At least, it beats “Mr Gay”, which sounds so frivolous. It seems the American Family Association, which you can tell from the name is yet another institution that has mistaken “patriarchy” for “family”*, was a little overzealous in their use of search and replace, and renamed an athlete named Tyson Gay briefly.
*Try it! Just mentally substitute “patriarchy” for “family” in the title of every right-wing organization that uses the term in their name, and it will suddenly make so much more sense.
Mark Isaak has put together a list of Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature — all those strange names people have given to species and molecules.
But you should still watch this retelling of the ID saga, as it would be written by Dr Seuss.
So that’s what the DI has been up to their “Biologic Institute”.
(You might have to know the LOLcats tradition to get the joke).
OK, I’m persuaded.
Something is wrong on the internet.
It should be “complexity”, not “purity”, and the arrow should point to the left. And obviously it should be arranged so that the biologist is on top — the others don’t have a cephalopod.
