Today’s picture barely needs a description. This beautiful little bumblebee I rescued from drowning in a jar of newly extracted honey, and undaunted by her near-death experience she simply proceeded to gorge herself on the sweet stuff.
With such a bountiful harvest, little wonder she had trouble lifting off afterwards!
So I just listened to the “debate” between PZ Myers and one Dr Simmons on christian talk radio, which PZ links to here. I’m not going to provide any extensive commentary nor even recommend listening to the debate - sure, it is rather hilarious to hear PZ state matter-of-factly that Simmons has just, and I quote, “made stuff up!” - but since stupid MIGHT be contagious I wouldn’t recommend assaulting your ears with the drivel of an obviously extremely ignorant man.
Really all I wanted to say here is that what I found possibly most amusing in the whole “debate” (and I put those ironic quotation marks there since only one side actually provided any factually true arguments, so it was more of an execution than anything else) was that Dr Simmons actually admitted that his whole reasoning’s based on a gigantic argumentum ad ignorantiam. On talking about the workings of the brain, he ejaculates the following pearl of wisdom:
It’s beyond my comprehension that this could come about by trial and error.
Yes, Dr Simmons, I imagine it is.
In his closing statement, he finally resorts to that which he at at least two points in the interview whined that PZ was doing - insults. To his credit he doesn’t level those insults at PZ, but instead slams Darwin with a big fat ad hominem, calling him a bigotted, misogynistic racist. As if those things (were they even true) had any bearing on the theory of evolution at all. It’s especially ironic since PZ opened the whole debate stating that Darwin’s really out of the picture by now, and Dr Simmons desperately tried to save face by claiming “Darwin” is really just a good name to put on the theory because it’s so well known, even though of course he knows that current evolutuionary theory isn’t the same as Darwin’s evolutionary theory.
Hoooo-boy. I think I’ll go read a biology textbook to purge my mind of the obtuse, infantile nonsense I was just exposed to.
science, biology, evolution, intelligent design, pseudoscience
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