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March 30th, 2012 | Category: religion
You’re all familiar with the Global Atheist Convention 2012, right? It’s a massive event being held at the Melbourne Convention Centre from April 13th-15th, featuring both international and local speakers – philosophers, scientists, writers, comedians, and more – who will all be discussing various topics surrounding atheism or non-belief in religion. My good friend Kylie Sturgess (along with Australian comedian Lawrence Leung) will be MC-ing it. What, you’ve never heard of it? How curious.
Anyway, whether or [...]
» Continue reading “Christian professors vs. little “Mr” Jack Scanlan (at the Reason for Faith Festival)”
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”
November 28th, 2011 | Category: intelligent designIt seems like some unknown – but clearly mysterious – phenomenon is linking my mind with others’, because the day after I mused on Twitter about the way the intelligent design movement capitalises on the dismissive attitude of the scientific community towards people who argue against evolutionary theory, the Discovery Institute’s Casey Luskin wrote a blog post doing exactly that – “The Uncivil Style of Intelligent Design Critics”. Well, either a mystical force is sharing the thoughts of bloggers around the world, or Casey [...]
» Continue reading “Why scientists are feeding the rhetoricotrophic beast of intelligent design, and why they need to stop”
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 26th, 2011 | Category: miscellaneousJust an update as I click my gears back into place for the new university semester, which started yesterday. For those who are interested, my new subjects are Techniques in Molecular Science (2nd year practical molecular biology), Biochemical Regulation of Cell Function (a continuation of Semester 1′s 2nd year biochemistry and molecular biology subject), Genes and Genomes (a continuation of Semester 1′s 2nd year genetics subject) and Composition Studies (my music breadth). It should be quite a fun semester if everything goes [...]
» Continue reading “Xenobiotic biodegradation, @Scitableblogs and jackscanlan.com”
May 27th, 2011 | Category: tabletop transitionals
I’ve been… far too busy. I’ve started a volunteer position at lab near my university (more on that later on, I promise), mid-year exams are coming up and I’ve had a lot on my mind – leaving little time for blogging, I’m afraid.
The TWiID that should have been posted a couple of days ago will instead be rolled into next week’s one, which is actually okay, considering the rather limited selection of blog posts on offer from the Discovery Institute lately… I’ve noticed downward trends in [...]
» Continue reading “Tabletop Transitional – [insert black hole euphemism here]“
January 23rd, 2011 | Category: tabletop transitionalsThis is an old Girl Genius comic, but it’s one of my favourites. In fact, it neatly summarises my opinion of the supernatural worldview – magic is just natural law waiting to be fully understood.
“If we found a ghost in the machine we’d have to start looking for the machine in the ghost.” -Paul Broks
Oh, and you should read Girl Genius, if you don’t already. Great webcomic.
» Continue reading “Tabletop Transitional – Any sufficiently analysed magic…”
November 10th, 2010 | Category: intelligent designBarry Arrington on Uncommon Descent has just posted something a little strange:
I am not satisfied with our definition of “Darwinism” in the glossary over to the right of our home page. The definition is, I think, accurate as far as it goes, but it is incomplete and somewhat vague. In this thread I invite friend and foe alike to provide a brief definition of “Darwinism.” The best entry or a synthesis of the best entries will obtain pride of place as permanent fixture in the UD [...]
» Continue reading “Redefining Darwinism? How about not doing that?”
October 6th, 2010 | Category: tabletop transitionals
Why does the Internet continue to produce combinations of my favourite things? This time it’s science and Flight of the Conchords! That’s right, a scientific parody of this song.
One problem – that’s not how you say “pipette”, is it? It is really pronounced “pie-pet”? I always thought it was “pip-et”. Oh you crazy Americans, when will you learn to speak English properly?
Why does [...]
» Continue reading “Tabletop Transitional – Most Beautiful Girl in the Lab”
September 19th, 2010 | Category: tabletop transitionals
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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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