intelligent design

Who says that evolution isn’t a continuing phenomena? Now, creationists, trying to cut the teaching of evolution off at the knees, are evolving once again.

John McCain has brought some folks to his Arizona ranch to contemplate his vice presidential slot. I think whoever McCain picks will tell us a lot about who McCain is right now. During the 90s and especially during his 2000 primary campaign, McCain was The Maverick.

Now that April is in the books it is time to go back through the starred items in my feed reader. To be honest I really didn’t keep up with the blogging world over the past month but I did catch a few interesting items:

From an interesting op/ed in Newsweek on how the conservative south has changed the face of American politics: "How the South won this Civil War" by Michael Hirsh.

Another failure in the Conservative Religious right wing War on Science.

I have not been someone who has put much thought into the theory of evolution. A few years back (within 5 years) I heard a discussion on talk radio between a Darwinist and the talk show host (I think it might have been Michael Medved). The lingering thought which stayed with me was scientists have no answer to the question of how that first cell came into being.

The way I figure it, I get a free bottle of Jack Daniels every year. Age has a way of diminishing consumption, or at least shifting preferences, meaning I drink far less Jack than I did in my earlier days, but it remains my favorite booze for the occasional celebratory shot.

In a thread about homeschooling (here) that eventually narrowed to a discussion of Evolution, Tman linked to a fascinating essay by famed atheist and brilliant thinker