{"id":129,"date":"2008-03-22T09:14:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T14:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/129"},"modified":"2008-03-22T09:14:33","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T14:14:33","slug":"banks-arent-the-only-bankrupt-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/129","title":{"rendered":"Bear Stearns isn't the Only Bankrupt Thing These Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, already, I’ll become the millionth blogger to note the delicious irony of PZ Myers being, well, expelled<\/a> from a screening of the upcoming movie, “EXPELLED!” Ironic not only because of being expelled, but also because, if those that are advancing evolutionary science and tearing down creationism\/ID are beetles (as something with which a student of Darwin might identify), they chose the lesser of two weevils \u2014 Richard Dawkins was allowed in.<\/p>\n

You can’t make this shit up.<\/p>\n

Writing about the politics and antiscience of creation\u2014evolution is easy points. There are things going on all the time, and the cdesign proponentsists<\/a> are just so intellectually and morally bankrupt that fodder for blogging is plentiful, and there really isn’t a shortage of smart people to shoot down all the crap that gets written. (Not that the ID folks have a monopoly on such behavior \u2014 it pains me when a science advocate makes arguments in the same vein, when there is such a wealth of evidence to present \u2014 but lies, whether repeated knowingly or parroted blindly, are just so widespread in the creationism\/ID movement)<\/p>\n

The thing is, the arguments are by and large the same as they have been for a long time. Way back in the USENET days, I was active on the talk.origins newsgroup (active enough that I was nicknamed “Chris” and hold a faculty position at the University of Ediacara<\/a>) and I see things bandied around today in discussions, and it’s the same crap. The same hollow, fallacious arguments, the same lies that keep propagating despite having been debunked long ago. It just makes me tired all over. Facts don’t matter and won’t sway someone not interested in science.<\/p>\n

But, if you’re interested, there is a large collection of links<\/a> about the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, already, I’ll become the millionth blogger to note the delicious irony of PZ Myers being, well, expelled from a screening of the upcoming movie, “EXPELLED!” Ironic not only because of being expelled, but also because, if those that are … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}