I hang out online sometimes with a bunch of like-minded fossil-enthusiasts (The Fossil Forum).
Tonight somebody posted this:
Just watched the new this evening and they were talking about a dig going on right now outside of Glen Rose, on the McFall ranch. The news showed the footprints of the therapod and the human prints together. It [...]

Okay, my excuse is that I have yet to participate in a “meme” yet (despite being tagged by several).
The infamous Rick MacPherson of Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice & Sunsets came up with his own little game wherein he determined a set of search terms that would result in his own blog ranking as the top [...]

Because it needs to be shouted out to the world, I am reposting this from The Panda’s Thumb. I find this utterly baffling. How can any American not see the vast impact of science on our lifestyles, our economy, our health, our environment, and our existence?!
Science Getting the Shaft
US Senators Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Susan [...]

Appalled.
That’s the nicest word I can think of to define my feelings about the vote for California’s Proposition 8, which bans marriage between homosexual humans.
As has been discussed all over the digital tubes since last night’s election, the turn against gay marriage was largely funded by the hate and bigotry of the Mormons. I can’t [...]

This comic is a bit old, but it’s just so (agelessly) pertinent right now.

This has probably been around a while. I’ve had this sitting on my hard drive for ages.  But given my earlier post on Sarah Palin’s utter ignorance of Science and this quote about Sarah Palin from Philip Munger on Salon.com…
“I pushed her on the earth’s creation, whether it was really less than 7,000 years old [...]

In one of the single most maddening, ignorant, unfathomably idiotic statements (out of many) I have heard spew through Sarah Palin’s lips, the candidate for the second highest position in the free world uttered a single phrase today that could utterly destroy the progress of medicine and scientific understanding.
In her very first policy speech, Palin [...]

In an incoherent leap of bad logic, John Derbyshire over at the National Review (I know – why did I even bother reading it?) has come to the conclusion that an Obama Administration will kill science (his article title: “Will Obama Kill Science?”).
However, upon reading his incredibly ridiculous argument, it becomes clear that he only [...]

I fear nothing.
No, that is not statement of my own masculine machismo, which I generally lack. In fact, if you were to stick a fuzzy kitten or a baby before me, you would find me near-instantly reduced to fawning and cooing like a 5-year old girl. I’m not ashamed of that.
No, what I mean is [...]

Dr. Jim West has implicitly claimed that because evolutionists often defend the theory of evolution so passionately and vociferously (or as he puts it, with “religious zeal”), then that must mean that evolution is “doctrine” 1. (his post title: If It’s Not A Doctrine, Why Are People So Defensive?).
I hear this argument all the time, in [...]

When you work in a building with lots of blind corners, where people routinely carry noxious chemicals, toxins, carcinogens, animals, and microorganisms through the hallways, it is probably best not to run full speed while watching the geese outside the window.
I’m not talking about myself.

Okay, so let me first state upfront that I am a scientist throughout every level of my psyche. I do not believe in Gods, the paranormal, homeopathic remedies, astrology, magic, UFOs, immortal souls, the chupacabra or any other such nonsense.
That being said, from an entertainment standpoint, I am a huge fan of nearly all science [...]

Today, once again, I witnessed a not-too-uncommon display of ignorance and primitive barbarism in the rural south.
I was driving along a small country back road near my home in North Carolina, listening to a book on CD (no it’s too embarrassing to tell…OK, fine – it was “Twilight” the first novel by Stephenie Meyer about [...]

25 dead in Palestine today.
No surprise there.
It ain’t called the “Cradle of Civilization” for nothing.
The Middle-East is in flames.
But this is only the fuse.
So far the children are only playing with sparklers.
But soon the infidels will burn.
All 6 billion of us.
Just don’t forget to get more duct tape.
The plague is due for dinner at 3.
And [...]

Everyday lately, while listening to the news and watching the world around us disintegrate into war, chaos and malcontent, I see and feel the deception pervading the information fed to us by our government and media outlets. It seriously sickens me. This PDF is a report put out by Rep. Henry A. Waxman to Congress [...]