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Greg Laden's Blog (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Consider this question from a recent poll: "Should topics such as creationism or intelligent design be taught in public schools alongside the theory of evolution?" The correct answer is, of course, no. And the poll results support this: This may not seem remarkable, until you learn where the poll is from. It is from "One New Snow" which is apparently some sort of Christian Yahoo thing: Details here....
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Post-Darwinist (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Following up on the Brit media story about the Church of England's faux apology to Charles Darwin, I note where Jonathan Petre (Daily Mail, September 13, 2008) quotes Former Conservative Minister Ann Widdecombe, who left the Church of England to become a Roman Catholic, said: ‘It's absolutely ludicrous. Why don’t we have the Italians apologising for Pontius Pilate? ‘We've already apologised for slavery...
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Uncommon Descent (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
British physicist David Tyler looks at a recent find in cichlid fish which has been vastly overhyped as evidence for new species. He means hype like this Nature News story (1 October 2008), which proclaims “What you see is how you evolve: Differences in vision could give rise to new species.” Here’s the abstract of the [...]
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Jezebel (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Supply The Word (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Thanks and praise to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. There are some "polls" that are published with the intent of giving us a false impression of how America thinks about teaching creationism or... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Anorak News (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann In the beginning was the word. And the word was “Maddie”… THE INDEPENDENT: “Religion vs science: can the divide between God and rationality be reconciled'” And on the eighth day the media was created and Our Maddie did come to the [...]
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Post-Darwinist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Recently, I wrote about Stephen Craig Dilley's paper in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies attacking Larry Arnhart's "Darwinian conservatism" here (October 4, 2008): Darwinism and popular culture: Darwinian conservatism means "disintegration of morality"? That's St. Edward's University's Stephen Craig Dilley's view in a recent edition of Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (Vol XX, 2008, whose...
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Post-Darwinist (Free subscription) | yesterday
British physicist David Tyler looks at a recent find in cichlid fish which has been vastly hyped as evidence for rapdi appearance of new species. He means hype like this Nature News story (1 October 2008), which proclaims "What you see is how you evolve: Differences in vision could give rise to new species." Here's the abstract of the paper Tyler discusses: Speciation through sensory drive in cichlid...
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All Spin Zone (Free subscription) | yesterday
It seems to me that fear plays an integral role in politics. I suspect there is a connection between the fear of death (terror management), the rejection of evolution, a predisposition to create fact from fiction when faced with frightening situations...and a convergence of all three in politics.
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Canadian Cynic (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
At one of the 385 incestuous, cross-referential blogs in her link farm , Canadian Intelligent Design whacknut Denyse O'Leary bemoans the loss : Anchor Christian retailer Mitchell’s goes into receivership ... The high Canadian dollar and the growth of Internet retailing were blamed. Or maybe just the fact that the market for scientifically illiterate crap, overpriced superstitious twaddle, and hideously...
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Pharyngula (Free subscription) | yesterday
Oh, come now. Are they just taunting me, waving a bit of succulent red meat before and begging me to bite? Should topics such as creationism or intelligent design be taught in public schools alongside the theory of evolution? 85% say yes. I cannot believe that 85% of the population are that stupid, although it is being hosted on the American Patriarchy News Network, which would tend to bias the sample...
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prefixmag.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Yoko Ono and EMI dropped their lawsuit against Ben Stein and the makers of the intelligent design film, Expelled, for using “Imagine” by John Lennon without permission. Ono had failed ...
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haha.nu (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
When Charles Darwin introduced the theory of evolution through natural selection 143 years ago, the scientists of the day argued over it fiercely, but the massing evidence from paleontology, genetics, zoology, molecular biology and other fields gradually established evolution’s truth beyond reasonable doubt. Today that battle has been won everywhere–except in the public imagination. Embarrassingly,...
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Uncommon Descent (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Commenting on the fact that scientists are typically poorly trained in philosophy of science, one friend remarks, As a Ph.D. student in biology I was actively discouraged from taking courses in philosophy — or, for that matter, any courses outside my department, including evolution. My adviser’s attitude was that I should focus exclusively on my own [...]
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Defamer (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
A couple months ago, when Ben Stein's documentary Expelled stunned industry and cultural observers alike by selling $7.6 million worth of intelligent-design hokum to its conservative Christian base,...
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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.
