Showing posts with label evolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evolution. Show all posts
Saturday, August 17, 2013

Pantry moths, evolution and natural selection

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Note: update at end of post. You knew those three things would be combined in a headline one day, didn't you? I've been thi...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Aliens, evolution and speciation

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Let's call life a spark. It is that spark that somehow emerges from matter, making it move, making living creatures. Using this defi...
Monday, May 13, 2013

Dr. Benjamin Carson: neurosurgeon and twit

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Seriously, this guy is as dumb as a stump. He's a neurosurgeon and a Seventh Day Adventist. Today, Jerry Coyne blogs about the fact...
Monday, January 14, 2013

This should be posted everywhere

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Jerry Coyne, my favorite science blogger, has been posting excerpts from Robert G. Ingersoll's 1872 essay “ The Gods “. (Yes, 1872!) H...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

NYT publishes utter nonsense

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The New York Times published an idiotic essay by Nicholas Wade today, and I really don't understand their motivation. The substance ...
Friday, October 26, 2012

How can anyone NOT believe in evolution?

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From a science news story today: Neurotransmitters linked to mating behavior are shared by mammals and worms . And from another story re...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Religious twits and evolution

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On his blog today, Jerry Coyne said : "So when you hear people who accept evolution nevertheless refusing to admit that it’s un...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Good article on the evolution of humans

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I just read a great article in the New York Times. It's an interview with Chris Stringer , a British paleoanthropologist, and it tou...
Friday, April 13, 2012

The problem in a nutshell

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In the comments on Greg Laden's blog , I found the following: There was a sad statement in the one blog that read "I respect ...
Friday, November 4, 2011

Accommodating the religious

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Some atheist writers try not to upset those who are religious. There seems to be this idea that religion is wrong but believers are just p...
Friday, October 14, 2011

Religion misses the beauty

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One of the oddest things about religion is that it insists its adherents not notice the beauty all around them. To block their flock's...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

Dawkins, dissing Perry, speaks of evolution's beauty

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I'm sure readers are aware that Rick Perry (and every other Republican nitwit running for president, other than Huntsman) said he does...
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Humans are pattern-seeking creatures

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We see funny, ridiculous stories like this all the time: KINSTON, N.C.— Residents in an eastern North Carolina city say a patch of kudzu...
Saturday, April 9, 2011

Jason Rosenhouse outlines Dawkins' talk

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I'm a big, big fan of Richard Dawkins. No one is more clear-thinking, in my estimation. At Jason Rosenhouse's blog today is a post a...
Sunday, March 6, 2011

Understanding evolution

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A lot of people think they understand evolution but all they really understand are the headlines. Yes, they agree, we evolved from a long ...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

Great stuff on physorg this weekend

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The weekend is usually dull over at physorg. Not this time. First up, " A Fizzy Ocean on Enceladus ". It seems there ma...