Crackpot Index Alert: “The other night I was brooding, as usual, on the Shakespeare authorship question…” Dear God, someone tell this poor man to get outdoors once in a while.

This year’s Christmas Message comes from the Dark Side. And Amy Welborn, who reminds us why Christmas shouldn’t be all warm and fuzzy.

Judge Jones has issued a verdict: After a searching review of the record and applicable caselaw, we find thatwhile ID arguments may be true, a proposition on which the Court takes noposition, ID is not science. We find that ID fails on three different levels, any one of which is sufficient to preclude a determination… Continue reading

Things are not as they seem. It now appears that Richard Sternberg, about whom I blogged here, is not the martyr he has been making himself out to be.

Richard Dawkins refuses to live up to the stereotype painted of him by conservatives who like to cite him as an example of how acceptance of Darwin’s theory necessarily rules out belief in God: Is atheism the logical extension of believing in evolution? They clearly can’t be irrevocably linked because a very large number of… Continue reading