As usual, I'm way late to the party. PZ alerts us all to a fantastic e-mail conversation. Required reading for this week, if not this month! Best I've seen in a long time - here's the scoop:
Anyway, go and read it for yourself! The language in the e-mails is just hilarious! Lenski so pwn3d Schlafly, I couldn't stop reading. That a guy like Schlafly would so willingly embarrass himself like that is beyond my understanding.
I think I have now finally understood what "irreducibly complex" really means: a statement, fact or event so simple it cannot be simplified any further, but still too complex to be grasped by a creationist.
And no, it's not polite to make fun of Andy's name if you're German!
Sigh - and I only got into this fun because I was procrastinating trying to track down every single one of my co-authors ever to be on a paper with me. I need a signature on the "authors' contribution" from every one of them for every one of my papers to add to my "habilitation"...
- Richard Lenksi publishes PNAS paper on how E. coli evolved the ability to use citrate as energy source.
- Conservapædia's Andrew Schlafly, a lawyer with a bachelor's degree who teaches history and economics to homeschoolers, asks to see the raw data of the paper.
- Lenski offers to send anyone the bacteria, if s/he can make sure they're treated properly and promises not to scoop him!
Anyway, go and read it for yourself! The language in the e-mails is just hilarious! Lenski so pwn3d Schlafly, I couldn't stop reading. That a guy like Schlafly would so willingly embarrass himself like that is beyond my understanding.
I think I have now finally understood what "irreducibly complex" really means: a statement, fact or event so simple it cannot be simplified any further, but still too complex to be grasped by a creationist.
And no, it's not polite to make fun of Andy's name if you're German!
Sigh - and I only got into this fun because I was procrastinating trying to track down every single one of my co-authors ever to be on a paper with me. I need a signature on the "authors' contribution" from every one of them for every one of my papers to add to my "habilitation"...
Posted on Wednesday 25 June 2008 - 15:53:04 comment: 0
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