Meet Michael Egnor, Belgium’s famous painter….
Oh wait, that’s James Ensor… damn you They Might be Giants!
Well Micheal Egnor is actually one of those intellectually vacant members of the Discovery Institute. He wrote a sour-grapes piece complaining why he wasn’t invited to some evolutionary symposium attended by noted biologist and blogger PZ Myers. You can read his inanity here. Now PZ Myers has the good sense to point it out over on his blog, which is where I got my exposure to this ridiculous piece. One statement in Mr. Egnor’s rant stuck out to me.
“Darwin’s positive legacy to real medical science is non-existent.”
Really Mr. Egnor? I hope you haven’t taken any moden antibiotics, got a flu shot, and I hope that no one you know or love is ever infected by the AIDS virus. Why? because evolutionary biology has been integral to humanity’s triumph over such ills. Of course you’d not know this from scientific papers of the last eight years…