As some of you realized, I am at DragonCon this weekend busy in the science and skeptical tracks with many panels. Further, today is a holiday in the US. I was therefore delayed in approving comments, but I am caught up now.

So – just a quick post today before I head out for my last two panels and a trip home.

Ann Coulter has written another piece about evolution. PZ Myers has something to say about it, and he links to a Carl Zimmer piece about it as well. She seems to be recycling material from her previous book on evolution. It is little more than a sequence of factual misstatements and flaming rhetoric. Coulter seems to think that she can win an argument simply by being the best at insulting the other side.

She continues to pretend that her blistering arguments are unanswered by scientists, but this is so wrong it is hard to characterize it as anything other than a lie. Her points have all been thoroughly refuted. She is simply repeated crusty creationist canards and tactics. For example she claims there are no transitional fossils. I have written about this numerous times – you can only make this argument if you ignore all the actual transitional fossils that paleontologists keep finding.

The willful ignorance of this position is astounding, but it does make Coulter’s intellectual approach to this topic crystal clear.