Posted by SteveSteve on June 22, 2005 | Comments (3) | TrackBack (1)

Hello, everybody! It's been a long time since I wrote to the Panda's Thumb about my adventures, but I've been extremely busy, and have only now had time to update my journal, after visits to Minnesota, Iowa, Alaska, and Georgia. There's much to catch up on! In my first stop, I visited a small liberal arts university on the western Minnesota prairies, which you'd think would be a quiet place, but appearances can be deceiving…especially when you are a small plush bear with an active fantasy life.

Continue reading  “Steve Steve and the Pirates and Philosophers of the Prairie”

Posted by SteveSteve on May 23, 2005 | Comments (51) | TrackBack (0)

This is a report of my trip to Grand Canyon on May 4, where I assisted NCSE’s Eugenie Scott in her investigation of sightings of a creationist book in Grand Canyon bookstores.

First, though, I gave Dr. Scott advice on her powerpoint talk to interpreters. She had been invited to address them during their annual training session before the Grand Canyon National Park gears up for the summer season.

Continue reading  “My Visit to the Grand Canyon”

Posted by SteveSteve on April 27, 2005 | Comments (14) | TrackBack (1)

As many of you know, I am here in Lawrence, Kansas to cover the Kansas State Board of Education’s hearings kangaroo court on whether Intelligent Design Science should be included in the state science standards.

Since many of you might not have known that there was such a thing as “Intelligent Design Science” (as contrasted with “Intelligent Design Creationism”, which label seems to throw the Intelligent Design Creationists into a tizzy fit), I’ve persuaded one of my arch nemeses, the esteemed legal flak “Dr.” Courtney Kangaroo, to explain it all to us.

Steve Steve: Good morning, “Dr.” Courtney.

Courtney K.: Hi Steve. I heard those quotation marks. I am a real doctor, you know. I have a Ph.D. in Quantum Apologetics from a little place you might have heard of called MIT.

S²: Really? I didn’t know that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology gave out apologetics degrees!

CK: Oh. No. I meant the Marsupial Institute of Theology. It’s in Australia.

Continue reading  “An Interview With Courtney Kangaroo, Part I”

Posted by SteveSteve on April 24, 2005 | Comments (74) | TrackBack (0)

Hi, folks, the last few days I’ve been in Lawrence, Kansas visiting Jack Krebs, the vice president of Kansas Citizens for Science and member of the crew here at the Panda’s Thumb.  Of course, there is a big event coming up in a few weeks (starting May 5), affectionately known around here as the kangaroo court hearings.  At this event three anti-evolutionary members of the Kansas State Board of Education are going to supposedly judge whether Intelligent Design stuff should be included in the Kansas science standards.

But as a warm-up, I attended an afternoon conference Thursday entitled “A Public Meeting on Evolution and Kansas Bioscience,” at the Plymouth Congregational Church in Lawrence.  See this news story from Friday’s news paper.

Jack gave a speech on the theological nature of ID and more generally on why people in Kansas should be concerned about the current situation.  (I’m sure he’ll report on this when he has time.) Of course I volunteered to help in any way I could.  Here’s a picture of me offering some suggestions for one of Jack’s slides.

Continue reading  “Greetings from Lawrence, Kansas”

Posted by SteveSteve on April 15, 2005 | Comments (26) | TrackBack (0)

Greetings to all Panda’s Thumbers!

Recently I had an opportunity to visit the town of Princeton, in lovely central New Jersey[1]. Princeton is called by some the “Berkeley of the East Coast,” and for good reason! There’s a university there, for one thing. And, like Berkeley, Princeton is at one end of the Axis-of-Intelligent-Design. I knew that this was one place that I definitely wanted to see!!! And along the way, I took pictures, so that you could see it too.

So sit back, relax, and enjoy the sights of Princeton: ID capital of the upper Eastern seaboard[2].

My first stop was 112 Mercer St., home of the somewhat well-known physicist Albert Einstein, who worked nearby at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Einstein’s house had a fence so beautiful  that I had to get a picture with it.

Continue reading  “Princeton, NJ: Hotbed of Intelligent Design!”

Posted by SteveSteve on March 31, 2005 | Comments (4) | TrackBack (1)

I am excited to be posting my adventures to the Panda’s Thumb.  I would like to thank Reed for introducing me.  Last week I got to visit him at the Wyatt W. Anderson Lab at the University of Georgia.

Continue reading  “My Visit to the Anderson Lab”

Posted by Reed on March 29, 2005 | Comments (21) | TrackBack (3)

I am here to introduce to you a new contributor to the Panda’s Thumb.

Prof. Steve Steve holds the B. Amboo Chair in Creatoinformatics at the University of Ediacara.  He has been nominated five times (only twice by himself) for the Nobel Prize and has received six Barnes and Noble gift certificates.  He is an J.D.-M.D.-quintuple Ph.D. (biology, chemistry, literature, mathematics, and philosophy).  He has been called the Izaak Walton of information theory and the Ulysses S. Grant of drinking contests.  His dissertation on the mating habits of the rufous-throated creationists of northern Alabama has been called “revolutionary,” “a tour de force,” and “nonstop, bodice-ripping action from the first page to the second page.”

At this time of year, Prof. Steve Steve is normally teaching ten classes, writing twenty papers, and directing Noh theatre; however, he recently received the Walker Prize for Walkabouts and has taken a sabbatical to travel the world exploring nature, academia, and the quality of beer in faraway places.  He intends to send letters of his journey back to the Panda’s Thumb keeping us informed of his adventure.