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Monthly Archives: December 2005
Happy Holidays
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, … Continue reading
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Was Dover Inevitable?
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.
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More Quotes From the Dover Smackdown
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 … Continue reading
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Mike Argento On the Dover Decision
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 … Continue reading
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What’s the Legal Term for Ass-Whuppin’?
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, … Continue reading
The Discovery Institute Weighs In On Dover
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 … Continue reading
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Kitzmiller v. Dover Decision
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, … Continue reading
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Alexander the Great and Abu Ghraib
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 … Continue reading
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Smurfette Explains ID
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 … Continue reading
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DarkSyde and Time
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.
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