"I won't fill it. It's my right not to fill it."

[theweaselking]

Target pharmacist refuses to fill birth control prescription.

Religious fuckwits sue University Of California for having an "explaining evolution" site that links to people explaining that religion and evolution don't conflict, and doesn't link to creationists. The fuckwit-in-charge said that this is the "height of hypocrisy for this to be coming from people who claim that they are trying to keep religious instruction out of science class. Duh, I eat poop!"
(The site in question)

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[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

From Prof. Michael Behe's website:

My ideas about irreducible complexity and intelligent design are entirely my own. They certainly are not in any sense endorsed by either Lehigh University in general or the Department of Biological Sciences in particular. In fact, most of my colleagues in the Department strongly disagree with them. (Emphasis mine.)

At least he admits it.

From the article:

"Mr Caldwell told Inside Higher Ed that by linking to religious groups' statements in favour of religion, Berkeley was 'taking a position on evolution and attempting to persuade minor students to accept that position.'"

Uh, yeah. And my high school history teacher's lessons on Buddhism and Taoism during the unit on East Asian history were thinly veiled attempts to indoctrinate us. Hey, newsflash: teaching about a religious viewpoint in a school classroom is not the same thing as espousing that viewpoint.

It bugs me that one of the theology profs at my workplace has to explain this distinction to college students who think that theology = Bible study.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

At least he admits it.

Especially since his arguments are all based on a strawman of evolution (he doesn't allow for the *removal* of parts that no longer server a purpose, and he insists that the structure must serve the same purpose at every step. Neither of these are correct) *AND* every single example he has come up with has been shown to be derived by similar structure (viewable in a fossil or a relative) minus a single change.

Behe's notion of irreducible complexity has been completely, totally, 100% debunked. He's back to saying that "if you found a structure that couldn't be made piecemeal, that would prove design" - which is true, and is, incidentally, EXACTLY WHAT CHARLES DARWIN SAID.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

His "selected publications" aren't terribly impressive, either. Google Scholar turns up some actual scientific publications, but they look like fairly mechanistic biochemical studies to me—I'm far from an expert in biochemistry but it's not the same as biology and I'd have my doubts about a biochemist's expertise on evolution unless they had a substantial biology background.

Talk.origins page on Behe. Wikipedia page, which is the first place I was able to find any indication of his credentials.

Bah.

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

I also love the implication that teaching evolution is some kind of religious thing.

[psyco-path.livejournal.com]

Did he actually say that he eats poop?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

He *is* a creationist, you know.

[anivair.livejournal.com]

So eat . . . never fling.

[toku666.livejournal.com]

I'd like to say I'm fairly terrified of Whoopi Goldberg sitcoms as well.