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March 25, 2005

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Posted by Bill

*** Politburo Diktat and World Wide Rant torch Paul from Wizbang's latest science/ideology strawman:

Now that you've read the above, go read article in question and marvel at how it looks remarkably like nothing Paul said above.

For the record, I don't know many evolution "true believers" that don't admit that it's merely a partially proven working theory open to revision. And I thought that I'd warned Paul about basing scientific analysis around an agenda...

*** Immigration: the real divide in the GOP?

But if the ever-more-shaky coalition that is currently the Republican majority is to hold, it will have to survive far worse dangers than Schiavo. The immigration issue is a perfect example of what I mean. I favor legal immigration, and lots of it. I don't favor - in fact, staunchly oppose - the illegal variety we now suffer, which is essentially a method of permitting Mexico to export the results of its horrible socialism to the US, where those losers in the socialist race are treated as serf-labor and exploited accordingly.

*** Emiliana Torrini is your Friday musical break.

(Via who else but Flea)

*** And have you ever had deja-vu?

I have:

ABC first reported the memo as a bombshell that disclosed Republican strategy. Now it says that the memo "discussed a republican bill" and was "distributed to [some] repulbican [sic] senators." Whatever ABC may think of the "politics of the Shivo [sic] case," the network admits that it knows nothing about who authored and distributed the memo.

I have.

Posted by Bill at March 25, 2005 06:48 AM | TrackBack (0)

Comments

"Kinko's a better place to forge documents"

Posted by: karasoth at March 25, 2005 02:11 PM

Has ABC News interviewed anybody on Dirty Harry Reid's staff yet?

Posted by: David at March 25, 2005 08:06 PM

The best book I've seen on the science/ideology subject is The Science of God, by Gerald Schroeder. A man of science and faith, Schroeder clearly lays out the case that science and religion need not diverge in their explanation of the origin of the universe and life on earth. Well worth reading, whichever side of the debate you're on. (I'm going to copy this in the comments of a few other blogs -- no spam intended, I'm just a big fan of this very relevant book.)

Posted by: insomni at March 26, 2005 01:19 AM

Knock yourself out, it's on topic.

Posted by: Bill from INDC at March 26, 2005 08:53 AM

There have been many developments in this story.

See Michelle Malkin's and Powerlilne websites.

Posted by: HS at March 26, 2005 01:11 PM

Why is it that the evolution/creation debate draws so much input from people who know nothing about the subject? I pointed out on Paul's post that he wouldn't go spouting witless maunderings about M-theory, because he wasn't a theoretical physicist. But the fact he's not an evolutionary biologist hasn't stopped him from similar bloviation about a subject on which he knows nothing (stipulating that he is going to redefine abiogenesis as evolution was my first hint that he is a Grade I Clueless Twit).

I have neither the mathematics nor the biology to make meaningful contributions to string theory or the neo-Darwinian Synthesis, but I know enough about both to spot when a layman is talking nonsense.

Posted by: David Gillies at March 30, 2005 06:25 PM