[chuck]By way of Pharyngula, we have this lovely article by creationist moron Peter Heck. Heck is that all-too-common breed of creationist whose ignorance about science is only matched by his arrogance about that ignorance. Read the article and see how many misconceptions, errors, and fallacies you can find. Me, I lost count.

Give a listen to our take on the article here.

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[chuck]Uhh, yeah. I’m not sure about this one. Leighton and I watched a video given by a professor about how religion may trace its origins to cognitive processes that evolved to help us sort out complex social interactions quickly. I really don’t know how it turned out, since I fell asleep while editing it.

Not that it’s boring or anything.

The video is here, and the podcast can be found here.

Come back next week, where we’ll discuss something interesting! I promise.

[chuck]The board members got together and made an executive decision: we’re going to hold off on this week’s A.N.N. because there’s so much to talk about. Instead, we’re going to do another Atheist News Roundup where we spend a whole hour tearing apart the stupidity in this week’s news.

And there is a lot of it. Texas wants to grant the Institution for Creation Research the ability to award graduate level degrees in science. Vermont’s legislature has granted homosexuals the legal rights to marry, but the bill may be vetoed by the state’s Republican governor. The Texas school board, led by a creationist dentist who believes the earth is 6,000 years old, is set to change their science standards so that “weaknesses” of evolutionary theory have to be discussed. As usual, nothing is included about the “weaknesses” of, say, quantum mechanics or linguistics — no, curiously enough, only the “weaknesses” of a theory that directly contradicts the Texan simple-minded reading of Bronze-age mythology has to be discussed.

That, and a lot more, this Friday!

[leighton]

WARNING! Spoilers ahead!

Podcast Summary, Episode #7: Evolution and Intelligent Design, Part 2

[chuck]The second of the two-parter, and where we get to the real meat of the matter: evidence supporting evolution that intelligent design cannot explain, and fatal arguments, both scientific and philosophical, against the theory of intelligent design itself. Also, Leighton interrupts my brilliant analysis briefly to add nonsensical comments.

Grab it while it’s hot right here.

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[leighton]

WARNING! Spoilers ahead!

Podcast Summary, Episode #7: Evolution and Intelligent Design, Part 1