Use of space

In Trinidad there are a lot of squatter communities on “the line” – after the railway was shut down in 1968, people built houses on the former rail line.  Nonetheless, this was done after the railways were shut down.
Things are a little different in Bangkok, it would appear…
Courtesy Canadian Cynic.

Are government employees required to remain neutral on illegal activities?

From the Austin American Statesman [H/T Joshua Rosenau]
[Texas'] director of science curriculum has resigned after being accused of creating the appearance of bias against teaching intelligent design.
Seriously?
Comer was put on 30 days paid administrative leave shortly after she forwarded an e-mail in late October announcing a presentation being given by Barbara Forrest, author of “Inside [...]

Why we need to take IDists more seriously

It’s easy to make fun of cdesign proponentsists without a systematic study of the species. It’s easy to dabble – drop by UD every few months to read something stunningly bad. It takes real stomach to pay close attention to them, but without brave souls like James McGrath, we would be so much [...]

Sealing the deal

Cdesign propontentsist Guillermo Gonzalez was denied tenure at Iowa State University last May.  The reason given was his lack of scholarly publications and failure to attract grant money.  His supporters contend that he was denied tenure because of his support for intelligent design.  They have now threatened to sue
The news conference scheduled for Monday at [...]

Dembski replies

At long last, Dembski has finally bothered to reply to the XVIVO plagiarism/copyright violation issue. Abbie addressed the broader issues pretty well. In short: when Dembski spoke at OU he used the “Inner Life of a Cell” video. The original narration had been stripped out and replaced with what Abbie called a [...]

John Howard out!

Australia’s pro-Iraq War, anti-Kyoto Accord, George W. Bush allied Prime Minister John Howard conceded defeat in Australia’s General Elections. He also conceded that it was very likely that he would lose his own seat in Parliament. At long last, a favourable result in an election.
The BBC’s Nick Bryant, in Sydney, said Labor [...]

Perfectly phrased

Tonight on Countdown Keith Olbermann called the George W. Bush Presidential Library “the creation museum of Presidential libraries”.  Perfect.

The Design of Life

The long-awaited and much-hyped update of Of Pandas and People is finally out. From UD.
The Foundation for Thought and Ethics has just published The Design of Life. This definitive book on intelligent design (ID) comes as a shot across the bow to dogmatic defenders of Darwinian orthodoxy. Written by two key ID theorists, [...]

Dembski at OU – the video

Matt Dowling has posted the video of the Dembski talk: parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
PZ’s comment on it was “The man can drone on“; Abbie said he was a really bad speaker.  My thought at the time was “he’s so much more entertaining a speaker in this context than he was at church”.  In [...]

Chavez and religious freedom

The right wing in America devolves into fits of apoplexy at the mere mention of Hugo Chavez.  And while I’m no fan of his, he seems to have more respect for the rule of law than does the current American administration so beloved by the same right wingers.  So it’s highly amusing to see the [...]