Restoration ecology versus conservation biology

Writing in the journal Biological Conservation, Truman Young wrote:
The conservation mind set is one of more or less permanent loss; the implicit assumption is that all trends are down, and that our goal is to slow or stop degradation (declining population paradigm) or to maintain the remnants as small fragments of the original (small population [...]

Critical thinking and creationism

In his review of Expelled, Mike Biedler writes:
You’d think that Expelled’s deliberate misrepresentation of the facts, both in terms of movie production and presentation of the scientific evidence, would make me angry. Not so much… So what is making me angry? Honestly, it’s the fact that one year ago I would have fallen for Stein’s [...]

Derbyshire on Expelled

I’m no fan of conservative columnist John Derbyshire, but he’s worth reading on the issue of intelligent design.  Writing in the National Review, Derbyshire comments on the rank dishonesty of the creationist movie Expelled and intelligent design creationism as a whole.  He writes
I think this willful act of deception has corrupted creationism irredeemably. The old [...]