Comments on: Will Anyone In Alabama Speak For Evolution?

By: Charles J. Slavis,Jr.

Charles J. Slavis,Jr. — Sun, 16 May 2010 12:24:49 +0000

People in Alabama stopped evolving right after they won the national championship over Texas. They need to evolve in order to recognize evolution.

By: Woody Tanaka

Woody Tanaka — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:10:41 +0000

“The American people have stopped blindly accepting the claims of scientists a long time ago,”

And, instead, blindly accept the words of a bunch of ancient, ignorant, mostly illiterate, barely civilized goat herders and the mad followers of a man too foolish to keep himself off a Roman tree…

By: Blake Stacey

Blake Stacey — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:00:00 +0000

Because, of course, scientific investigation had nothing whatsoever to do with discovering what a harmful dose of radiation might be. Nope. Nada.

Man, wasn’t life great back in the day when the American people obeyed scientists without question? Like when the whole state of Tennessee threw a festival in honour of John T. Scopes because the biologists said that evolution had really happened? Oh, for the days of glory past.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:02:38 +0000

Jon – not so much ‘scoff’ as just shake our heads in bewilderment. Not at the fact that there’s such a wide variety of views, nothing wrong with that, but that so very, very many people a) buy into some of the crankier ones b) are prepared to go to extraordinary lengths to defend their position c) feel so threatened by people who don’t share their views they they actually go to those extraordinary lengths d) can get as far as enforcing them with the rule of law.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 13 May 2010 11:16:54 +0000

85 years later we’re still trying Scopes, and we’re still convicting him. This is why other countries scoff at the US, for our rampant superstition and blatant dismissal of evidence.

Glad I live in the northeast.

By: Terry Trainor

Terry Trainor — Thu, 13 May 2010 09:52:39 +0000

That depends on what you mean by “evolution”, Carl.
If you mean ‘living things change over time’, then yes – every teacher in the state stands up for that fact, as do all parents in Alabama and every othert state.
If you mean do they blindly accept pronouncements claiming Common Descent, then no – few out here believe that, because the evidence is sadly lacking. In the first book you authored on the side bar here, for instance, you have that nice creature on the cover. In the Amazon description, you hail it as a link in the chain from aquatic life to terrestrial life. The truth is, of course, that since that discovery quadraped tracks have been found that pre-date this creature, negating the claim that it was a ‘transitional’ form at all. And so it is – and has been – with all such claims of evidence for common descent.

The American people have stopped blindly accepting the claims of scientists a long time ago, Carl – somewhere around the time that “safe” X-ray machines were in all the shoe stores and used on everyone that tried on a pair of shoes! People have, sadly for you, become far more sophisticated than they were back then -

[CZ: Terry, life does not evolve like a chain, and so the chronological order of the oldest *known* tetrapod trackway and the oldest *known* tetrapod fossils does not negate their phylogenetic position. See this blog post for an explanation why.]

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By: Brian Too

Brian Too — Thu, 13 May 2010 00:27:16 +0000

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