A 2 year old girl picks up a screwdriver, runs around, falls, and…
She’s fine now, fortunately — it somehow missed her brain. The father calls this event a “Christmas miracle.”
That God fella. He’s such a card, poking little girls in the head with screwdrivers.
Well, they’ve got one Republican and one Democratic congressman to agree to co-chair a presidential debate on science, which is good news. The framework for the debate is coming together…now all they need is some debaters.
This is no way to run a country.
Yeah, they’re already pouring in: everyone has a list of the best or worst of 2007. Most I couldn’t care less about, but the Beast’s 50 most loathsome people in America is at least primo grade-A disgust.
The winners in this year’s list weren’t just predictable, they were inevitable.
Peter Irons has again been having way too much fun with creationist shenanigans. Irons, you may recall, is a hot shot west coast lawyer who had a grand time with the Pivar situation, and has lately been nudging Dembski on the case of his misuse of the Harvard/XVIVO animation. Would you believe that Bill Dembski went crying to his lawyer because Irons was making him miserable?
The email exchange is below the fold. John Gilmore is the St Paul lawyer who defended Dembski in the recent Baylor flap, and he does seem to have rather more sense than his client.
And it is so apparent on his new blog. The only reason I’ll link to it is 1) it’s always useful to highlight the awesome inanity of a YEC/ID blog, and 2) to correct a bizarre claim: “Myers is the USA’s leading voice for atheism.” All that follows is equally wrong and foolish.
I gave a Nelson laugh to England a while back, for the creationist theme park that was going to be built there. I may have to take it back. It looks like the backers are a gang of confused prevaricators with no concrete plans, just a lot of wishful thinking on their part.
I propose that they crawl into their churches and pray real hard. That’s probably as viable a business plan as what they’ve got right now.
It’s all a bit too convoluted to make for snappy copy, but Dembski had been using Harvard/XVIVO’s animation in his lectures without permission…and now it’s clear from his Design of Life book that he did so in full awareness that he had no right to do so.
Hey, I thought these Christian folk were supposed to be the morally upstanding ones. That’s what they’ve always told me, anyway — have they been lying about that, too?
Ann Coulter is unhappy with Huckabee, but not for his many failings that rational people see as an obstacle—but because he is insufficently critical of evolution. She really wants a presidential candidate to not just deny modern science, but to advocate a platform that proposes to take action in the schools against it.
