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06.26.08Bobby Jindal - Why Science Majors Are Just As Irrational as Everyone ElseA while back I expressed my dismay over the lack of science majors and scientists in the US Congress. However, if such science majors were like Louisiana Governor (and GOP Vice Presidential prospect) Bobby Jindal, it would probably be best if we had as few of them as possible. In an interview with CBS's Face the Nation, Jindal - who graduated with honors in Biology and Public Policy from the prestigious Brown University - implies that he believes that Intelligent Design is among the "best thinking" and that "the world has a purpose and wasn't created by 'accident'". You can ...
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05.10.08Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Refutation Part II - 30:01 to 60:00Here it is, Part II of my grand, time-wasting refutation. (Here's Part I and Part III if you're interested) 31:22 - A cell could not have been the result of Darwinian evolution because it is a machine of at least 250 perfectly ordered proteins, each of which has to work to maintain a lifeform. Therefore there must be an intelligent design to make something this ordered and precise. That's assuming that proteins have all-or-nothing function, which is COMPLETELY false. There are countless mutants of even just one protein and different mutants of different proteins have different catalytic efficiencies. Most mutations don't even ...
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05.10.08Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Refutation Part I - 00:00 to 30:00So somehow I made it my mission to refute every argument made by this piece of crap, per the notes I had taken down on my post "Liveblogging Expelled: NIA". The horror! Here is Part II and Part III of my grand exercise in poor time management. 00:42 - Ben Stein brings up the example of Dr. Richard Sternberg, who didn't "tow the party line" and agreed to publish an article by IDer Stephen Meyer. Sternberg was subsequently forced to resign. According to the Biological Society of Washington which had to bear the shame of that particular article being in their publication, Sternberg ...
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05.05.08Liveblogging Expelled: NIA (AKA I Just Saved You Masochists $10)Stay tuned for a comprehensive refutation (probably after midterms). Here is, minute by minute, basically all the arguments that Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed makes. Please note that A) I'm simply stating what the movie is saying in the following in most of the entries, not that I actually believe this shit, and B) these are approximate times. 00:42 - Ben Stein brings up the example of Dr. Richard Sternberg, who didn't "tow the party line" and agreed to publish an article by IDer Stephen Meyer. Sternberg was subsequently forced to resign. 04:05 - Stein challenges Michael Shermer, using the moniker of "academic ...
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05.05.08Expelled Part II - “My grandpaw did NOT come from a monkey!”[DISCLAIMER: The sentiments expressed by the author do NOT necessarily reflect those of the Bruin Alliance of Skeptics and Secularists or any of her affiliates. Reader discretion is strongly advised.] Retarded Fiction #2) Evolution by means of natural selection is not only implausible, but has never actually been proven. Really, Stein? Both of these delicious-looking specimens were originally bred from ferocious wolves. The next time you see any domesticated animal, fruit, or vegetable, remind yourself that practically everything you see in the produce aisle came about through minute genetic changes sustained over thousands of years. Here are just a few of the tremendous phenotypic changes ...
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05.04.08Which substance smells worse, cow manure or horse manure?[DISCLAIMER: The sentiments expressed by the author do NOT necessarily reflect those of the Bruin Alliance of Skeptics and Secularists or any of her affiliates. Reader discretion is strongly advised.] This was the rhetorical question I posited when a fellow skeptic asked me what I considered to be my least favorite part of Ben Stein's new crockumentary, "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed". [edit: See if you can find a picture of the Virgin Mary in one of these piles of animal feces! ] Indeed, the whole film reeks unabashedly of animal excrement. I can scarcely point out which portions ruined my appetite the most, ...
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