I TRIPLE-DOG DARE YA

Here we go again. At right you see budding barrister Casey Luskin, prize attack poodle of the Disingenuous Institute, who is now rattling his sabre, threatening Les Lane, a retired virology professor, because...oh my.....what can I say...for using the same photo I just posted on my blog.

Well, it's not an oopsie, Mr. Luskin. As Tim Sandefur (another attorney, mind), points out, you have no grounds for threatening Dr. Lane with legal action. Your threat here is as empty as the threats made by the DI regarding an informational packet accompanying the Nova documentary 'Judgement Day', as vacant as the notion that law professors can put 'Darwin On Trial' and pretty much the sort of vexatious litigation for which Larry Caldwell has become notorious.

In case you missed the point of this post, Mr. Luskin, let me make it clear for you. You and your fellow gang of DI lawyers are a bunch of empty suits. You have nothing that will stand up either in a court of law or in the scientific community, so you endlessly grandstand to the general public, counting on the fact that most laypeople don't know enough about the law or the practice of science to see through your smokescreens.

So, as with Dr. Lane, I'm using the photo above without your permission. And I'm going to continue to use it, unlike Dr. Lane, who graciously removed said photo at your request. I don't care if you don't like it, because, laughable as it seems to me, you're a public figure on this issue, and the public has a right to connect a face to a position that they may find odious. You are free to disagree, and threaten me with legal action, if you like. But you won't , because as Dover proved, you guys don't have the stomach for a real fight.

BOHEMIAN LADY NAILS IT

Wendee Holtcamp is an award-winning nature writer, a doctoral candidate in biology at Rice University and a self-described 'evolutionist.' She is also a committed Christian, and that makes her thoughts on ID especially worth savoring, as when she remarks:

As a Christian myself, I always wonder why the IDers don't think for a moment that maybe God *isn't* on their side when he keeps giving victory after victory to the supposedly "other side"? Although God's ways are mysterious and no one can claim to fully know God's ways, God is certainly on the side of Truth (and I do believe that there is Truth), especially since in the Bible the devil is described as the "father of lies."

Well said, I say. You can check out the whole thing here, and I also heartily recommend this (soon-to-be-a-classic) essay which appears on the ASA (American Scientific Affiliation) web site.

WHERE'S CHUCKY?

This Congressional steroids stuff keeps getting interesting. First Clemens drags his feet, and now his former teammate, Chuck Knoblauch, seems to be in hiding. Knoblauch has yet to be served with a subpoena even though federal marshals have been looking for him for four days. For more info, read here. Curious, no?