Life Without a Net
Creationism
Creationism in Schools: What Century is This?
Yes, you are one of those hick hillbillies believing all that religious stuff, and you’re teaching your students to be ignorant racists, and that’s the reality of the situation. How does a person who doesn’t understand basic biology become a biology teacher? Let’s be clear about this: Evolution is the foundation upon which all theoretical and … Continue reading
DNA is Not a Code
Ok, yes it is… sort of. There’s been a rather tired argument making its way around the theist blogosphere of late, arguing that DNA is a code, and codes are designed things. The very fact of it being a code proves that there must have been someone who designed the code. As usual, this argument … Continue reading
Whoops! Another Nail in the ID Coffin
We all knew it was just a matter of time, right? For years now, one of the last strongholds of Intelligent Design proponents has been science’s inability to explain how RNA came to exist in the first place. IDers have held to the final “irreducible complexity” argument. RNA itself must have been created by an … Continue reading
The War is Over
UPDATE 04/05: In light of a very thoughtful email response (which I have asked permission to repost) I need to make a couple of clarifications to this post. I see in retrospect that I have not been as clear as I ought to have been with regard to what I am calling certainty. As you … Continue reading
Evolution and Suffering
When I was born, Sociobiology had yet to be published. By the time I began my first year of “life science” in school, it was still being talked about only in the most erudite of academic circles. By the time I reached college, inklings of the dangers inherent in a sociobiological approach to humankind were beginning … Continue reading
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