[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for your kind reply and your encouragments!

What is really "new" to the debate lately is that the same thing really does seem to be happening to the evolution side of this as happened to Dan Rather. It is a new and exciting twist, and another reason to praise the internet as a way to really disseminate information. I think it is also why Bush won the election. Lies just do not have the legs they used to.

In other words, for me the story here is that the debate (fight) has spilled from the confines of the dark and controlled auditorium out into the broad dailight of the street. Many of the combatants are rather embarrassed by the now obvious puppet strings dangling from their bodies.

I agree. The big story is that conventional media (and in this case, science journals) can no longer avoid critical inquiry.

It wasn't so very long ago that one could not easily locate a subject, an author - do his own fact-checking. The internet has changed our basic attitudes by empowering us to look behind the curtain.

[WildTurkey]

It wasn't so very long ago that one could not easily locate a subject, an author - do his own fact-checking. The internet has changed our basic attitudes by empowering us to look behind the curtain.

The internet has empowered one to bypass basic scientific principles and prove your point based on the false science spouted by some kook selling DVD's.