Hi new ERV readers!

Good to see you here. Happy moving day!

Welcome Abbie. I wish you a long and prosperous future on this new blog!

Hey Abbie, great to see you back. Bookmarks changed. x

Crap. Now I have to do something about that list I was compiling — the debunkings of Michael Behe's The Edge of Evolution. Lots of stuff from the old ERV was there.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy your new digs. Rock on! KTHXBYE.

Welcome! Worried for a few hours there . . .

Nice to have you back.

MacT

Hi! Good luck at your new SciBlogs home!

It's about time you got into SB. Congratulations.

Erv, you're banner need's an apo'strophe before the 's' in 'Gods own image.'

I hope the new site lets you kick anti-science ass even better than you did at the old one.

Well good to see you here. Any chance there was any hanky-panky in the old ERV's deletion?

You have made a few ..um.... non-friends over the past year. Of course that would mean some level of competence from them.....

I'm not exactly a "new" reader I've been dropping in occasionally for a while but I'm going to become a regular, starting RITE NAO.

BTW, xqs me but I'm not a biologist. What is "gag, pol, and env"? Genes, I presume? What do they do?

YAYYYYYYY. You are so gneiss.

Good luck in the new digs Abbie. I'm a former lurker from the blog, glad to see you made the move okay.

Looking forward to more lolz in serious academic discourse,

Creed

Welcome! I've never heard of Blogger f'ing up like that, but, hey, if you wrote well before, you'll continue to write well (and you did write well before).

Enjoy the new quirks of MT! It's fun!

Woohoo! Glad to have you back! Time to reset my RSS Feeds, I suppose.

Sweet...are you going to be the first lolspeaking ScienceBlogger?

Wow, so there's actually two whole atheists in this scarily Christian state... I'd begun to wonder. Ha, they don't stand a chance, two us, we have them out numbered. :)

I'm a new reader. I'm looking forward to reading your blog, but I'm really sad about the war on apostrophes. The correct and judicious usage of language is one of the things that separates us (atheist evolutionists) from many of them (believing creationists). So I'm sad about that. (Full disclosure: I was an English major, and I write for a living.) It's also going to make it hard for me to read your blog without cringing.

But read it I will. You are already bookmarked, and I'm ready to go!

Oh hai! Whew... I can has ur blog agin!

Meh... Google Reader has decided to call the new ERV "(title unknown)". OIC why... scienceblogs is giving a 404 for the RSS (and the Atom) feed. I no can has RSS?

I'd gotten all caught up in the expelled and virus post I'd forgotten the fitness stuff you've done. Hope you find time to post some more of that now and then.

Yay for shiny new home! I can't get the RSS feed working either, but I presume that the web elves at scienceblogs are working on it - right guys?

By the way, though, my Google Reader has all the old posts back to Feb 4, 2007 saved. U can has dem if u wants dem.

Welcome to the SciBorg! I read a number of your posts at the old site that were linked from here, and I really like what you have to say, despite the lack of apostrophes (and use of commas where there should be semicolons). Expect me to become a regular -- you have been warned.

I'm also curious about the rightward lean of comments here, behaving as though they were nested although they are not. How many comments will it take to reduce one to an inch-wide, very long string or go off the page completely? I really think a leftward lean would be more appropriate. ;-)

And no sooner do I post and the rightward lean is gone. (I will miss the numbers; perhaps you can get PZ to help you get them back without the lean.)

ALL UR BLOGZ R BELONG 2 US!

Welcome (home) Abbie.

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/1717/ervphoenixcv9.jpg

A pheonix arising from the ashes

Woah - as a fellow grad student in biology (though I am finishing my 2nd year) I'm uber impressed you find the time to keep a science blog. I keep a personal blog, but I couldn't imagine devoting the energy to a science blog...

Sweet...are you going to be the first lolspeaking ScienceBlogger?

No fukin wai! w00t!

http://scienceblogs.com/drugmonkey/2008/04/welcome_erv_w00t.php

seems all the fellow lurkers of "old erv" are coming out, so i'll nip out of the woodwork and wish ye a hearty hello too.

Welcome!

A fellow Okie on SciBlogs! It's about time! :D

I've been checking your blog for a while. Glad to see you moved over here (I'm not a fan of Blogger). Now to go change my bookmarks...

What ho! I'm something of a regular Pharyngula reader, and I think I'll add this blog to my favourites too in an attempt to keep up to speed with that sciencey stuff, and the imbecilic rantings from the religites and ID whores. Not sure how I'll get by in a world without apostrophes though. I imagine it will feel a bit like living without paper clips.

OMG!! It's so exciting to see you here on Sciblogs!

Congrats. ;)

Hey, if there are any diggers here,help spread the word!

http://digg.com/general_sciences/Atheist_Scientist_Expelled_From_Intern…

Hey, I'm glad you're still about - I was sad when I saw your blog on blogger got axed, and ran around looking for where the heck you went. Arnie is easily the most adorably destructive dog I've seen.

Shall immediately sign up for RSS for this blog.

