“Intelligent Design” is like a whack- a- mole game– knock it down and it just pops up somewhere else. Here, John Derbyshire does his usual splendid, reasoned, and even good- humored smackdown of the IDers. Why oh why can they not see how “irreducible complexity” is a very dead and smelly horse?
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Small town blues
Prairie Mary has a very good (well, aren’t they all?) essay on the inevitable conflicts that happen when the (relatively) rich and restless move to small towns and begin to throw their weight around. It is happening here too and I don’t have a clue about what you can do about it, save having rural …
Sea Creatures
Courtesy of Peculiar, soon to disappear into the wilderness with his bride for a bit, an astonishing gallery of deep sea life. I was particularly taken with the piglet squid. By the way, it has been PUPPIES who have kept me from blogging much. Three depart this weekend so things (like sleep and typing without …
This SHOULD be true
The Alpha Enviro recently sent me this gem, which he got from a friend: “Ted Nugent on deer hunting. “He was being interviewed by a British journalist. The journalist asked, “What do you think the last thought is in the head of a deer before you shoot it? Is it, `Are you my friend?` or …
Rina and The Skunk
With Steve and Reid posting lately on puppies, I thought I’d share a recent outing with mine. Skunk lore and stink remedies appreciated in the comment section, please! The neighborhood park where I let Rina run in the evenings abuts a city-owned campground and public stables. There’s pasture for the boarding horses and a riding …
Gub’mint Crackdown?
No. Just Blogger weirdness. We’ve been down for a few days, leaving the three of us scratching our heads about how to fix it. All the posts were there, the template, the whole shebang. But no main page. Complaints started pouring in shortly after we went offline. Apparently, two small Balkan dictatorships were crumbling without …
Elephant Eaters of Kent
People in England have always been adventurous. Even before they were human. Thanks to Joe Curran who sent me this BBC piece on a 400,000 year-old elephant kill site in Kent. This is pre Homo sapiens and has been attributed to H. heidelbergensis. It is the earliest elephant kill site in Britain. Nice to think …
Santa Barbara Whale
Inspired by Pluvialis’ post on the finback whale skeleton exhibited at Cambridge, I took this picture of a blue whale mounted in front of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Blue whales are the largest animals ever to have lived on this planet. I have been fortunate enough to see several from boats in …
Overnighter Continued
Blogger limits the amount of material you can put in a post, so lately we have been breaking up some photo-heavy posts to get everything in. This will conclude a post I started last week. Sorry for the break. I was up the next morning to fix coffee, break camp, and head down the hill. …
Cute Puppy Pics
Exactly what I said– no comment on my part necessary!