Ken Miller on Intelligent Design
I don’t often do this, but i couldn’t come up with any justifiable reasoning for me to simply pat P.Z. Myers on the back.
Ken Miller weighs in on Expelled
Category: Creationism
Posted on: May 8, 2008 3:15 PM, by PZ MyersGuess what? He didn’t like it, nosir.
“Expelled” is a shoddy piece of propaganda that props up the failures of Intelligent Design by playing the victim card. It deceives its audiences, slanders the scientific community, and contributes mightily to a climate of hostility to science itself. Stein is doing nothing less than helping turn a generation of American youth away from science. If we actually come to believe that science leads to murder, then we deserve to lose world leadership in science. In that sense, the word “expelled” may have a different and more tragic connotation for our country than Stein intended.
That’s timely, since it’s also a theme of Miller’s new book, which argues strongly that creationism has destructive consequences for America’s scientific enterprise.
This post was originally supposed to be a a response to a video i saw on youtube.
Ken Miller is one of the biologists involved in the human genome project and is an author/co-author to a number of the many biology books that many of us grew to loathe because of their size and dryness. He goes to town on the ID controversy and takes a very familiar position. For those of you like me who have been unable to muscle into the theatres to see this terrible excuse of a movie (or more like me, refusing to see it at all on grounds that you wont watch shit) i suggest you look around. there are a number of discussions going on highlighting the arguments being used in the movie and how it ultimatly fails miserably at proving anything.Posted on May 15th, 2008 by Bob in Misc. Video
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Posted on May 14th, 2008 by Bob in Misc. Video
Eye color as an analogy
My class is in the process of writing a critical thinking piece on a very controversial topic, one that has plagued our society for some time. Racial discrimination is a topic that has frightened a number of us into a state of perpetual fear and loathing, and it’s high time that we realized the truth behind this situation.
Posted on May 14th, 2008 by Bob in Global Crises, Inspiration, Misc. Video
Hubble has brought us…
As amazing as the universe is, it is certainly not something that any of us can ever expect to understand fully. Astronomers, Astronauts, Cosmologists and Physicists help us with our lowly position on the knowledge totem pole in that they provide us with further fuel to our fire or thirst for further knowledge. This video highlights the fact that few of us really understand things well enough to be able to pass judgement on it.
Hubble has brought humanity some of the most amazing images detailing and supporting the current position of our world being insignificant in the grand scheme of things. While this may influence many of us to be afraid and sad it leads me to accept that we are on a journey into knowledge and affirms my atheistic convictions.
Posted on May 13th, 2008 by Bob in Misc. Video