Please forgive the rather generic title of this post. It might have been better to spell it out: Merry Christmas and a happy New Year, and happy Hannukah, happy Kwanzaa, joyous winter solstice, joyful Dong zhi, blessed Advent, St. Stephen’s, and St. John’s days, holy Holy Innocents’ Day and happy Watch Night, yummy feasts of […]
After following the Dover Panda trial and reading the judge’s decision, I was engaging in some Monday-morning quarterbacking, and pondering whether it might have turned out differently.
Some more quotations from the Dover trial decision (part 1 is here): The real money quote is in judge Jones’s conclusion, p. 136: The proper application of both the endorsement and Lemon tests to the facts of this case makes it abundantly clear that the Board’s ID Policy violates the Establishment Clause. In making this determination, we […]
The incomparable Mike Argento, the H.L. Mencken of the Dover Panda trial, regales us with his take on the decision in his latest column It’s a smackdown. This ruling should consign intelligent design to the scrapbin of bad ideas and finally permit the fanatics who push it - the disingenuous drones of the Discovery Institute - […]
I’m only about two thirds of the way through judge Jones’s ruling in the Dover Panda case, but it’s getting late, and I’ve just downed a celebratory bottle of not quite the cheapest champagne they had at the liquor store, so I’m not really in any shape to make snarky comments. I’ll just present some […]
A Discovery Institute press release whines: SEATTLE — “The Dover decision is an attempt by an activist federal judge to stop the spread of a scientific idea and even to prevent criticism of Darwinian evolution through government-imposed censorship rather than open debate, and it won’t work,” said Dr. John West, Associate Director of the Center for […]
Judge Jones has rendered a decision in the Dover Panda trial. I haven’t had a chance to read the entire 139-page document yet, but here’s a fragment from p. 64: After a searching review of the record and applicable caselaw, we find that while ID arguments may be true, a proposition on which the Court takes no […]
Those who do not remember the past, yadda yadda yadda. Will Durant reminds us what war was like in the Assyrian army, in the 18th-7th centuries BC: The loyalty of the troops was secured by dividing a large part of the spoils among them; their bravery was ensured by the general rule of the Near East […]
Smurfette Explains ID Customer: Hello. I wish to complain about this so-called ’scientific theory’ what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very establishment. Salesman: Oh yes, ‘Intelligent Design’. What, uh… what’s wrong with it? Customer: I’ll tell you what’s wrong with it, my lad. Its vacuous, that’s what’s wrong with it! Salesman: No, no, uh… what we need […]
DarkSyde shows us what the world would look like at different speeds. If you liked Aron-Ra’s “Who was your great100 grandpa?” article, you’ll love this one. H.G. Wells’s time traveller only traveled 35 million years. Pah. What a wuss.
