creationism, is well, creationism. It will not be allowed in science classes in the UK. The government has announced that it will publish guidance for schools on how creationism and intelligent design relate to science teaching, and has reiterated that it sees no place for either on the…

  • How long before Sal Cordova quote mines this one?

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    Nature reports on this new paper that shows a major conflict resolving the fossil and molecular records of mammalian evolution. It’s entitled, “Cretaceous eutherians and Laurasian origin for placental mammals near the K/T boundary” and the major finding is that mammals seem to have evolved largely after this boundary based on their discovery of fossil…

  • The Egnor Analogy

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    Michael Egnor is to “argument from analogy” as a fish is to __________. A. Fire B. Victorian Literature C. Mathematics D. Water Imagine scientists living on an isolated island who have developed sophisticated science and culture, with one exception: they deny that telecommunication is possible. For assorted reasons, they deny that the human voice can…

  • Sal Cordova Quote Mines Nature (I’m shocked!)

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    I just knew it. The second I read this abstract I just knew that the Uncommon Descent cranks would dust off their old “Junk DNA” harangue and suggest that if it wasn’t for them, no one would believe that all that non-coding DNA had a purpose. Sal Cordova obliged, and it’s the usual embarrassing misread…

  • Is there any idiot theory UD won’t credulously repeat?

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    Now it’s the “Rachel Carson killed millions” nonsense over at Uncommon Descent and it’s based upon this WSJ editorial from Dr. Zaramba, the health minister for Uganda. What’s really embarrassing is how they link the entire article and it’s clear they didn’t even read it. BarryA writes:

  • Sean Carroll Reviews Behe’s “Edge of Evolution”

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    It’s a good read, also check out MarkCC’s review It’s another example of cranks not recognizing talent – or rather the absence of it. And Sean Carroll hits pretty hard in his review making the point that there are so many basic errors in the book that Behe isn’t doing ID any favors. He ends…

  • A question for Luskin III

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    Gosh, they just can’t accept that no reputable science department wants an IDer around. They continue to push this academic freedom issue, when it’s perfectly acceptable to consider an applicant’s ideas when they are pursued intramurally, and can’t quite decide whether they want to make it a religious discrimination issue – risking admitting that ID…

  • Go to Pharyngula right now

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    His coverage of the creation museum is a must-see.

  • If you’re going to cherry pick, don’t provide a link

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    It just makes it too easy to show your dishonesty. UD continues to harp endlessly about Gonzalez’ tenure case as they have nothing else to do, like original research. But I have to give them a piece of advice. If you’re going to cherry pick, either don’t cherry pick the first line of an article,…

  • My question for Luskin again

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    With nothing of any substance to actually talk about, like bench research, original ideas etc., the evolution denialists continue to harp on Guillermo Gonzalez, the ISU professor who failed to get tenure. However, my question for Casey Luskin remains unanswered. They have accused science of a conspiracy (surprise surprise) because we don’t accept ID as…