Things Glenn Beck has never seen 24 Oct 2010 A DNA sequence Comparative anatomical diagrams Behavioural studies of apes and humans compared Psychological studies of apes and human children Fossils A science book His arse Evolution Humor Pop culture Evolution
Ethics and Moral Philosophy Why eat meat? 6 May 20126 May 2012 A while back, the New York Times held a blog competition on justifications for eating meat, in 600 words or less. I submitted mine, but I bet it didn’t get far up the selection tree, as the winner is effectively a popular piece rather than a philosophical justification, and so… Read More
Epistemology God and evolution 3: The problem of purpose A 13 Apr 201322 Jun 2018 The problem of purpose When Darwin published the Origin, he was lauded by his Christian friend and correspondent Asa Gray, who wrote: “…Darwin’s great service to Natural Science in bringing back to it Teleology: so that instead of Morphology versus Teleology, we shall have Morphology wedded to Teleology” Darwin replied… Read More
Biology Henry Gee’s book “The Accidental Species” 9 Oct 20139 Oct 2013 I have three rules in life. One is, Never get into a land war in Asia. The second is, Locate the nearest exit. The third and most important is: When Henry Gee writes something, believe it. I first encountered Henry through his book In Search of Deep Time, which covered… Read More
I think he sees his arse from the inside. If I may repeat a joke that I wrote at Dispersal of Darwin: “I have never seen a half-human/half Fox-Commentator, so perhaps Beck has a point about evolution.” Ba dum-bum.
The truth (whatever that is), reason, or an understanding of logical, sound thinking. Probably eats white chocolate. Barbarian.
But, leaving aside the anatomical jokes, about which I shall not deign to mention that he farts when he sneezes, he can hardly see his arse without a — what do we call it? — oh, yes, tht’s it — a rear-view mirror. Could he master such a piece of modern technology?
My only experiance of Glen Beck is through Charlie Brooker. If you have not seen it it is rather good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_amyJCLmMY8
Things Glenn Beck has also never seen: The other side of the argument The inside of a book A shrink The light Sense
I find it faintly puzzling that your DNA sequence link goes to Britten’s odd little paper rather than to the much better Chimpanzee Genome Consortium paper, here, which makes your point much more strongly. Of course Beck hasn’t seen either of them, and wouldn’t know what to do with either of them anyway.