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
Evolution What is “nature”? 2 Jan 20142 Jan 2014 Many critics of science, including Christian philosophers like Alvin Plantinga and William Lane Craig,attack something they call “naturalism”, the view that the natural world is all there is. As Papineau notes in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry, the term has no very precise meaning in philosophy, or in science…. Read More
Evolution Congrats, and stuff 23 May 2008 One of my two favourite ethicists has just got tenure. Now she can say what she really thinks. [I don’t know who started the canard that ethicists are unethical. The two I know are very ethical indeed. Probably a decision theorist.] Language Log gives voice to the oft-repeated but (so… Read More
Biology On vitalism 2 Dec 2009 I came across this quote: In our recent science the Aristotelian doctrine is not dead. For but little changed, though dressed in new garments, this Aristotelian entelechy, which so fascinated Leibnitz, enters into the Vitalism of Hans Driesch; and of those who believe with him, that far as physical laws… 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.