If I get sick, please don’t pray for me. Instead, get me to a doctor. Don’t do what the obviously very faithful Dale and Leilani Neumann of Weston, Wisconsin (a rural town near Wausau, smack dab in the middle of… Continue Reading
A relative sent me a video of a debate between an evolutionary biologist and a creationism advocate. Better yet, a young-earth creationist. I’ve sent him back a rather detailed critique of what I saw — suffice to say here that… Continue Reading
It’s every bit as offensive as pandering to the “intelligent design” crowd. And now Barack Obama has done it too: like John McCain, he’s suggested on the campaign trail that vaccinations for childhood diseases can cause autism — a genetically-inherited… Continue Reading
Stork theorists unite! Anticipating success with their feature film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Producers Mark Mathis, Logan Craft and Walt Ruloff have already leaked a teaser railer for the film’s sequel. Their “teach the controversy” slogan seemed to work well… Continue Reading
The “leading” “academic” source of discourse on Intelligent Design theory has just published a report that says: Complexity can arise without intelligent design, but complexity is not the same thing as design. But isn’t the basis for intelligent design “theory”… Continue Reading
In today’s Fish Wrapper, I’m tempted to think that someone has run an April Fool’s joke. Jonah Goldberg attacks the Darwin Fish. The reason? He just watched the recently banned anti-Muslim movie Fitna and thinks that evolution advocates are smug… Continue Reading
Popular atheist blogger, University of Minnesota biology professor, and intelligent design critic PZ Meyers went to see the premiere of the pro-creationist movie Expelled!: No Intelligence Allowed and was ejected from the line before he could go into the screening.… Continue Reading
One of the most irresponsible pieces of pseudoscience I have heard of recently is the refusal of parents to get vaccinations for their children because they fear that vaccinations will cause autism — a fear based on nothing but fear,… Continue Reading
Can you really tell the future using asparagus? This doesn’t seem like it would be any more accurate than any other kind of augury (which is to say, as good as or slightly worse than chance). But then again, I… Continue Reading
A friend of mine spammed me today with a video about how evil the big corporations Fox and Monsanto are because they’re lying to the public about the dangers of recombined bovine growth hormone. My characteristically verbose response: My view… Continue Reading