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.<\/p>\n
So – just a quick post today before I head out for my last two panels and a trip home.<\/p>\n
Ann Coulter has written another piece about evolution. PZ Myers has something to say about it<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n 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<\/a> that paleontologists keep finding.<\/p>\n The willful ignorance of this position is astounding, but it does make Coulter’s intellectual approach to this topic crystal clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creationismid"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t