Daily Archives: July 2nd, 2009

Madeleine Bunting, fifth-rate accommodationist

Really, just when you think the hopper of stupidity has emptied itself for the day, something happens to fill it back up. This time it’s the ever-reliable Madeleine Bunting and her minions. Over at the Guardian, Bunting reports on an accommodationist conference at Lambeth Palace, residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Her [...]

Almost done: are science and faith compatible?

The data say they aren’t, but Chris Mooney tweaks them a bit to claim the opposite.    See here, here,  here,  here, here, and here (in order). (NOTE:  By “tweaking” here I meant “interpret”; I am not of course saying that Mooney fiddles with the data.  Apologies to anyone who construed it that way.)
Here are the [...]

Pat Buchanan makes a monkey of himself about evolution

Pat Buchanan has been pretty much an idiot all along, but he really put his foot in it in yesterday’s column on the falsehood of evolution.  Relying heavily on the book The End of Darwinism: And How a Flawed and Disastrous Theory Was Stolen and Sold, by Eugene G. Windchy, Buchanan makes the following blatantly [...]