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, we already have the Left policing campuses for “wrong” speech (aka “hate speech”), and now the right wants to do it, too. Here’s an “rapid-response” interview of Ben Carson by the odious Glenn Beck (via PuffHo). If you’re liberal, you’ll be either amused or horrified, and if you’re a free-speech advocate, get a load of this at … Continue reading Ben Carson joins the Campus Speech Police
Why do I hate PuffHo? Let me count the ways. One is that they don’t even pretend to look at the news objectively, so all their “news” articles are really opinion pieces. They have an agenda, presumably dictated by Arianna, and they hew to it religiously (word intended, since one of their briefs is to … Continue reading Why I hate the PuffHo
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)
Ben Carson is simply a horrible man, but his odious views are belied by his calm—almost tranquilized—demeanor. The video below shows this morning’s interview of Ben Carson by Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press”. Even though most readers here probably despise the man, you owe it to yourself to listen to the nineteen minutes of religiously-inspired hate from … Continue reading Ben Carson says abortion is like slavery, advocates automatic weapons, suppression of free speech at colleges, etc., etc. etc.
I don’t care how good a surgeon Ben Carson was (and he was reportedly a terrific one), he’s still pig-ignorant when it comes to evolution, geology, and cosmology. And that ignorance—regardless of whether he doesn’t know the facts, knows them but eludes them and is lying for Jesus, or truly believes that the facts support creation … Continue reading Ben Carson on evolution: an ignorant (or duplicitous) Presidential candidate
If we’re to reduce gun violence in America, which I think is ineluctably connected to the easy availability of guns, it will have to be a bottom-up phenomenon. We can’t count on the Supreme Court, which has construed the Second Amendment as allowing a “right” for private citizens to own guns, nor can we count … Continue reading San Francisco’s last gun shop closes; Ben Carson puts metatarsals in mouth again
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”
If this man gets to be the Republican Presidential candidate (and I’ll bet one reader $50 he won’t: first taker accepted), I’ll be overjoyed, because there’s no way Carson could beat any of the viable Democratic candidates. In fact, I’m baffled why he’s a candidate at all. His latest gaffe was made in conversation with radio … Continue reading Ben Carson opens mouth, inserts metatarsals again: says it would be “very dangerous” to register guns
