As you know, your Curmudgeon has been struggling with the new editor here at WordPress, and we’ve also been struggling to restore the old classic editor.  Nothing works.  Oh, we can write — as we’re doing now, but we can’t do links, and we can’t correctly format excerpts from other blogs and articles. So where does that leave us? Well, we can’t keep blogging as we used to.  That’s not much of a catastrophe.  We’ve mentioned before that creationism isn’t what it used to be.  In recent years, there haven’t been many creationist laws introduced into state legislatures — a ..read more

This one isn’t very thrilling, but it’s the best we can find.  It’s at the website of Ken Ham (ol’ Hambo) — the ayatollah of Appalachia, the world’s holiest man who knows more about religion and science than everyone else. His website appears to be totally re-arranged, and it’s a bit difficult finding our way around there.  Anyway, his post from January 1 is titled:  Is Ark Encounter One of the “Best Places to Meet a Good Christian Girl”?  Because of the glorious new software here at WordPress, we’re not even going to try giving you a link to Hambo’s article. If you want to ..read more

  [30-second sound clip] You are about to leave reality and travel into another dimension — a dimension of the mind, a dimension that exists beyond the laws of nature, unknowable by evidence and reason — a wondrous land of Oogity Boogity! You have embarked on a journey into the realm of miracles and mysticism, where your only guide is faith. There’s a signpost up ahead: Next stop — The Drool Zone. Yes, dear reader, the annual drama (which we’ve ignored this year — until now) has reached its climax.  The Discoveroids have arrived at the summit of the list of their Top Ten stories for ..read more

Once again, we visit the website of the Discovery Institute. Their latest, written by Klinghoffer, is titled  <a href=”https://evolutionnews.org/2023/12/stepping-in-it-an-alternative-to-the-academic-wasteland/”><strong>Stepping in It: An Alternative to the Academic Wasteland</strong></a>. As you can see, we’re struggling with the WordPress new editor, so bear with us. That link is amazingly ugly, but it works. Here are some excerpts from the Discoveroid blog article, with bold font added by us for emphasis, and occasional Curmudgeonly interjections that look [like ..read more

Christmas is Monday, which means that the coming weekend likely to be a very slow period for your Curmudgeon’s blog.  Our kind of news has been scarce anyway, and now it’ll be really scarce.  But if we should find anything of interest, we’ll certainly tell you about it. To enhance your holiday experience, we once again link to the Curmudgeon’s acclaimed poem, which is read to children all over the world: The Night Before Christmas Eve. Feel free to use the comments as an Intellectual Free Fire Zone for the discussion of pretty much anything — science, politics, economics, whatever ..read more

Once again we visit the website of Ken Ham (ol’ Hambo) — the ayatollah of Appalachia, the world’s holiest man who knows more about religion and science than everyone else. His new post is titled <a href=”https://answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2023/12/16/galapagos-islands-icon-of-evolution/&#8221; rel=”nofollow”><strong>The Galapagos Islands Are an Icon of Evolution — But Should they Be?</strong></a>  It was written by ol’ Hambo. Here are some excerpts, with bold font added by us for emphasis, and occasional Curmudgeonly interjections that look [<font col ..read more

Your Curmudgeon has been blundering around trying to re-install the “Classic Editor,” but none of the procedures seem to work. So instead of that, we’re using the “Classic Block” feature of the new editor. This might work, or it might not.  Anyway, we’ve been checking the news and the usual creationist websites, and we haven’t missed anything. In the meanwhile, please use this post as an Intellectual Free-Fire Zone. As with all our free-fire zones, we’re open for the discussion of pretty much anything — science, politics, economics, whatever — as long as it’s tasteful and interesting. Ban ..read more

Our friends at the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) have posted an authoritative article about Mike Johnson, America’s new Speaker of the House.  There were many bloggers who posted nearly hysterical articles about him, but we restrained ourselves and posted about him only once — and concluded by saying: “The new Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives appears to be a flaming creationist. Make of it what you will.” There’s not much reason to restrain ourselves any longer. NCSE’s article is <a href=”https://ncse.ngo/how-mike-johnson-helped-open-door-creationism-lou ..read more

We found this one in The Chronicle, a three-day-a-week newspaper in Centralia, Washington. It’s a “Letter to the Editor” titled Is belief in the theory of evolution realistic?, and they don’t have a comments feature. Unless the writer is a politician, preacher, or other public figure, we won’t embarrass or promote him by using his full name. We’re not sure who today’s writer is, because we can’t find him by searching on his name, and the newspaper doesn’t say anything about him. We’ll only use his first name, which is Doug. He’s from Onalaska, Wisconson (or maybe Onalaska, Washington) . Excerp ..read more

Look what we found in the Dallas Morning News. It’s a “Letter to the Editor” titled Plausible and logical, and the newspaper doesn’t seem to have a comments feature. Unless the writer is a politician, preacher, or other public figure, we won’t embarrass or promote him by using his full name. We’re not sure who today’s writer is, because we can’t find him by searching on his name, and the newspaper doesn’t identify him. We’ll only use his first name, which is Bill. Excerpts from his letter will be enhanced with our Curmudgeonly commentary, some bold font for emphasis, and occasional Curmudgeonl ..read more