Morlocks and Eloi, oy vey!

Razib and commenters are commenting on this article which appears to be 19th century SF-fantasy repackaged as "serious science" about the future evolution of the human species. Actually, the article is so silly, Razib does not even want to waste time on it and points out only one of the obvious fallacies of the argument, the one about skin color. On the other hand, Lindsay does a thorough and delightful fisking that you may enjoy!

I don't even know in which 'channel' to put this post. I guess it is "biology" but only nominally... as we do not have a "nonsense and having fun with it" channel here on scienceblogs.

Update: John Wilkins adds his 2 cents - and you should listen to him, speciation is his area of expertise.

Update 2: John Hawks and PZ Myers also chime in.

Update 3: Mouse Trap and Darren Naish have their own takes on the story.

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More than a week ago, Razib wrote an unfortunate little post in which he displayed all sorts of poor judgment. Since it's short, I'm going to quote the entire post here, including his updates.
So I'm cruising about Scienceblogs to catch up on my Sciblings and I come across this on Aetiology:
Razib wants us to come up with 10 assertions of 10 words or less which we believe that the public should know about evolutionary science.
ScienceBlogling Razib comments on Republican rising star Bobby Jindal's "very weak understanding of evolution, or, a purposeful misrepresentation"

I suppose you knew that Tesla was a Morlach. In old maps written in Latin, the Serbs living inland from Senj, that is the Lika region, are called Morlachs. I have copies of a couple of those maps around here somewhere.