Conservapaedia, that bastion of idiocy got its arse handed to it when trying to pick fights with scientists over the Long Term Evolutionary Experiment . This is a multi-million generation breeding experiment involving bacteria, that turned up all sorts of interesting things, including some novel characters of the sort the average creationist ( Read more... )

Apparently this bunch of clowns has won a Quality Badge for "Learning Outside The Classroom". Except, as noted by several people, its got a somewhat questionable attitude to science. Its a creationist zoo. You have to dig fairly deep to get to the creationist stuff, and its probably something they aren't allowed to mention too much in their school ( Read more... )

H/T to Pharyngula, as always...

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As previously mentioned Nature published on a couple of transitional flatfishes. The National Geographic uses this as a chance to take a dig at the Discovery Institute. Casey Luskin (a lawyer, not a biologist) is outraged I tell you, outraged that the NG suggests that Intelligent Design is really creationism. No dear, it is. The reason you refuse ( Read more... )

Andrew Schlafly (Phyllis Schlafly's son) recently founded Conservap(a)edia. It is (as you might guess) an alternative to wikipedia because of the "liberal bias" it apparently has.

Dr. Richard Lenski is running the Long Term Evolutionary Experiment (LTEE). For the past 20 years he has been growing a culture of E. coli in a medium where glucose is  ( Read more... )

Professor PZ Myers blogs at Pharyngula (***Warning: This website contains profanity and may be offensive to some listeners. KKMS politely warn us. It'll be the cephalopods won't it?) .
He's a fairly strident atheist, but more importantly he's an evolutionary biologist working on zebrafish development. He also likes fossils, and is generally ( Read more... )

Metro Weird is one feed that everyone should be on. If not for the comedy bylines, then for the stories themselves, everyday tales of naked mountaineers, felons holding up shops with their hats, and most recently a creationist by the name of Chuck Missler. I'm never quite sure where to begin with this nonsense. Let's watch a video.

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Many people think that creationism is largely a problem associated with Christian fundamentalist. This is not true, the Muslims have 'em too. Probably the most famous in the West is Harun Yahya, newsworthy recently for sending unsolicited copies of "The Atlas of Creation" to thousands of researchers and institutions across Europe and America. I've ( Read more... )