You can normally rely on Jason Kottke to find reams of interesting stuff on the web. By now there must be a Kottke Effect, in which considerable quantities of Googlejuice will be injected into--and server load imposed upon--anything he links to. (The Slashdot Effect and the Boing Boing Effect are of course larger; I wonder how many Kottkes there are to a BoingBoing, or whether a DecaKottke is larger or smaller than a HemiSlashdot?) But when he posted this the other day:

The theory of evolution: just a theory?  #
"Historian Prof. William D. Rubinstein shares his doubts about the theory of evolution."

I was kind of disappointed. I read the article and wondered why anyone with an academic credit would post a few thousand words of dreck on the web when there are many thousands of words refuting everything Rubinstein's got to say out there already. It didn't deserve any prominence it would get from featuring on Kottke. Why can't Jason use his mighty power for good instead? I wondered.

Thankfully, today he did, linking to Pharyngula's response to, and dissection of, Rubinstein:

A historian disgraces himself  #
A rebuttal of "The Theory of Evolution: Just a Theory?"

And the megatonnage of BoingBoing has been recruited to the effort.

The scales tip back.