Keith Olbermann – he must not be named?

First it was O’Reilly, now Rush Limbaugh: talk radio wingnuts seem unable to utter Keith Olbermann’s name. Limbaugh said:
We have a montage of this morning and last night, we have Joe Scarborough of MSNBC, John Roberts of CNN, Willie Geist, MSNBC, somebody else on MSNBC, and Nora O’Donnell.
And then went on to play the [...]

Angels and Intelligent Design

Intelligent design proponents like to claim that ID is scientific. In reality, it’s anti-scientific – if you allow the hand of the designer into “science” there is no a priori reason for rejecting design in any system. Is your illness caused by a virus, or is it just the hand of “the designer”? [...]

Intelligent design and archaeology

One of the arguments repeated over and over by intelligent design advocates is the assertion that archaeology is a search for design. Like intelligent design, they say, archaeologists assume design once they have ruled out other possible causes, so why shouldn’t IDists? I have always found that analogy annoying – after all, it [...]

DonorsChoose.org Blogger Challenge

A few weeks ago I wrote about DonorsChoose, an organisation that puts donors and teachers together. DonorsChoose allows people to pick the projects they want to fund. People can review proposals and select the proposals which appeal to them. During the month of October the DonorsChoose blogger challenge is running. Bloggers choose the projects [...]