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- - I've found some feedback on what is de facto your article. I thought you would be interested in it's evaluation by a someone with a scientific background, Dr. Steven Novella.

The entry of Evolution says it all. It is nothing more than a laundry list of discredited creationist ideas and demonstrably false claims repeated mindlessly from anti-evolution propaganda. Here is a good example, under “Lack of any Clear Transitional Fossils” is written, “Evolutionists have had over 140 years to find a transitional fossil and nothing approaching a conclusive transitional form has ever been found - only a handful of highly doubtful examples of transitional fossils exist.”

This intellectual dishonesty and abject ignorance of this position is astounding. An excellent list of clear transition fossils can be found here on the talkorigins.org site. The Conservapedia author specifically dismisses archaeopteryx as a transitional dinosaur-bird species, an absurd claim I destroy here. In the classic creationist style, the author does not provide evidence for the claims made, but constructs their fiction largely by taking quotes out of context – a style of argument that I feel betrays a literalist ideology. All references from this entry lead not to scientific sources but to creationist propaganda websites.

But my point today is not to refute creationist nonsense (although I never tire of this) but to make the point that there is no such thing as Conservative science or Liberal science. You cannot modify “science” with an ideological label. There is only good science and bad science – and any science that conforms itself to an ideology is by necessity bad science.