Nick Matzke did an interview with Livescience about biogeography.
Bryan Fischer says evolution must be false because the bible is true. I think he doesn’t go far enough: the world must be flat because the bible is true. After all, the biblical writers did suppose the world is flat. For more information and references on that, see Ed Babinski, “The Cosmology of the Bible” published in The Christian Delusion or Evolving out of Eden.
I blogged on “Who Killed the Electric Car” and now The Oatmeal gives us a firsthand account written as a comic.
Scientists have created an organism with two additional DNA letters. This is the latest and greatest accomplishment on expansions of the genetic code, which have been going on for quite some time now. Incidentally, this also ties in with the evolution / creation debate: when presented with universal genetic code, we evolutionists have a good explanation for why it is almost identical across all species: it was inherited from a common ancestor. Creationists sometimes attempt to explain this by positing that there is only one possible way for life to be. It’s a desperate speculation (how on earth could it be impossible for other materials to be used to create life? Would they find it plausible if I suggested that computers can only be created from silicon?). It is also something we can now empirically prove is false. Given that the “common design, common designer” explanation is also thoroughly discredited, they’ve got no explanation at all for the genetic code, not even a desperate, ad-hoc explanation.
The table of contents for Richard Carrier’s new book is now available online. Can’t wait for On the Historicity of Jesus Christ. My facebook page, Get “Richard Carrier on the Colbert Report!” is doing well, it has almost 100 likes.