Can't see what the picture of Arnold Swarwarchenegger is. Too dark. Explain? or, better picture?

Welcome aboard, Abbie. I hope you're vindicated over at Blogger, but in the meantime, have fun. I wasn't a regular reader, but knew you by reputation, and I'm glad to see you here. (Too bad Derek Lowe and Phil Plait won't be joining us any time soon...)

(Just watch out for Tara's loyal opposition over at Aetiology -- she's got some hardcore raving lunatics that she tolerates over there, and since you're in a similar line of work, I suspect you'll be a target too...)

No amount of concern trolling will cause me to stop using that acronym.

The SB readership's primary skills are concern trolling, bedwetting, and sanctimony. That brings me to this:

Just watch out for Tara's loyal opposition over at Aetiology -- she's got some hardcore raving lunatics that she tolerates over there, and since you're in a similar line of work, I suspect you'll be a target too...)

Wield the banhammer. Yes, it was forged in the fires of perdition but you can use its dark powers for good. It is your destiny.

omg y mai blockquotes not werk?!

themadlolscientist:
try here - http://www.stanford.edu/group/nolan/tutorials/ret_3_maj_prot.html

Very disappointed to read of your bad apostrophe attitude. Smart, thinking people need signs to recognize their kind, and the correct use of the apostrophe is a useful talisman. If you submit something to a journal for which I review (unlikely, since I study real organisms, not bits of semi-autonomous tricked-up biochemistry on the loose), and you abuse the apostrophe, I will judge you and hammer you. Many feel as I do. Please reconsider, leave whatever is between you and your mother behind, and wholeheartedly join the literate.

Congrats Abbie... I actually saw a cool tshirt that I should have bought for you! Darwin is R-evolution-ary! It was at the AMNH.

As an English major, I object to your cavalier attitude towards apostrophes, but I'd say that avoiding them entirely is preferably to randomly peppering them about.

Welcome aboard!

Agggh! I violated the cardinal rule when posting about grammatical/mechanical issues. Or is it that I succumbed to the inevitable?

Preferable!
Preferable!
Preferable!

Congrats and welcome!

(a present for you... don't know if you saw it--I dropped your name into a recent verse):

My scientific colleagues have been banned from Universities
Expecting them to publish was just one of their adversities
Theyve parried the attacks of retroviruses endogenous
Maintaining all the while that Darwinians are dodgin us

DC

Agggh! I violated the cardinal rule when posting about grammatical/mechanical issues. Or is it that I succumbed to the inevitable?
Pedantry is a harsh mistress. Also, I will award an internet to the first person to write a script for this blog that automatically removes any apostrophes appearing in the comments.

They can strike you down Abbie, but you shall become more powerful than they could possibly imagine.

...assuming that it was the IDiots whining that got your blog deleted.

...assuming that it was the IDiots whining that got your blog deleted.

Google is good at two things: search engines and submissively urinating whenever someone pretends to have a copyright claim or feigns offense at something. If they weren't so good with the first item, I wouldn't bother with them at all.

ERV: U GOTZ TO ENABLEZ TAGZ IN COMMENTZ!!

KTHXBAI!

Man its good to see you are still blogging. The whole interwebs been buzzing with the demise of ERV concerns (as opposed to a concern troll...).

Kudos as usual to Cuttlefish for the verse above :)

Welcome to SciBlogs Abbie! Always liked you on Blogger, looking forward to your stuff here.

Job 1 - I think you need a snazzy banner. Can't post without a snazzy banner.

p.s. have you met my friend Bob the Angry Flower?

Abbie,

I am a new reader, but undoubtedly I will be a loyal reader because ARNIE IS THE BEST! I, too, have lived with a pit bull and I know the sweet, loyal destruction they inflict all over one's life. I love the breed. (I am opposed to dog breeding of any kind, but since it's done - whoops, sorry about the apostrophes! - those of us who care must rescue, love and play with them.)

I look forward to more good reading. I'm fascinated by the work you're (damn!) doing.

Welcome to ScienceBlogs!

Hi Abbie!

Welcome to Science Blogs, and I hope that you enjoy your stay here. :)

Just letting you know that your "old" blog is back up! Grab what you can from there while it's there just in case they take it down again.

Enjoy!

The only Abbie Smith that seems to show up at OU works in the athletic department as a PE Trainer and a massage therapist..is that you?

People who keep pit bulls have deep seated mental problems ...have you considered therapy?

Evopeach, project much?

Someone already took the "oh hai", so I'll forgo that. But welcome to the new host, good to see you back, I trust SB will be a more reliable host in the long term.

To those concerned about what really happened, I did a little... well... Googling, on the issue, and it sounds like this could very well have not been specifically targeted at ERV. There appears to have been issues of something being done to some people's blogs that directed traffic to some sort of fake site loaded with pop up ads and browser redirects and all sorts of nasty stuff. The people reporting such things report being initially delisted from Google.

I'd be extremely disappointed if Google's response to having their own service hacked was to delete the accounts of those who have been victimized, but that's starting to look like what may be happening.

