Design of Life

When he spoke at OU, Dembski used a Harvard/XVIVO animation Inner Life of a Cell, with an overdubbed sound track which he had retitled The Cell as an Automated City. When he was called out on the issue, he claimed that he found the animation on YouTube, a rather convenient story which, it so [...]

Science education in Texas

While the Comer controversy continues, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is considering approving an online Masters degree in Science Education offered by the Institute for Creation Research.  The Dallas Morning News reports:
The nonprofit Institute for Creation Research in Dallas wants to train future science teachers in Texas and elsewhere using an online curriculum. [...]

Day four

On day four, there are still well over 100,000 people without electricity in the Metro, many times that number statewide. They opened the Cox Convention Center as a shelter today, but over 300 of its 700 slots were filled with overflow from other shelters. But after Katrina, the idea of a shelter with [...]

Storm damage

My pictures fail to capture the scale of the damage.  One picture here, another there, fails to give a sense of how pervasive the damage is to the trees on campus.  I’m not sure there are any undamaged trees.  The older neighbourhoods around campus are even harder hit – and not only have their trees [...]

More pictures

Felgar Hall oak

South Oval

No handicapper parking

Outside Starbucks (formerly Jimmy John’s) on Campus Corner

Trip onto campus

The trip onto campus this morning was really sad.  Broken trees everywhere.  South Oval is just devastated.  We live in a slightly newer part of town, with younger trees, so I wasn’t prepared for the damage I saw.   It was heartbreaking.

Oklahoma weather

Over half a million people are reported to be without power this morning. Our water treatment plant is apparently without power, and the city is borrowing water from surrounding towns. And now the latest concern – carbon monoxide poisoning from people without electricity trying to heat their homes.  While the ice is probably [...]