The ICR has conceded defeat and given up its quest to issue MS degrees here in Texas:
Now, with the federal ruling against ICR, the Texas government may mandate that any private sector college, even those that accept no government funding, may be regulated by the THECB,
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However, please know that, while ICR’s legal battle is over, we will not retreat from other public efforts to fight the “Dragon” and his minions.
Sorry, but I had to snip out all the crap about how not letting them piss on the furniture is discrimination. You can read the whole thing here.
Evolution has been caught in the act. Scientists have discovered a group of yellow bellied three toed skinks in colder areas of Australia have more or less abandoned egg laying and are now giving live birth.towards live birth.
Their counterparts in warmer areas of Australia continue to use eggs as a means of reproduction.
From the National Geographic:
Along the warm coastal lowlands of New South Wales, the yellow-bellied three-toed skink lays eggs to reproduce. But individuals of the same species living in the state’s higher, colder mountains are almost all giving birth to live young.
Only two other modern reptiles—another skink species and a European lizard—use both types of reproduction.
The loons are determined to take over Texas with State Rep. Berman of Tyler introducing a bill that would allow The Institute of Creation Research to grant a Master of Science degree in creationism: State Rep. Leo Berman (R-Tyler) proposed House Bill 2800 when he learned that The Institute for Creation Research (ICR), a private [...]
Isn’t it just the cutest thing you’ve ever seen? “It” is a baby Tuatara, a kind of reptile whose lineage goes back to the dinosaurs. One was recently was found on the mainland of New Zealand recently after being gone for 200 years.
I know it probably makes me a bit of an oddball, but I really love lizards & could not resist sharing this photo of an albino lizard from Flickr: Lula, originally uploaded by m4de.
Did you know that Charles Darwin was an abolitionist as were other of his family members and that it may have motivated his research into natural selection? Science historians Adrian Desmond and James Moore have compiled compelling new evidence which reveals Darwin was passionately opposed to slavery and this was the moral impetus behind his [...]
Ben Stein apparently accused Roger Ebert of refusing to review Ben Stein’s propaganda film Expelled. Stein is no doubt regretting that accusation now as Ebert has slapped a big ole red “F” on Ben Stein’s forehead. In the film, Ben Stein asks predictable questions, and exploits an unending capacity for counterfeit astonishment. Example: Scientist: “But [...]
Or in the words of Adam of Daylight Atheism: …the age of reason is also an age of wonder. The devotees of superstition and pseudoscience do not know what they are missing. In grasping after fool’s gold, they have missed the true vein. The universe is a grander, more majestic and more beautiful place than [...]
That a Raven could figure out on it’s own how to pull up a string with meat attached to it is not surprising at all to me. When I’ve gotten the chance to look at one closely I’ve always gotten the sense that they were looking right back at me. They just give off this [...]
