1. Richard Dawkins in the Time 100

Comment #37147 by Greg Laden on May 3, 2007 at 1:24 pm

If you have a problem with Behe being asked to write this (and you damn well should!) then consider writing a letter to Time!!!

It's easy to find the contact link on their site.

2. Happy 66th Birthday, Richard Dawkins!

Comment #27689 by Greg Laden on March 26, 2007 at 6:30 am

Richard,

Happy Birthday. I've written you a short song and a long limerick Well, OK, there is no such thing as a long limerick ... so it's actually a perfectl-length limerick ..

Here: http://gregladen.com/wordpress/?p=559


May you always enlighten the open-minded and annoy the benighted!

3. Happy 50th Birthday to PZ Myers!

Comment #24798 by Greg Laden on March 8, 2007 at 4:08 pm

There once was a dragon from Morris,
Who's fiery breadth was our chorus
Intelligent designers, god simps and whiners
all burned to a crisp right before us.

4. Intelligent design is a science, not a faith

Comment #17012 by Greg Laden on January 10, 2007 at 4:42 am

There is little new here. But the last paragraph demands comment. Here I quote from the Discovery Institute's famous Wedge Strategy document:

"The proposition that human beings are created in the image of God is one of the bedrock principles on which Western civilization is built. Its influence can be detected in most, if not all, of the West's greatest achievements, including ... sciences.

Yet a little over a century ago, this cardinal idea [that humans were created in the image of God] came under wholesale attack by intellectuals drawing on ... modern science. Debunking the traditional conceptions of both God and man, thinkers such as Charles Darwin,... portrayed humans ... as animals or machines....

Discovery Institute's Center… seeks nothing less than the overthrow of materialism and its cultural legacies."

I've shortened this a lot, but feel free to check the original to make sure I have not altered the meaning! (links can be found on a recent post on my web site gregladen.com).