So many bad puns, so little time 28 Apr 2009 Wilkins is fragile and destablised Intellectual tourist attacks local inhabitants All happy bacteria are alike (or is that like each other?) Australian current affairs gets vaccination right! [That’s not a pun, it’s an act of God] The original video is here. Evolution does spreadsheets in origin of genetic code Siris and Sandwalk go head to head on the Courtier’s Reply. Neither of them are dressed. Creationists misunderstand Deep Time. I’m shocked. I mean, it’s only ten years since they were taken to task for it. Perhaps if they had millions of years to think it over… Creationism and Intelligent Design Evolution General Science Religion trashcan categorial
Philosophy On dictionaries, movements and rhetorical flourishes 9 Feb 2011 Lately, PZ Myers has been on a tear. He has rejected what he calls “Dictionary Atheism”. I have to admit, he has a way with words. I love it that he can come up with such things as the Courtier’s Reply, his Complexity Design Argument, and so forth. It’s fun… Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity Liveblogging the conference: Roberta Millstein 14 Mar 2008 Roberta is a great philosopher from UC Davis and she’s talking about the notion of populations. Read More
Epistemology Modus Darwin and the *real* modus darvinii 2 Feb 2011 Elliot Sober has published a claim (Sober 1999, Sober 2008: §4.1, 265ff) that Darwin used, and we should too, a particular syllogism: similarity, ergo common ancestry. This cannot be right, for several reasons: logical, historical and inferential. First the logical, as this is rather vapid, and can be guarded against… Read More
“Wilkins is fragile and destabilised”. Not only that, he’s calving! I fear I am a coward, I couldn’t bear to watch the vaccine vid. Reading the ignorant comments from the anti-vax trolls on Plait’s blog was torture enough.