And Science Magazine's top breakthrough of 2005 is...

Pretty ironic timing. Evolution is the top science in the same week that ID is ruled not to be science at all.

Talk about rubbing it in a bit!

I know Charlie Wagner will be disappointed. He was hoping this would be the year for Nelson's Law.

Not bad for a crumbling, failed theory in crisis, teetering on the verge of collapse, desperately being propped up by an effete and obsolete priesthood intent on hiding the increasingly self-evident truth from an increasingly savvy public whose eyes and minds have been opened by those selfless crusaders for Truth, Science and the American Way at the Discovery Institute!

Just a non-substantive quibble on the lamprey story, but didn't flight evolve four times? Insects, bats, birds and pterosaurs?

Quibble, quibble.

Quibble.

Dang! Now there's another irreducibly complex system of rearranging immune receptor genes for which we have no detailed evolutionary pathway! We better go get Calvin's and Hobbes' box from the attic. Worked pretty well last time...

Comment #64212 Posted by Russell on December 22, 2005 04:45 PM (e) (s) Not bad for a crumbling, failed theory in crisis, teetering on the verge of collapse, desperately being propped up by an effete and obsolete priesthood intent on hiding the increasingly self-evident truth from an increasingly savvy public whose eyes and minds have been opened by those selfless crusaders for Truth, Science and the American Way at the Discovery Institute!

Just a non-substantive quibble on the lamprey story, but didn't flight evolve four times? Insects, bats, birds and pterosaurs?

And you oughta see Lenny, um, take off after one of my well-flung double-cheese pizza...!

And you may also wish to consider seriously careers with better long-term economic prospects than pizza delivery*.

Not that it can't be entertaining at times.

But then you don't have to be a pizza delivery person to be entertained by the hilarity of IDers' reaction to Dover.

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* (Or installation of prescription lenses into diving masks, for that matter!)

It is pertinent now to educate the PT on the Ellerbee Test. This is how you tell if Lenny's pizza guy has sprinkled oregano or "oregano" on your Pizza. Take any Grateful Dead live album (dont worry they released 6.023x10 to the 23rd powers worth of them) order your pizza, listen to any track and you'll notice that nobody in the band is playing the same part of the same song at the same time! Then have a slice or six of pizza, play the track again and you'll be astonished how gifted and together they sound...they can even sing! In fact Lenny's pizza guy says Lenny enjoys his pizza so much that he's confessed to have fallen in love with Carol! Can a PT nuptual be far behind?

oooooohhh ....>>>the pro from dover
Sounds mysteriously Old Testament to me...Imagine the gnawing and the gnashing and the self gflagellation and the gslapping in the face and the gkneeing in the family jewels when Lenny hit the ground after so much magical musing in the Music of the Sphere's.Still if Carol eat some of that pizza followed by some fermented fruits..... kosher of course......

Justawriter:

Don't forget "ballooning" spiders, flying squirrels, flying fish (okay, maybe these last two are more of a glide, but still), dandelion seeds and other airborne seeds and spores... umm... hmm. Am I missing anything still?

Single-celled organisms were "flying" long before any of those. Not much of a controlled flight, though. ;>