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Friday, December 31, 2004

Winner of The First Official PZ Myers 'Golden Gould Award' for the Science Post of the Year!

After careful tabulation, then a recount, then the obligatory re-recount demanded by the side that lost. Then more bitching from the side that hadn't won first, won second, but lost the third, fourth, and sixth times, a call from their legal counsel, and a threat of Federal Lawsuit for our non scientific voting methodology, which resulted in a review from the US Department of Standards, Weights, and Measures ...

And the winner is ... DIGIT NUMBERING AND LIMB DEVLOPMENT!!

A fine post outlining the evo-devo of bird limbs/digits in the context of an Answer in Genesis 'Complaint". This post blends many of the characteristics which only a band of sick, geeky, scientific brothers and sisters like ourselves, could find so fascinating. Good science, pictures, and a creationist take down with careful investigative analysis. Thank you all for your votes and comments!

Invertebrate winner of the coveted Spineless Creationist Pandering Award: Spectacular Lower Echinoderms From the Lower Cambrian.

Per usual, comments listing active open threads on Evolution Vs Intelligent Design Creationism will be elevated to the header and you will receive a Gold Star next your name.

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Comments:
#12224: Chris — 12/31  at  10:02 AM
I'd say that wasn't only PZ's best science post, but the best science post I've seen on any blog. Of course, I'm fairly new to the world of blogs, but I can't think of any other science post that contained as much information (that I didn't already know) and expressed it so clearly. Nice work, Dr. Myers.



#12225: — 12/31  at  10:30 AM
This was my first reading of that post, and I agree: Excellent.



#12252: coturnix — 12/31  at  10:04 PM
Although I voted for the pharyngeal arches, I am not a sore loser - whichever post won we are all winners, aren't we? And the digit post is great. Really.

A few years back I took a grad class with Dale Russell. All the other students were paleontologist, I was the only physiologist, and also TA-ing an embryology class at the time.

When we were discussing the dino/bird link (and we even got Feduccia to come and give a seminar that year) all the students (as well as Dale) agreed that the embryological argument was the toughest one to overcome if one believes that birds are modern dinosaurs. I was the only one suggesting that there should be nothing inherently difficult in the identity-switch (the frameshift), but I did not have much to back myself up with, as the Wagner's idea and some other papers have not been published yet at the time. Thus they pretty much stared at me shaking their heads at my craziness. I feel vindicated now.



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