An open letter to creationists 4 Oct 2008 … by GumbyTheCat, with just the right amount of snark. Late note: See the critical commentary by Galley Proofs. Sermon
Evolution On the “Darwin Year” 1 Jul 2008 Readers may be somewhat surprised that Evolving Thoughts hasn’t made much of the Darwin bicentennial and the Origin sesquicentennial so far. Well, I haven’t needed to, given the number of other folk making hay from this. In particular I recommend Carl Zimmer’s piece, over at his new digs with Discover… Read More
Education Dicks, niceness and evil: a rant 29 Aug 2010 The ongoing blogbattle over whether to be nice or a dick skeptic continues. Phil Plait gave a speech suggesting that niceness works better. There was blowback, of course, which he discusses here and here. The Great Tone Debate seems to resolve down to those who think that minds are changed… Read More
Sermon A slight diversion 6 Apr 200818 Sep 2017 Over the past few months I have increasingly become aware of the greatness of the last work of Johnny Cash. I don’t much like country and western, and Cash was always regarded as a bit twee in my youth. But recently I came across what is surely one of the… Read More
Wow! My previous record for traffic was 141 visits… this morning, before 9 A.M., I have 202 so far… cool! Thanks for the referral! I had no idea a ScienceBlogs blogger even knew my little blog existed.