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March 5, 2009 by graham

Propping up the straw men, exploding Andrew Marr

Andrew Marr, former BBC politics editor, amongst other things, has written a piece for the BBC about "The danger of worshipping Darwin". Now, as if that wasn’t enough to raise red flags in the heads of all those who accept evolution through natural selection as being the current best explanation for how life as it [...]

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January 16, 2009 by graham

Not even wrong

There’s a story in the Grauniad to day about the prevalence of Young Earth Creationism amongst undergraduates (link, via Stephen Law). Such views are less unusual among UK students than you might think. In a survey last month, more than 12% questioned preferred creationism – the idea God created us within the past 10,000 years [...]

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February 27, 2008 by graham

On freedom of speech

I am, as you'll be aware, many things. Slayer of Dragons, baker of muffins, programmer, occasional scribbler, amateur photographer, cynic, lover of the weird and wonderful. I'm also, I'd like to think, a reasonably good scientist (Physics was my mistress before Computer Science; we still keep in close contact and send each other nostalgic letters [...]