2013

Okay, due to technical hassles, we missed the Fri nite frite last week, but whaddayaknow, if it isn’t Halloween. We can’t do a spook frite because the Darwinian atheists beat us to it (at least one of them believes in them, and he isn’t the only one either). Believing in them ruddy spoils the fun! Here’s something to contemplate between the gaggles of kids showing up for treats, while you munch popcorn shrimp: First venomous crustacean found The blind “remipede” liquefies its prey with a compound similar to that found in a rattlesnake’s fangs. It lives in underwater caves of the Caribbean, Canary Islands and Western Australia, … The venom contains a complex cocktail of toxins, including enzymes and a Read More ›

Recently I came across a fascinating biography of Lord Kelvin over on the creationist Website, crev.info. That article gave me the idea for an interesting hypothetical question, which I’d like to put to evolutionary biologists and other defenders of Darwinism. If Professors Jerry Coyne, Larry Moran or P. Z. Myers want to weigh in, I’d be delighted. Darwin’s biggest problem in the nineteenth century: there wasn’t enough time for his theory of evolution to work First, a little bit of background. Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection had numerous critics in the nineteenth century. By far the most formidable of these critics was Lord Kelvin (1824-1907) (pictured above, portrait by Sir Hubert von Herkomer, Glasgow Museum, image courtesy of Wikipedia). Read More ›