Ping-worthy?
I left my database at home. I'll add this in tonight.
I noticed he left out Creationists from the ID of Pseudoscience and wishful thinkers.
Purposeful? (probably, no need to rile the ranks)
Um, I can name some names here, if anyone is interested. They're mostly based in Washington, DC.
(And as a further aside, fans of the Intelligent Design movement should note that none of the arguments presented in the Science papers goes against anything they believe. Sophisticated IDers do not deny the reality of evolutionary change within species, which is what these papers are talking about. ID denies only that evolution can account for new species, an idea that is not in play here. So far as the human organism over the past 50,000 years is concerned, the egalitarian Left has much more serious issues with evolution than the religious Right has. Prior to that date, the anti-Darwinian Right has all the problems, the Left really none. As a simple Darwinian rightist, I myself can glide serenely past all this illogical nitpicking . . .)
not bad. bookmarkworthy
Why is that bad news? Because for the past 1 percent of that span — 60,000 years or so, or, to put it another way, half a million or so building-block changes — modern humans have been scattered around the land surface of our planet in groups that have occupied widely different environmental niches, and haven’t mixed much with each other. That’s why your average Eskimo doesn’t look much like your average Australian aborigine. Yes, we have bumped up against the R-word — race.
The unhappy thing for the United States is that the problems implicit in results like these are very peculiarly our problems, America’s problems.
The so called American 'melting pot' may be a greater strength than anyone ever imagined.