Entries for April 2005
Notacon in brief
Notacon went well except that the attendance was lower than I had been hoping for. I guess that is something a very young event has to put up with, and I hope they can keep putting this on for long enough that it gathers a following and starts to snowball.
Our talk seemed to go well and be well received. The final cut of the slides is now online. I may well re-use these and/or add more notes to turn them into a stand-alone web resource to point people to, so comments are still welcome and will still be useful to me.
What we are up against
No time to discuss this deeply now, but read and weep: creationist misinformation in a Tennessee diner.
What I will say is this: it wasn't until I moved to the US that I understood how much of a battleground the theory of evolution really is, or how much it ties in with the deep social & political divides across this country. It is frightening to me, as a member of the reality-based community to contemplate how we can fight back against an enemy that shows no concern for those little nuisances called 'facts', without becoming as bad as they are.
[reference spotted by Stanek]