Stones and Bones

I became actively involved in the creationist anti-science debate over 20 years ago while the Curator of Anthropology, and Director of Education for the Orange County Museum of Natural History. ******** Disclaimer: Comments are the responsiblity of their author(s). Their opinions, linked materials and comments are not necessarily those of Gary S. Hurd. I reserve the right to delete any material for any reason.

Thursday, March 29, 2012

I am almost really done with my Joe Kuhn paper

Really. I have not posted for weeks, and I appologise my ass off. But I had a 44 page draft that had to get squished into a 10 page final....

Monday, March 12, 2012

Sherry Rowland died last night.

Sherry Rowland, the theoretical chemist who predicted that CFCs were going to destroy the Earth's ozone, died last night from complicati...

Saturday, March 03, 2012

Discotute "Dissent From Darwin"

I had this in the "draft" file. I am still grinding on Joe the Surgeon, but I offer this as an alternate bit of creationist de...

Monday, February 27, 2012

This might explain conservative reality denial

I read with great interest, and a bit of dread, this essay by Chris Mooney, "The Republican Brain: Why Even Educated Conservatives Deny...

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

More Speciation- but they are still just bacteria

The single-celled Bacteria and Archaea constitute the largest, and most successful forms of life on Earth. And, they have been for at least ...

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Other critiques of Joe the Surgeon

Joseph A Kuhn died July 20, 2014. Joe Kuhn, MD wrote an extended bit of creatocrap that I have been debunking- bit by bit. They are; Part ...

Friday, February 10, 2012

Parallel Universe: bibliolatry v. reality

A few months ago I wrote a short item about Mail-oder Theology Degrees. My friend Richard Hope left a comment, It's like there's a ...

Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Joseph A. Kuhn, MD. Part 2.

Joseph A Kuhn died July 20, 2014. I am fraking “Dissecting Darwinism” by Joseph A. Kuhn, MD, published in Baylor University Medical Cente...

Freaking Weird Stupid Shit

I posted a reply to a twit creationist a few weeks ago. It was entitled "A British creationist asked." I used a public domain pho...

Oh goody: Bruce R. Booker's Degrees and Affiliations

So, a few days ago I received an email from Rabbi(?) Booker. It seems he had been trying to get in contact to let me know he was unhappy wit...

Monday, February 06, 2012

Joseph A. Kuhn, MD. Part 1.

Joseph A Kuhn died July 20, 2014. Some creatocrap was smeared on the Internet today. (Yes, what a surprise). The bit I examined was from t...

Monday, January 09, 2012

More about Nazi Darwinists

A nitwit on the Washington Post comment section wrote: "Darwin’s theory is “godless” and that such thinking is linked to Nazi atrocit...

A good read in the morning

I hope to go fishing today. But, this was a good news item to wake up with on my screen; "Resurrecting extinct proteins shows how a m...

Friday, January 06, 2012

Another Steve leaves the Dark Side

Last October I noticed that Professor C. STEVEN Murphree wrote a letter-to-the-editor published today in the "Daily News Journal"...

Friday, December 23, 2011

A British creationist asked;

A creationist recently posed to me the notion that "evolution" could not "explain" the following features of humans, whi...

Monday, December 19, 2011

Rabbi Averick and the origin of life

Rabbi Moshe Averick writes a very right-wing, creationist opinion column for an on-line magazine for right-wing Jews (there are some) calle...

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Dismissing "catastrophic plate tectonics"

A wonderful website with recent data on the marine geological system is Exploring Ocean Tectonics from Space. It augments everything I ...

Thursday, November 17, 2011

This caught my eye, and you should read it too!

Allen MacNeill is a professor of biology at Cornell University. He has a blog which recently made the following comment regarding new specie...

Friday, November 11, 2011

Oops Redux

The other day I wrote a short response to a foolish bit of creationist fluff published on-line by the Johannesburg, SA Times live . That pie...

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Oops

The other day, I wrote a reaction to a comment posted in the Johannesburg Times LIVE , South Africa. I titled it "Cutting edge or bleed...

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About Me

Gary S. Hurd: I received a doctorate in Social Science (emphasis in Anthropology) from the University of California, Irvine in 1976. For the next 10 years I was a medical researcher and professor of psychiatry leaving the Medical College of Georgia in 1985. I held numerous adjunct appointments and returned full-time to archaeology, my first interest. I have received honors for teaching and research and involved dozens of undergraduate students in published research.

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