The “Peacock Spider”(Maratus volans)

April 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Extraordinary: Your Thoughts?

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Tyson On How We Can Tell Nature Was Not Designed For Us

March 19, 2011 By 1 Comment

A really nice rundown from Neil deGrasse Tyson: Your Thoughts?

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What is Life?

March 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Can we define it? Can we recognize it elsewhere in the universe if we cannot even define it? Thanks to Helen. Your Thoughts?

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Why Bad Beliefs Don’t Die

February 25, 2011 By 3 Comments

The thoughts of Gregory W. Lester (as edited down by John W. Loftus) (okay, now I feel like calling myself Daniel W. Fincke): Because senses and beliefs are both tools for survival and have evolved to augment one another, our brain considers them to be separate but equally important purveyors of survival information….This means that [...]

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Defending The Apparent Truth Of Evolution’s Mindlessness

February 21, 2011 By 4 Comments

Last Christmas Eve, I argued that the belief that God “guided evolution” was not a rationally respectable way to reconcile science with faith but rather it was essentially an effective denial of the theory of natural selection, in its scientifically explanatory sense. Part of the revolutionary character of the discovery of evolution by natural selection [...]

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RSA Animate Of Stephen Pinker, “Language As A Window Into Human Nature”

February 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Fantastic, insightful, and intuitively correct stuff about why we bother to use innuendos and other forms of indirect language where the literal meaning of what we are saying is undisguisedly clear: Thanks to Shane. Your Thoughts?

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Perspective

February 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment

via Releasing Religion. Your Thoughts?

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Recap Of Darwin Day At Camels With Hammers 2011

February 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment

In case you missed any of the material I gathered together for today, here’s the full rundown of posts: How Belief In “Theistic Evolution” Is Nearly As Much A Denial Of Science As Creationism Qualia Soup Lays Out The Basics Of Evolution Darwin’s Birthdaily Hilarity: Creationism Darwin’s Birthdaily Hilarity: People Are Not Animals! (and evolution [...]

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7 Reasons Not To Celebrate Darwin Day

February 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment

I have been chastened.  Next year: no Darwin Day posts. Your Thoughts?

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Kansas vs. Darwin

February 12, 2011 By 2 Comments

From today through March 12, you can screen Kansas vs. Darwin. Description of the film: Even before they took place, the 2005 Kansas school board hearings on evolution were recognized as a pivotal battle in America’s ongoing war over teaching evolution in the public schools. Organized by believers in Intelligent Design and convened by creationists, [...]

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