Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 5:52AM | by Otter 
Nenad Stevanović shared on G+ this amazing and educational timeline of evolution by Ethan Hein.
Fantastic work, beautifully rendered and understandable.
Best use of Wikipedia of the month.
Monday, September 5, 2011 at 5:41PM | by Otter Intelligent design exists because of a lack of knowledge, a positive bewilderment. There's no real "knowledge" there: the "proof" that the flagellum could not evolve through natural processes amounts to some complicated mathematics that we might call the mathematics of wonder, a numeric description of incredulity.
But of course science always ought to begin with wonder: it should never end there.
Friday, November 19, 2010 at 6:48AM | by Otter “The bottom line is that the real purpose of this lesson was not to teach, inform, inspire or promote independent thought. The purpose was to inoculate. There is no science going on here, not even a retelling of a former curiosity about how the world works. The answer must conform to a particular reading of the Bible, and the question will be molded to fit the necessary answer. The superficial subject matter is irrelevant.”
Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 8:42PM | by Otter My friend Touchstone and I met on a Christian homeschooling forum. Over there we got into lots of conversations with Young Earth Creationists [YECs] and Old Earth Creationists [OECs] and Theistic Evolutionsts [TEs].
In one memorable exchange, radiometric dating and its reliability came up. Together we were trying to explain the basic science involved, in layman's terms but hopefully with some intelligence and accuracy.
Touchstone's bright idea: Radiometric Popcorn.
I've asked him to weigh in here with a presentation of radiometric dating and radiometric popcorn.
Watch for it: it's worth waiting for.
