

"No, We Can't Even Discuss Design." This extended infomercial for the Mathis/Ben Stein movie "EXPELLED" declared that On December 16, Media consultant Mark Mathis had an opinion piece in the West Side edition of the Albuquerque Journal titled The Smoking Gun: the footnote in "Design of Life" which is referenced in the callout for the "Unlocking" image STILL REFERS TO THE ORIGINAL HARVARD ANIMATION!īattle of the Opinion Pieces in West Side Journal. While the book was altered at the last minute to use Discovery Institute images from "Unlocking the Mystery of Life" in place of the Harvard cell images,ĮRV, Peter Irons, and Afarensis teamed up to show that Dembski HAD planned to use the Harvard material originally. In November, ID stalwart William Dembski tried to wheedle his way out of being caught using a Harvard/XVIVO animation of the cell, without permission, in his talks.Īlong comes Tara of the Endogenous Retrovirus Blog (ERV) with news that Dembski's new ID book, "Design of Life," ALSO was written to make illegal use of the Harvard video. New "Design of Life" book shows Dembski's Designs on Harvard Video. Laura, "Do the Right Thing!" Log in and order a copy today! NOVA's Judgment Day DVD is on sale at PBS. There you have it - a one-decade-old summation of a two-decade-old correction John McMasters Technical fellow The Boeing company Seattle, Washington As an aside,Īnyone who hasn’t read Steve’s wonderful books should. High-speed photography and advances in computational physics. Of the rest of the story and there is more to come thanks to the miracles of Who was apparently some sort of engineer. Thus the culprit is finally named: Sainte-Lague, Magnan’s lab assistant SAINTE-LAGUE a cette conclusion que leur vol es impossible.' Insectes les lois de la resistance del'air, et je suis arrive' avec M. 'Tout d'abord pouss'e par ce qui fait en aviation, j'ai applique' aux On page 8 of the introduction, one finds: Including half a dozen xerox copies of portions of the text of the book Le Volĭes Insects (Hermann and Cle, Paris, 1934) by the famous entomologist August Follwoing publication, however, I got mail. Right vintage, so I wrote that in my article without naming AckeretĮxplicitly. Jacob Ackeret - a famous name in supersonic aerodynamics. I was told by a very reputable source that he thought that individual (who wasīadly misrepresented subsequently by the 'press') was the Swiss gas dynamicist I too had tried toįind the name of 'The aerodynamicist' who did this to us. Still appears to be a correct account of the 'Didn’t the aerodynamicist prove Scientist entitled: 'The Flight of the Bumblebee and Related Myths ofĮntomological Engineering' (Am. Starting this urban legend appeared in 1934:Ī long time ago I wrote an article for the journal American

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The original "Science says bumblebee flight is impossible" story is pretty hard 'It's scientifically impossible for the bumblebee to fly,' he toldĪ crowd in the small town of Newton. The Guardian (UK) reports on December 6th that " Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas who mixes folksy charm with bedrockĬhristian conservative views, likens his rise to the aeronautics of theīumblebee.

Huckabee Resurrects Bumblebee Urban Legend. To read more about this somewhat merry holiday tale." Monster arrived and shamed the school board into backing down. School board, but that was before the Church of the Flying Spaghetti It appeared that this bonehead move had the support of a majority of the Mentioning evolution by name for the first time are under consideration. The Daily Kos reports on December 26th that " Efforts were afoot recently on the Polk County School Board (in the Tampa,įL area) to begin teaching the "concept" of intelligent design in scienceĬlasses as an alternative to evolution, at a time when new state standards By Dave Thomas : (Help fight SPAM! Please replace the AT withįlying Spaghetti Monster Saves Florida?.
