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Skeptic Summary #186

Lamarck, abortion, Expelled and Ben Stein and more!

An Uncommon Descent into Lamackism - Devolution of evolutionary theories.

Using abortion as an art medium - This project should have been aborted long ago.

Editor’s Choice: Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed! (Part 2) - The gift that keeps on giving.

From The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) pages “Expelled Exposed” comes the contest “Set Ben Straight.”

In promoting the creationist propaganda film Expelled, Ben Stein managed to stick his foot in his mouth over and over again, issuing what seemed to be a ceaseless stream of ignorant, offensive, and just plain daffy claims. Here’s your chance to set Ben straight. Send your favorite claim to setbenstraight@ncseweb.org along with a refutation. We’ll post the best for all the world to see. And five lucky entrants will receive a year’s subscription to Reports of the NCSE along with their choice of a book from NCSE’s shelf — including such useful books as Mark Isaak’s The Counter-Creationism Handbook, Eugenie C. Scott’s Evolution vs. Creationism, and the AAAS’s The Evolution Dialogues: Science, Christianity, and the Quest for Understanding. But you only have ten days, and a wealth of silliness to examine, so act now!

Follow the link to the rules. This might be fun for someone here and a chance to do SFN proud!!!

Sunday: Our chat host may be returning to work on May 4th!

Wednesday: Ricky was absent. We had a pretty long discussion about Cuneiform because we sometimes have to let Cuneiformist show off his PhD. We talked about Semites and Sumerians and deciphering the languages of those long ago times. If I hadn’t been sick, and drawn extra and unexpected duty, I might remember other things about last week’s chat. It must have been a good one because it lasted for two-and-a-half hours… That’s how I figure it.

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Kansas vs. Darwin, directed by Jeff Tamblyn.



“Tamblyn’s film is important because it allows us to see the politics and religion behind the hearings — to see it in the creationists’ smirking faces, to hear it in the condescending tones of their emotional attacks, and to witness it in Pedro Irigonegaray’s righteous anger at what was being done to the education of Kansas schoolchildren in the name of God.”

— Dave W.

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