Comments on: ID Infects the UK

By: Quibbler

Quibbler — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 00:43:18 +0000

At school in the UK, I did study ID and other evolution and Big Bang “alternatives”. But it was in my Religious Studies class, not science. RS is a requires subject until age 16 in the UK.

–Q.

By: guthrie

guthrie — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:08:53 +0000

Tom Fish- if you havnt tried any British beers except Bass, you have to come over here to try them straight from the cask. They really dont travel very well in bottles.
There is “the campaign for real ale”, CAMRA, who have lists of pubs selling real beer in the UK. Unfortunately, total consumption of real ale is falling, but there are lots of breweries, and supermarkets usually have good stocks of bottled ales, but as I said before, you really need to try nice fresh striaght out the cask ales.

I’ve seen many people point out that Attenborough is well liked by most of the British population, and he should be wheeled out as often as possible to say that ID is bunk.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:09:06 +0000

Mark, I don’t always remember to follow that rule…. perhaps unfortunately.

-cvj

By: Tristram Brelstaff

Tristram Brelstaff — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:31:29 +0000

I think the most significant aspect of the Horizon program was that David Attenborough was seen to be arguing for evolution and against ID. Politicians and non-scientists, who might find it easy to dismiss the opinions of Dawkins as those of an anti-religious extremist, will find it much harder to do the same with the much-loved establishment figure Attenborough. In the past, I have got the feeling that Attenborough underplayed the evolutionary aspects of the wonders that he showed in his programs (maybe I am being unfair to him), but it is really good to see him now using his considerable influence when it matters.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 04:13:34 +0000

Yeah, that’s why my rule is that extreme web sarcasm must be accompanied by an emoticon. I see you follow the same book.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 04:01:52 +0000

Ooooh, careful Mark, you’re getting as sarky as cvj there!

-cvj

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 03:25:50 +0000

Sorry NL. Occasionally I lapse into a little known language called English. I’m trying to remove such confusion from my writing and have succeeded for the most part, except for the odd slip like this one.

The next step is to curb my use of multisyllabic words and ramp up the frequency with which I use the word “like”, in order to complete my assimilation into American society.

By: NL

NL — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 03:05:06 +0000

Fantastic …what…? beer

By: Paul Valletta

Paul Valletta — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 22:50:00 +0000

The Horizon programme:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/war.shtml

had a good overall interesting overview.

What about this horizon programme of a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/ghostgenes.shtml

This has some mjor implications for Darwinism?

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:36:28 +0000

I have had many of these Tom. One problem I have is with the carbonation. the closest I find in the US are the cask-conditioned ales, some of which I can get in Syracuse. I like the beers you refer to, for example Goose Island and Three Floyds’, but for my tastes they don’t compare to a decent pint of, for example, Tetley’s Ale (I use this one just because it is very common and well-known), that one can get at many pubs.

This is my real point: I feel that it is actually a great time to be a beer drinker in the US right now and I can find good beer somewhere in most towns. However, in England, one can find good beer within a block of wherever you are in most towns, and walking randomly into a pub will most likely be OK, whereas walking randomly into a bar here will not likely lead to interesting good drafts.

Mostlly though, I was just getting in a cheap dig