In case you haven’t seen it yet… Sad. I can’t believe Behe is still using the mousetrap analogy for “irreducible complexity” when the very concept has been so thoroughly debunked over the last several years.
Category: Skepticism/critical thinking
I really, really wish the Discovery Institute would stop putting out idiocy like this: We have blogged in the past about the growing numbers of doctors who are skeptical of Darwinian evolution to explain the complexity of life. Those numbers are continuing to grow, and conesquently doctors are beginning to organize themselves and reach out […]
Michael Behe, that Don Quixote of “intelligent design” who never tires of tilting at windmills of “fatal flaws” in evolutionary theory that he think he’s identified, did quite a bit of tilting at HIV in his book. Watch his blathering taken down by a pre-graduate student named Abbie. It’s so good it’s been republished at […]
This week, the 66th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle just so happens to coincide with the 66th Meeting of the International Society of Skeptics; so they decided to hold a joint meeting. This week’s host, Mark Hoofnagle, has the abstract book all lined up for you to peruse. Excellent stuff. If only real scientific meetings […]
While I’m back on the topic of vaccines again (and that topic seems to me less and less rancorous these days, not because antivaccination “activists” have gotten any less loony but because the smoking cranks, at least the ones showing up on my blog these days, threaten to make antivaccinationists seem low key by comparison), […]
