PZ Myers Demolishes Discovery Institute Idiot Johnathan MacLatchie

Clip from a 51 minute video of PZ Myers Q&A Session in Glasgow.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=115DdMmp2Bw

This idiot is Johnathan M, his whining found on Evolution News here:

http://www.evolutionnews.org/2011/06/colliding_with_the_pharyngula_047281.html

It seems he is claiming that HOX genes are evidence of intelligent design, not evolution, shown in this excerpt:

Hox Genes
Myers then progressed into a discussion of Hox genes, and their role in the regulation of Drosophila development, pointing out that one can find homologous Hox genes ordered in the same way in the chromosome of the mouse and Drosophila fruit fly. I have always tended to view the argument for common ancestry as being quite weak here. Such instances of similarity can surely be explained with reference to common design. And, at any rate, the conservation of these Hox genes and their utilisation in different ways in different organisms perhaps ought to be taken as suggestive of teleology or some kind of front-loaded design.

The 2007 paper he references: Universal Genome in the Origin of Metazoa, makes no such claim of "some kind of front-loaded design".

God, my biology background is woefully out of date, but it's not hard to see this DI bullshit. Of course, after that excerpt, he blows out bullshit that wasn't aksed to PZ Myers.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Evolution
• Creationism

[Tunnelfish2]

As for MacLatchie, I've seen the same expressions on his face as I would see on a used car salesman who thinks he can bullshit you into buying a piece of shit.

[Alexdurrant7]

@AngelicHeretic1 Nah, he just doesn't suffer idiots.

[AngelicHeretic1]

Wow... never knew how much of an asshole PZ Myers was...

[77Totems]

um ah um he's a creatard alright.

[THEHARMONIKZ]

LOL. I lost count of the er but um's, I think those breaks in concentration were merely as a result of his brain trying to manage two holes at the same time. Thank fuck PZ was there to control the issue before the poor guy regurgitated anal fluid.

[resistanceunion]

The problem with creationists is that they put on their Jesus glasses and only read papers that indicate problems of evolution in the title ... Even if you wrote total blullshit in those papers they would not look in other sources too check if they are true or tested .. They just stick too it

[Atriviality]

What is the bet that MacLatchie never actually read those papers? Just from my experience people like him are usually spoon fed the arguement then march off armed with ignorance. Like a suicide bomber who doesn't know he is a suicide bomber.

[Kawabunga02]

Some christians just have no shame.. whoring themselves out for jesus.

[uriituw]

The guy's a retard.

[TheTomtompiper]

I only recently caught PZ's work, and am catching up. Thanks for posting this.