August 3 Link round-up

The big news this week is that Ball State University's president made an unequivocal statement on the non-place of Intelligent Design in science education.

Blog posts of interest, mainly for the comments!

• Ball State alumna Jessica Bluemke blogs about it on The Friendly Atheist at Patheos.
• Larry Moran gives the Canadian academic view on Sandwalk.
• Richard Dawkins's site reprints the SF Gate story by Tom Coyne (no relation to Jerry Coyne) and links to the original in SF Gate.
• The comments after the Huffpo piece are a hoot!
• Inside Higher Ed:  Taking a Stand for Science
• Chronicle of Higher Education: Ball State U. Bars Teaching of Intelligent Design as Science
• Jerry Coyne was interviewed for The Christian Post.  
• The Christian Post:  Ball State University Denounces Intelligent Design, Keeps Professor Accused of ID Bias (warning: annoying prosletyzing video loads)
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The local paper's comment section continues to be trolled by creationists and idiots:

• July 31  Intelligent Design Removed from BSU Class (675 Facebook Shares)
•  July 31:  President Gora calls Intelligent Design Religion, Not Science, which also reprints the statement.  There are over 550 Facebook shares.
• August 1:  Ball State Fumbles Handling of Hedin Case Whiny professor fears faculty will have to do their jobs now  (375 shares)

For comparison, the Huffpo piece has 944 shares, and the latest local story about Ball State being a good deal for the money has zero Facebook shares so far.  So apparently people are paying attention.  I wonder how many re-shares these stories have gotten.


Video of the Week, Saul Becomes a Christian (Atheist Bible Study):
He had to do a second take, which means he was even drunker than usual while reading the Children's Bible. I literally laughed out loud in the middle of this one! My brain says "hey, he's really not that funny" but then I laughed anyway (especially after about 5:20).