Then again it would have been simplicity in itself for the fundies to have gotten a script kiddie to do this to ERV's site. I'm sure there must be someone out there who styles his or her self a "hacker for jesus".

And WOAH, IT IS BACK. Ya'know, I just acquired a plugin for Firefox that may allow me to mirror the whole thing. This looks like the perfect time to test it out.

I'm sure ERV will stay on SB, and rightly so. But let's just say this does make it look more like a crude, baby with the bathwater style treatment from Google than intentional disappearing, no matter how much this did look like standard Uncommon Descent practice.

And there's the first troll of the new blog. Congratulations evopeach.

Evopeach,

Clearly you need to a bit more research.

Abbie is not Abbie's given first name. Hence why you were unable to find her.

Don't help the stalker, Matt.

I like your new place.

BTW, it seems that old ERV is back online.

Welcome back, Abbie! Congratulations for snagging a spot on the SciBlogs roster. :)

I think you should keep an open mind about religion, Abbie. Consider the argument for God's existence given by Richard Swinburne in "Is There a God?" It's worth a look.

My impression is that you have been studying at the Village Atheist School of Philosophical Theology, and hence you are clueless about religion. Swinburne fully accepts evolution, naturalistic abiogenesis etc. So do many other theists.

"Swinburne fully accepts evolution, naturalistic abiogenesis etc. So do many other theists."

Which means exactly bupkis when you look at any evidence for a higher being. None available, KTHNX, so I'll continue not having a belief in Thor until someone provides actual testable evidence that Thor is alive and he does in fact carry a huge hammer.

Hugh is right. Speaking as a long time instructor in holistic quantum theology, I can also say that the comments on this blog show a disturbing lack of theological training. After all, William Dembski fully accepts that the world is round and that it orbits the sun. Hugh Ross fully accepts the theory of evolution. John Polkinghorne fully accepts the standard model. So do many other theists.

Had you bothered to study holistic quantum theology, you would all know that it's completely logical to accept a general body of claims as true based on the fact that an adherent of that general body of claims also accepts one thing which we know to be true.

Hi new ERV readers!

My mind insists on reading "PERV" there. I don't know why. I like it.

Congrats on the new digs!

I declared war against apostrophes in third grade, my mother is an English teacher, there is nothing you can say that will change my mind.

Nothing? ;-)

Welcome to your new digs!

I've always enjoyed your writing style - especially when refering to Dembski or the Expelled legal briefs. Sometimes you just have to laugh. :)

However, it is always good to know that IDiots have nothing better to do than try to silence folks who dedicate their lives to AIDs research, while supporting folks who lie and steal. In science if you are caught lying, using someone elses research, etc. your career is pretty much over. With ID folks, it is pretty much standard operating procedure.

Wow, first day on SB and you've already got a concern troll. That doesn't bode well...

Anybody else having trouble with the RSS feed?

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

Congrats on being a scienceblogs science blogger.

I find your lack of faith heartening.

Darth Vader blows

Regards

Steven

(psssst...that was a joke, I love ERV)

;-)

For Rev. BigDumbChimp,

I think that Swinburne was one of the influences in Anthny Flew's conversion to deism. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss his work as being of no account: you say you have no evidence, but that may be because you haven't had the evidence presented to you in the appropriate fashion. That is where Swinburne can help.

... and ScienceBlogs just got that much better. ERV FTW!

For "Dustin read his Aquinas",

Please try and be charitable when responding to my comments. Obviously I am not claiming that ERV should accept Swinburne's views based merely on his acceptance of evolutionary theory. I am, rather, removing a potential obstacle to ERV's appreciation of this man's excellent philosophical work. I think his versions of the design and cosmological arguments are perfectly good, that is all.

slang-- just for you, a post on PERVs.

Hugh-- I dont particularly like philosophy, and especially 'professional' philosophers. I mean its fun drunk talk, but it annoys me. Thank you for the suggestion, though :)

Nomad-- It was a malicious disappearing. If you are on Blogger, back your stuff up now. It can happen to you too... *sigh*

Ok rite, I used to read ERV pretty regularly in its old home, but I didn't have the right kind of account so I only posted once, anonymously (someone had made a post about the merits of the market in education that I just couldn't leave unchallenged). But now I'm sort of disturbed, because I have a BA in English and I hadn't noticed that Abbie spurns the 'postrophe. I fail.

Thanks, dreikin. I can see I've got a lot of catching up to do where biology is concerned. :-)

Welcome to the neighborhood, Abbie!

Hi Abbie - nice to find you again; missed you when you were disappeared.

No, we are not making fun of handicapped individuals. TARD is a funny acronym for 'The Arguments Regarding Design'. No amount of concern trolling will cause me to stop using that acronym. Its funny.

Surely you are not so naive as to think that the term started as an acronym. The acronym is funny, but it was invented ex post facto to justify the continued use of the term "tard." If this meakes me a concern troll, at least I'm an honest one.

Abbie!!! Congrats on being annexed by the Evil Empire. It's good to see that ScienceBlogs is seeking balance by getting a new atheist. :-) It's a well-deserved honor. Best,
Steve