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About Me

Let's see, I have been active in defending science education against the attacks of antievolutionists for the last 16 years, I am a member of the National Center for Science Education , and the Skeptics Society and am something of a minor expert in the creation/evolution debate. I am a founding member of the McLean v. Arkansas Documentation Project and I volunteer at the Talk.Origins Archive answering feedback questions so feel free to ask me any questions you might have regarding the subject. If I can't answer the question I know someone who can. No manifestos please (keep to one or two things, not a laundry list) and I really am not interested in debating religion (I'm a science guy).
Politically I am what you would call a classic liberal (as opposed to the political correctness pushing socialist types that are often called liberals these days) or a moderate libertarian (the party goes too far IMHO).
As for religion I decline to comment for a number of reasons...
Sites: Playing Chess with Pigeons , Creation / Evolution Locus , Talk.Origins Archive , McLean v. Arkansas Documentation Project
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Fun with critters

Here we have a Ten-lined June beetle (Polyphylla s.) that my uncle found at work and thought I might like to have. What is fun about these critters is that they make a defensive hissing noise when ...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:57:00 GMT

Small World

P. Z. Myers, who lives in Minnesota,  posted a peice on his blog Pharyngula about a pro-animal testing/pro-science rally held at University California Los Angeles. In his post he included a link to a ...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:50:00 GMT

A (slightly embarassing) Darwin day at USC

This past Wednesday (4-15-09) I attended an interesting set of Darwin Year lectures at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (Darwin Today: Evolution and Scientific Thought). The lect...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:03:00 GMT

Iowa Supreme Court Upholds Gay Marriage

This is via my friend Ed Brayton over at Dispatches from the Culture Wars:The Iowa Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Friday that the state must allow same-sex couples to get married. See full ruling ...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:54:00 GMT

A good primer on skepticism and open mindedness

Learn it, know it, live it! [Via Pharyngula]
Posted by on Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:01:00 GMT

Its Playing Chess with Pigeons 1st Birthday!

It was one year ago today (March 1st 2008) that I posted my first blog entry. Thank you to all my readers who have given this blog (Playing Chess with Pigeons, which this MySpace blog is a mirror of) ...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:31:00 GMT

Intelligent design creationism playing the racism card& again

Andrew Sibley, who I recently used as an example of the two faces for intelligent design creationism, has gone on another Darwin was a racist/evolution leads to racism, tear over on Uncommon Descent...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Mar 2009 06:43:00 GMT

U.N. attack on freedom of speech

As reported on the Lou Dobbs program (with an interview of Christopher Hitchens) the United Nations is trying to pass a binding resolution to encourange member states to ban criticisms of religion (es...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:37:00 GMT

The two faces of intelligent design creationism

Over at Uncommon Descent they are taking advantage of the brouhaha over the New York Posts gunned-down chimp cartoon (which many have taken as a racist slur against President Obama) to take their o...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:23:00 GMT

A little pictorial sleight of hand

This is something of a followup on my previous post on bird hips and the place of the sauropods in the dinosaur family tree.In that post I linked to an image of the dinosaur family tree I had found on...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:52:00 GMT