Myers claimed that the point of his talk was that recapitulation (in its Haeckelian sense) is incorrect. But to claim that this is what I was arguing against is to fundamentally misunderstand what I wrote.
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Let's say you had no opinion on evolution but were simply presented with a video of this exchange. What would it tell you about the character of the individuals involved and the respective strength of their positions?
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By painting a false picture of monolithic evolutionary biologists on one hand, and snake-handling young earth creationists on the other, Novella and his ilk build a straw-man to advance their obvious goal.
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Thought crimes have filtered down from academia into the workplace. Regardless of what you think of Dr. Turek's views, that he should be fired merely for having them is alarming.
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Textbook publishers have resuscitated long-debunked claims that the coccyx, appendix, tonsils, and many other functional organs are "vestigial" -- and they propose teaching these myths in the classroom.
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Kevorkian was the hero of the recent hagiographic film You Don't Know Jack, starring Al Pacino as the thanatologist license-revoked doctor.
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One would have thought the outcry after Icons of Evolution would have been enough to send a message to textbook publishers to stop using these inaccurate drawings as evidence for evolution. But it wasn't.
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