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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/31/opinion/31brownback.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin Of particular interest is this: This is such a classic tactic that it's worth commenting on. He basically sets "microevolution" against an "exclusively materialistic, deterministic vision of the world...

Yep: the argument that when scientists simulate evolution or abiogenesis in the lab that this proves nothing because the scientists designed the simulation is a pretty empty, sour grapes sort of argument. All the scientists are doing in this case is reproducing natural conditions or doing so...

Note that the Sternberg report he authored amusingly presents all the facts necessary to completely refute the complaints made in the report. A classic case of how you can have your own spin on things, but not your own facts.

I'm still waiting to find out where the Bible talks about DNA. I'm endlessly confused as to how people like Boltwave can actually read something (generally a creationist text), believe it, post it, have pointed out to them a blatant misrepresentation or gross factual error about what evolution...

http://stevereuland.blogspot.com/2006/12/laffaire-de-sternberg-part-eighty.html Conclusion? Despite issuing a report purporting to support the idea that Richard Sternberg was discriminated against, a Republican report basically demonstrates how completely without merit his complaints were...

Good grief, this isn't even a reasoanble thing on which to debate. It is IMPOSSIBLE for mutations to only ever be harmful. If they can cause harm, then they can cause benefit. It's the EXACT same process: it can't just do one and not the other. Uncommon Descent's clais ludicruous. There are...

One of the main reasons Piltdown survived as long as it did was because it wasn't considered particularly interesting and seemed like an anomaly. It certainly wasn't a lynchpin to anything. Man's ancestry as an ape is obvious to anyone that puts in the time to learn about it and isn't dead...

The really odd thing is not that they censor dissent, even polite dissent. The odd thing is all the revisionist history that goes on on that site. Posts change, paragraphs appear and vanish without acknowledgement that they ever existed or that something has happened. Entire discussions...

Can you make up your mind? Are they impossible, or just rare? If just rare, I'd say that 66 major adaptive events in thousands of generations of a relatively miniscule population is actually pretty speedy and common, on the evolutionary scale. Remember, in reality, outside of creationist...

Now that is ridiculous: you are denying that there are ANY mutations at ALL? There plainly are., and anyone that would deny it is plainly off the trolley track on even basic biology. And the fact is, if there are harmful mutations, then logically there HAVE to also be beneficial mutations...

No, special creation became increasingly impossible to maintain given the evidence: at the same time evidence was mounting for common descent. Today, that evidence for common descent is overwhelming, and the only way to sustain special creation is by reference to near daily ad hoc miracles (all...

JohnR7 just dated himself. Dr. Spock's book hasn't been a hot topic since several decades ago. Dr. SPOOKS' book, on the other hand, sounds like something out of a blaxploitation movie.

I'm not sure he really understands what he is talking about. Unfortunately, being very smart can often bea problem when you try to understand a discipline outside your own, because you are too quick to assume that you understand what's going on and aren't missing key elements. Mostly he...

I think the real problem creationists have with evolution is envy. Their belief system explains itself. They believe God created everything and evolution is a lie right off the bat... and that's that. But evolution pulls a hat trick: you can start out without any particular belief in...

Well, I'm sorry to have to say this, but based on what you've said about it so far, that's demonstrably untrue. There are people who claim the holocaust never happened. There are people claim all sorts of crazy things. So what? What any number of people claim is irrelevat to what the...

That's probably because you are only paying attention to the truly looney-tunes side of the specutrm. To give an example of what I mean, most of the folks over at "Reason" magazine are staunch capitalists and libertarians with a pro-corporate bent. They mocked global warming for years. But by...

You are confusing two different things. Cells have mechanisms that prevent and correct mutations. In general, these are NOT either the corrections or the mutations anyone is interested in, because they never even make it into a functional place in any cell. The mutations that we are...

So, basically, what you are saying is that you proudly admit that you don't know what you are talking about, you furhermore refuse to bother to find out because you aren't really interested in the subject, and finally, you blame us for you not knowing or understanding. Something is very wrong...

Right, and if Iraq REALLY existed, more people could find it on a map of the world. But a shockingly high number cannot. The fact that people who know nothing about climate science and spend all day watching the price is right or cooing over how handsoem Sean Hannity don't believe in global...

Well, no, it hasn't. I think you are confusing terminology here. It may be that scientists think "bush" is a better metaphor for the branching patterns than "tree" when talking to laypeople, "tree" is was and still the correct technical description, since it implies little more than nodes and...