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Conservapedia collides with reality

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The flagellum that propels the organism is thought by ID advocates as something that is ‘irreducibly complex’.  Turns out there is new evolutionary news about E. coli.  This time some scientists MSU have been running an experiment since 1988 and watched natural selection at work.  (Read the artical, it’s pretty cool)

The guys at Conservapedia were crying foul:

He demanded that Lenski “post the data supporting your remarkable claims so that we can review it.” Lenski responded politely at first that as far as he could tell, the relevant data Schlafly wanted was in the paper, which Schlafly had not bothered to read closely. When Schlafly repeated his demands–and as the discussions on the Conservapedia site veered to accusations of Piltdown-Man-level fraud–Lenski wrote a barbed reply…:

From the reply:

I tried to be polite, civil and respectful in my reply to your first email, despite its rude tone and uninformed content. Given the continued rudeness of your second email, and the willfully ignorant and slanderous content on your website, my second response will be less polite. I expect you to post my response in its entirety; if not, I will make sure that is made publicly available through other channels.

Follow the links to the posts and have a laugh.  Seems like a microcosm of what happens when facts disagree with conservative thought.

Hat Tip: Crooks and Liars

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  1. …why are there still monkeys? lol.

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    p>That was great. In other news, July 1 was the anniversary of Darwin and Wallace “shifting the paradigm” heralding the advent of the evolution revolution.

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    p>http://www.wired.com/science/d…  

  2. Off topic but dovetailing nicely:

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    p>Did anyone this Christian Conservative news agency’s unfortunate use of the auto-replace function? Via Science Blogs’ Dispatches From the Culture Wars:

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    This is absolutely hilarious. The American Family Association has a policy at its new outlet, OneNewsNow, never to use the word “gay” but to replace it with “homosexual.” And that works absolutely perfectly until they write an article about an athlete whose last name is Gay, as in Tyson Gay, the fastest man on the US Olympic track team. And then you get this:

    Tyson Homosexual was a blur in blue, sprinting 100 meters faster than anyone ever has.

    His time of 9.68 seconds at the U.S. Olympic trials Sunday doesn’t count as a world record, because it was run with the help of a too-strong tailwind. Here’s what does matter: Homosexual qualified for his first Summer Games team and served notice he’s certainly someone to watch in Beijing.

    “It means a lot to me,” the 25-year-old Homosexual said. “I’m glad my body could do it, because now I know I have it in me”….

  3. I understand they’re going to open a tv network showing only family-friendly classic television.

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    p>At the top of the stack is the Flintstones, wherein the theme song promises the viewer “a homosexual old time”.

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