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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?”
February 22nd, 2012 | Category: announcement
That’s right, selected articles from Homologous Legs will be appearing every second Tuesday on the community blog of Vibewire Youth Inc., an Australian non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting the voices of young people on important issues. It was wonderful to be asked to contribute to this growing community and hopefully people will enjoy my take on science and skepticism.
My first article, ““Science Says You’re Wrong!” – How (Not) to Deal with Intelligent Design”, went up yesterday. As post [...]
» Continue reading “Joining the team at Vibewire Youth Inc.”
December 30th, 2011 | Category: tabletop transitionals
There are so many great webcomics out there that every time I mention another I feel as though I should have already brought your attention to it. Scenes From A Multiverse is no exception. It’s clever, funny, and due to its sci-fi nature, often touches on areas in science and related topics.
Of course, this means that intelligent design was bound to come up sooner or later.
Click on the image to see the full comic!
Hat-tip to my good friend [...]
» Continue reading “Tabletop Transitional – An irreducibly complex pile of monkeys”
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”
March 13th, 2011 | Category: announcementSome extremely exciting news: I’ve been offered to become a part of the team over at The Panda’s Thumb!
For those unaware, The Panda’s Thumb is the single greatest evolution-defending/intelligent design-attacking blog out there. It’s been running since 2004, and features such contributors as PZ Myers, John Wilkins, Nick Matzke, Jason Rosenhouse, Wesley Elsberry, Jeffrey Shallit… The list goes on. These are the big players, the ones who have been fighting against the Discovery Institute since [...]
» Continue reading “I’m contributing marrow and bone to The Panda’s Thumb!”
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 20th, 2011 | Category: philosophyYes, you read correctly. No, this blog hasn’t been hijacked by Casey Luskin, nor is this an early April Fool’s Day prank, nor have I acquired a severe brain injury.
Intelligent design, as a cultural movement, is demonstrably religious in nature. The vast majority of its proponents and supporters are evangelical, conservative Christians, and a large proportion of its outreach programs are aimed at churches and other religious institutions. While the main leaders of the movement actively deny it, [...]
» Continue reading “Some preliminary thoughts on developing a scientific form of intelligent design”
January 13th, 2011 | Category: intelligent designThis gem from Antievolution.org forum member Doc Bill was particularly brilliant, I thought:
The DI [Discovery Institute] is all about credential inflation. How many times have you read, “Hey, Louis got a couple of papers published” and nobody bats an eye. Totally normal. Yea, Louis!
In DI speak it would have been “World-renown scientist and five-time Nobel nominee Dr. Dr. Dr. Louis published two peer-reviewed pro-intelligent design papers challenging the dogmatic-Darwinian orthodoxy in the prestigious International Harvester Journal of Molecular-Schmecular Complexitation Review Letters Acta (Czech)”
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» Continue reading “The Discovery Institute cares not for the stability of the academic economy”
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”
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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
homologouslegs(at)gmail(dot)com
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