Ken Miller on Intelligent Design

This is a very long video (almost 2 hours) but quite worthwhile for anyone interested in understanding why intelligent design creationism is bad science. Especially interesting to me were the bits where Miller discusses evidence against irreducible complexity. Miller is a Roman Catholic biology professor at Brown University, and he believes that faith and science [...]

Read Full Post »

fun to shoot ‘em

I heard a rumor today that FOX purchased Al Jazeera. My first reaction was to laugh, but it is not a joke. That is to say, it was not told to me as a joke. Whether it is true is another matter. I don’t know what to make of it if it is true. In [...]

Read Full Post »

Jack Johnson

Saw a fabulous documentary on PBS last night about a boxing match that took place on July 4, 1910 between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries. (I think I got the names right – I remember they’re all J’s.) I didn’t catch the whole story – only the last twenty minutes or so. Johnson was black [...]

Read Full Post »