Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.
Well, all the headlines from the past several days say “yes,” but every story online appears to be a reprint of a piece by Dave Boucher in The Tennessean, “Ben Carson touts creationism during Nashville speech.” (Don’t papers do their own reporting any more?). At any rate, the Tennessean doesn’t really show that Carson is still a creationist—at least not … Continue reading Is Ben Carson still a creationist?
Ben Carson, former neurosurgeon, Seventh-Day Adventist, and overall ignoramus about science, is now the front-runner for the Republican Presidential nomination. I’m hoping he wins that nomination because he’s a born loser, and Hillary (or whoever) would defeat him handily. But I doubt he’ll be the candidate, for although my opinion of Americans’ political acumen is pretty low, I … Continue reading Ben Carson’s shameful and willful scientific ignorance
When I wrote my post on Sept. 24 dissecting Ben Carson’s ignorance of cosmology and evolution, I realized at the end that the people who would read here it already agreed with me, and that I had spent over two hours basically entertaining myself. Still, at least the problems with his creationist views of the … Continue reading Lawrence Krauss on Ben Carson (it’s not pretty)
I am growing weary of pointing out the stupid things said by Republicans and creationists (there’s considerable overlap), which is like crying, “Look, that lion ate a gazelle!” One gets to a point where it’s neither new nor interesting. But in the interest of documenting the scientific missteps of Presidential candidates, especially when it comes to evolution, I submit … Continue reading Ben Carson admits climate change (i.e., it might be cooler tomorrow than today), and some “microevolution”
I’ve already written at length about Republican Presidential candidate Ben Carson’s creationism (see here), which is even odder coming from a neurosurgeon. But of course we know that among all those who use scientific information, doctors and engineers are among the most likely to be creationists. Carson has also equated homosexuality with bestiality and pedophilia, although … Continue reading More creationist nonsense from Ben Carson: why we didn’t come from a “slime pit of promiscuous chemicals”
