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Is Ablettogenesis a smooth or crunchy process?
Gary Ablett Sr. is truly a paragon of the modern age. An AFL football star, a public figure who speaks out against drug use, and now, revealed for the first time ever in the Herald Sun newspaper...
View ArticleNew YouTube video – Is Intelligent Design Science, Stephen C. Meyer?
I’ve finally made another YouTube video! This one directly targets a video that the Discovery Institute recently released featuring Stephen C. Meyer going on and on about the scientific nature of...
View ArticleI guess I’ve made it as a blogger now?
Well, it depends what you mean by “making it”. I would consider that to be being taken seriously by the people you want to reach out to and communicate with, so I’m not sure I’ve achieved that lofty...
View ArticleRobert Sheldon, ID proponent, defending the arsenic bacteria paper? Oh dear God.
You’ve got to be kidding me – Robert Sheldon, Uncommon Descent blogger and rocket physicist, has come out with a post on The Procrustean, his personal conservative political blog, defending the...
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Monday Science Link – QualiaSoup’s excellent science communication videos
Today’s science link is the YouTube channel of QualiaSoup. Science and critical thinking communication can be tough through the medium of text. Sure, you can have a few pictures in there now and again,...
View ArticleThe Discovery Institute cares not for the stability of the academic economy
This gem from Antievolution.org forum member Doc Bill was particularly brilliant, I thought: The DI [Discovery Institute] is all about credential inflation. How many times have you read, “Hey, Louis...
View ArticleSome preliminary thoughts on developing a scientific form of intelligent design
Yes, you read correctly. No, this blog hasn’t been hijacked by Casey Luskin, nor is this an early April Fool’s Day prank, nor have I acquired a severe brain injury. Intelligent design, as a cultural...
View ArticleIf Casey Luskin wants an ID dialogue parody, I’ll give him an ID dialogue parody
Intelligent design-inspired hip-hop wasn’t the only thing of note I found in a recent trawl of the now-defunct blog ID Arts. Oh no, I stumbled upon this gem written by the Discovery Institute’s very...
View ArticleI’m contributing marrow and bone to The Panda’s Thumb!
Some extremely exciting news: I’ve been offered to become a part of the team over at The Panda’s Thumb! For those unaware, The Panda’s Thumb is the single greatest evolution-defending/intelligent...
View ArticleHow To Reclaim A Derogatory Nickname, with Michael Egnor
The Novellatron1 – the skeptical, alien-made robot also known as Dr. Steven Novella – has many detractors in the worlds of pseudoscience and antiscience, but none that I would call his nemesis: other...
View ArticleWhile I was gone… (aka. Having compound eyes isn’t all it’s cracked up to be)
Really, truly, I didn’t mean it. Life gets busy, you know? Er, I mean, the Men-in-Black arrested me and wiped my memory; my cat ate my laptop; the Tasmanians invaded; the Internet in Australia was shut...
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Tabletop Transitional – An irreducibly complex pile of monkeys
There are so many great webcomics out there that every time I mention another I feel as though I should have already brought your attention to it. Scenes From A Multiverse is no exception. It’s...
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Joining the team at Vibewire Youth Inc.
That’s right, selected articles from Homologous Legs will be appearing every second Tuesday on the community blog of Vibewire Youth Inc., an Australian non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting...
View ArticleAm I an evolutionary ideologue?
Regular readers of this blog may know of “Will”, a frequent commenter on my posts about evolutionary biology and intelligent design who seems to disagree with absolutely everything I say. Some would,...
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Episode 48 of The Pseudo Scientists: Electrical avalanches, the transit of...
The Pseudo Scientists – Episode 48 In this episode of The Pseudo Scientists, the official podcast of the Young Australian Skeptics, Elliot, Richard, Belinda and I discuss the transit of Venus,...
View ArticleEvolution, emergence, reductionism and James Barham’s bioessentialism
Sometimes I get sidetracked from what I think are more important topics of discussion to things that are arguably less consequential. This is one of those times. So, instead of writing about convergent...
View ArticlePaul McBride reviews “Science and Human Origins”– SPOILER ALERT, it’s not great
Auckland University of Technology PhD candidate Paul McBride has admirably published a 6-part review of the Discovery Institute’s latest self-published book, Science and Human Origins, which I...
View ArticleAn epic end to the Zimmer/Klinghoffer chromosome fusion saga
As my patience for the Discovery Institute is at an all-time low, it’s heartening to see someone completely eviscerate their arguments. I mean, it happens all the time, but it’s particularly satisfying...
View ArticleOpen up my spine and plug me in again
It’s now officially a holiday period for me (for some curious reason my university is giving everyone a two-week mid-semester break – but no one’s complaining), but I’m still busy as hell with multiple...
View Article“The Designer’s Detritus”– my latest Nature Education post on ENCODE, junk...
I said I’d tell you when it was published – and it’s been published! Somewhat surprisingly, I was asked by my friend Khalil to write up my thoughts on the whole ENCODE project/junk...
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