Once More Into the Flaming Pinto, My Friends!

For those who don't know what I'm talking about, let me quickly recap (and then, at your leisure, read this post.) Last November, my article on the evolution of complex features came out in National Geographic. A few weeks later the article inspired a long but baseless attack from the Discovery Institute, an outfit that promotes intelligent design (a k a "the progeny of creationism"). The attack, authored by one Casey Luskin, came in three parts, climaxing in an argument for intelligent design that required me to wire my jaw back shut: "Was the Ford Pinto, with all its imperfections revealed in crash tests, not designed?" I took a lot of time to refute Luskin's various claims, pointing out how he contradicts himself, doesn't bother to consider the actual scientific evidence I wrote about in the article, and accuses me of deceptions I did not commit. And that, I thought, ...