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Honoring 150 years of "On the Origin of Species;" Noor is recipient of Darwin-Wallace MedalPlease join the National Science Foundation (NSF) on Monday, Nov. 23, at 10 a.m. ET for a live webcast featuring Darwin-Wallace Medal recipient Mohamed Noor of Duke University, who will answer media questions about current evidence for evolution and modern evolution theory. Among the topics:* Does modern...
Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Another Atlas exclusive essay written by the indefatigable historian Fjordman. This the third and final part of his history of geology and planetary science. Part one can be read here and part two here. A History of Geology and Planetary Science Fjordman Auroras in the Northern Hemisphere are called northern lights; in the Southern Hemisphere southern lights. They appear as arcs, clouds and streaks...
Evolution List (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Many people have recently heard about how creationist and televangelist Ray Comfort has been planning to distribute 170,000 copies of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species at the 100 top colleges and universities in America . Well, the appointed day (19 November) for Ray's distribution of the Origin came and went, but apparently no creationists showed up at Cornell to pass out Ray's "abridged"...
Evolution List (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
It has been almost exactly a century and a half since Darwin's Origin of Species was first published, and half a century since the conference at the University of Chicago where the "triumph" of the "modern evolutionary synthesis" was celebrated. So, isn't it a little odd that some well-respected scientists and historians of science are proclaiming in this celebratory year that the...
The Panda's Thumb (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Genetics has published three essays in honor of 150th anniversary of the Origin. Allen Orr’s piece provides an interesting historical perspective on the interaction between the science of evolution (or Darwinism) and the impacts on society. The Charlesworths provide an opinion on the importance of Darwin on genetics (note that they get the D-M speciation model wrong by suggesting that it’s...
Evolution List (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
There will be a free public showing of The Darwinian Revolution video series at 4 PM on Tuesday 24 November 2009 in the large classroom (room 3330) of the Tatkon Center in Balch Hall. This presentation will take place on the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species , and is part of Cornell's celebration of the Darwin Bicentennial. The host of the video series, Cornell...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
It turns out that those rumors from an Alaskan activist about Palin being a creationist were true. Not that anyone should be shocked by this; given Palin's religious views it would be extremely shocking if she was not a creationist. But a CBN reporter cites more evidence from her book. According to a review published Sunday in The New York Times, Palin knocks evolution in her new book. Elsewhere in...
Physorg (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research could help protect the future of a rare bird in the Galapagos Islands that was an inspiration for Darwin`s theory of evolution by natural selection, scientists report in a paper published in the Royal Society Journal Biology Letters today.
Evolution List (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
AUTHOR: Daniel Cressey SOURCE: Nature.com News COMMENTARY: Allen MacNeill As I have noted in several recent blogposts, Charles Darwin's Origin of Species was published 150 years ago this month . One of Darwin's crucial examples of descent with modification in the Origin was the evolutionary diversification of a group of finches now usually referred to as "Darwin's finches" . In the Origin...
Gene Expression (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
There was recently a conference on evolution in Egypt. Some interesting numbers : Dr Guessoum, who is a Sunni Muslim, said that in countries such as Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan and Malaysia, only 15 per cent of those surveyed believed Darwin's theory to be "true" or "probably true". This stand was equally prevalent among students and teachers, from high school to university....
Scientific American (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
November 24th marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species. On November 19th, a guy named Ray Comfort, who does not accept evolution, will celebrate the fact that when copyrights expire and works enter the public domain you’re free to do with them what you will. Thus Comfort will be distributing his own edition of Darwin’s masterwork, with a new introduction....
Evolution List (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
During this year of celebration of Darwin and evolutionary biology, Intelligent Design (ID) supporters are fond of asserting that a branch of the biological sciences that currently accounts for over 100 regularly published journals (containing over 1000 peer-reviewed scientific reports) per year , over 1000 books published by reputable scientific publishers per year , and involving grant and foundation...
Gene Expression (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
This discussion between Michael Specter & Chris Mooney pointed me to an interesting new book, Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives . Instead of Global Warming or Creationism, Specter addresses less pervasively disputatious issues such as genetically modified food , the anti-vaccination movement and the politics of the FDA approval...
Greg Laden's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
In Going Rogue: An American Life Sarah Palin make sthe claim that she does not believe in evolution. She has not been so straightfoward in the past on this topic, according to think progress . ...she talks about creationism, saying she "didn't believe in the theory that human beings -- thinking, loving beings -- originated from fish that sprouted legs and crawled out of the sea" or from...
New Scientist (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Creationists who try to smear The Origin of Species as the sacred text of science are making a basic error
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petercasier | 09/17/2008
Today, the Vatican said the theory of evolution is compatible with the Bible but planned no posthumous apology to Charles Darwin for the cold reception they gave him 150 years ago.
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