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March 13th, 2012 | Category: skepticismRegular readers of this blog may know of “Will”, a frequent commenter on my posts about evolutionary biology and intelligent design who seems to disagree with absolutely everything I say. Some would, and have, called him a troll – I’m a little more lenient in my descriptions, but I usually restrain from responding to him too much, given that his comments are often filled with semi-decipherable appeals to “natural genetic engineering” and consciousness in bacteria and other organisms. In short, I really don’t have time to wade through the murky [...]
» Continue reading “Am I an evolutionary ideologue?”
December 17th, 2011 | Category: tabletop transitionals
What? You haven’t heard of Louis C.K.? Really? Then you’ve been missing out on one of the best stand-up comedians alive today. His bits on the inquisitiveness of young children and why the world is amazing, yet nobody cares were formative in my appreciation of good comedy. He’s a comedy [...]
» Continue reading “Tabletop Transitional – Comedian Louis C.K. on evolution”
September 16th, 2011 | Category: miscellaneousReally, truly, I didn’t mean it. Life gets busy, you know? Er, I mean, the Men-in-Black arrested me and wiped my memory; my cat ate my laptop; the Tasmanians invaded; the Internet in Australia was shut off for two weeks; I was turned into a horrible Drosophila ananassae/Homo sapiens hybrid in a freak lab accident involving PCR, a papercut and a dodgy pipette: mix and match your favourite (far more exciting) excuses for my absence.
Anyway, the point is, I was gone for a while. But the Internet stops for no [...]
» Continue reading “While I was gone… (aka. Having compound eyes isn’t all it’s cracked up to be)”
July 1st, 2011 | Category: religionThe Novellatron – the skeptical, alien-made robot also known as Dr. Steven Novella – has many detractors in the worlds of pseudoscience and antiscience, but none that I would call his nemesis: other than perhaps that of Dr. Michael Egnor, conservative Catholic neurosurgeon and ID proponent. Hmm, then again, maybe “nemesis” is too strong [...]
» Continue reading “How To Reclaim A Derogatory Nickname, with Michael Egnor”
June 22nd, 2011 | Category: intelligent designDon’t worry, I’m still alive! It’s nearing the end of my exam period, with three exams already done and dusted. My last exam – Principles of Genetics – is on Friday, and then I’m free. Stress levels haven’t been too bad, but as you’re probably aware, it’s taken the wind out of my blogging. Oof! I’ve also learnt that I’m not a huge fan of medical microbiology, especially when it comes to memorising specific antibiotics. Why would [...]
» Continue reading “The burden of (exams and) proof”
January 29th, 2011 | Category: satireIntelligent design-inspired hip-hop wasn’t the only thing of note I found in a recent trawl of the now-defunct blog ID Arts. Oh no, I stumbled upon this gem written by the Discovery Institute’s very own Casey Luskin back in July of 2008: a parody template of a generic conversation between a “Darwinist” and an “ID Proponent”.
Here’s a taste:
ID Proponent: Judge ignored pro-ID research. [...]
» Continue reading “If Casey Luskin wants an ID dialogue parody, I’ll give him an ID dialogue parody”
January 10th, 2011 | Category: scienceToday’s science link is the YouTube channel of QualiaSoup.
Science and critical thinking communication can be tough through the medium of text. Sure, you can have a few pictures in there now and again, but the majority of the information must be absorbed through people sitting there and actively reading what has been written. While that’s legitimate and all well and good, it’s obvious that most people would prefer to watch a visually-stimulating and entertaining video than read text, no matter how well written it is.
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» Continue reading “Monday Science Link – QualiaSoup’s excellent science communication videos”
July 27th, 2010 | Category: evolutionWhat’s this? Science blogging on Pharyngula? I never thought I’d see the day when PZ Myers blogged about science!
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I’m kidding, but it is true that most of his posts aren’t strictly about science, and when they are they’re usually not educational on any meaningful level. This is probably due to the sheer volume of posts he churns out – he can’t write educational pieces about science for every post – however, when he does get around to clarifying a scientific issue, usually biological in nature, he always writes [...]
» Continue reading “A more accurate way to think about evolutionary change”
April 26th, 2010 | Category: tabletop transitionalsEducation, people! IT MATTERS.
Replace the movie with a biology test about evolutionary theory, and if the Discovery Institute gets its way, similar problems might occur: “Not phylogenetic analysis! Homology is the work of design, not a natural biological process!”
Education, people! IT MATTERS. Replace the movie with a biology test about evolutionary theory, and if the Discovery Institute gets its way, similar problems might occur: “Not phylogenetic analysis! Homology…
March 27th, 2010 | Category: evolutionGary Ablett Sr. is truly a paragon of the modern age. An AFL football star, a public figure who speaks out against drug use, and now, revealed for the first time ever in the Herald Sun newspaper yesterday, an expert in organic chemistry, geology and evolutionary biology.
Ablett’s article, entitled “What kind of world do we want to live in?”, attacked the notion of “humanism in schools” and the recent Global Atheist Convention in Melbourne, as well, funnily enough, evolution and abiogenesis as scientific [...]
» Continue reading “Is Ablettogenesis a smooth or crunchy process?”
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Homologous Legs is the blog of Jack Scanlan, an Australian biology student who has a serious problem with creationists, intelligent design proponents and anyone else who misrepresents evolutionary biology or science in general.
He uses this blog to post news about the intelligent design/evolution "war", science communication in biology and chemistry, and mostly coherent thoughts from his scattered, music-loving brain. Contact
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