Comments on: Intellectual Welfare

By: Silver Fox

Silver Fox — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:26:36 +0000

I downloaded one of their “Teach the Controversy” widgets for my blog, though it’s way down at the bottom.

By: BrianR

BrianR — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:26:08 +0000

Tuff Cookie … yeah, I did see those t-shirts, very clever – I may have to get one.

ChrisR – perhaps I’m being optimistic, but I don’t think this strategy has a good chance in the long run. It is far too easy to demonstrate that they are motivated by religion even though they are claiming not to be.

By: ChrisR

ChrisR — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:38:08 +0000

The thing that gets me is that the proponents of the ‘strengths and weaknesses’ arguments are not at all interested in the ‘strengths’ bit (like…. the theory of evolution neatly and efficiently explains most of the patterns of speciation we see through time and space). It’s all “Ha-ha! It can’t explain this little bit on the margins, so it’s obviously all rubbish!”

By: Tuff Cookie

Tuff Cookie — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:58:49 +0000

Very nice write-up - sounds like good podClast material to me. (Although doing a podcast about a podcast somehow seems a bit off, but maybe that's just lack of sleep catching up to me.) On a more humorous note, have you seen these t-shirts? One showed up on Pharyngula. I'm quite fond of the Discworld-esque one with the elephants, although the turtle is clearly land-based and not seagoing.