Pipetting for our Lord

The pro-ID creationism "think" tank, the Discovery Institute, has started/not started but is affiliated with/is in no way affiliated with a new lab in Washington State called the Biologic Institute. The new lab's goal is to do pro-ID science. The New Scientist has a great article on what all isn't going on with this "lab," and it's quite amusing.

What I personally find most amusing is the name. Doesn't Biologic Institute sound like a shady corporate lab where a comic book villain was accidentally created when biohazard trash got hit by a radioactive bolt of super energy?

Sadly, this will just give crazy-ass fundies another irrelevant piece of illogical poo to fling at science: Jesus Lab has a paper by a scientist saying that evolution is false. See, the Bible is scientific.

The Panda's Thumb has a great take:

Clearly, the Discovery Institute has established the Biologic Institute a few decades too late. The Institute for Creation Research and the Creation Research Society have been doing research to challenge naturalism for a long time. They are so prestigious in the field that they have even created their own research journals for publishing their papers. This does not bode well for the Discovery and Biologic Institutes because they will have a hard time breaking the stranglehold that those two research centers have on the industry. For decades now, the ICR and CRS have been telling us that their research is going to revolutionize science in five years time. How can the Biologic and Discovery Institutes compete with such success?

We here at the Thumb wish the Biologic and Discovery Institutes all the luck in turning the ID public relations campaign into a working scientific program. They’ll need it.