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
Biology So much to say, so little time 9 Jul 2009 As I prepare for the conferences I start attending and blathering at from tomorrow, I of course find a treasure trove of things to blog about. Since I can’t really do them all justice, I will merely put a one liner for each below the fold. Read More
Creationism and Intelligent Design Evolution and its rivals – special issue of Synthese 16 Dec 2010 A special issue of the philosophical journal Synthese covers the topic “Evolution and its rivals”. It is open access until the end of this month, so you can get the papers now. The major discussions centre around intelligent design, which is the nearest to intellectual adequacy that creationism gets. There… 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.