Look kids! Evolution in action!

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In what could be a first in the world, a fish species in the cichlid family has been observed by scientists in the act of splitting into two distinct species in Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest lake and one of the world’s biggest fresh water bodies.

October 14th, 2008 | Category: Africa, Evolution | Comments are closed

On the Origin of Species

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The Guardian is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the theory of natural selection with the definitive guide to Darwin’s work and related articles.

February 9th, 2008 | Category: Darwin, Evolution | Comments are closed

I can sum it all up in three words: Evolution is a lie

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Fundamentalists say the darndest things. You have to be in the right frame of mind to read this. If you’re in the mood to be made angry by moronic bigotry this will probably raise your blood pressure dangerously high. On the other hand, if you want to laugh at a bunch of hypocritical idiots, dive in.

via Pagan Prattle

January 16th, 2008 | Category: Creationism, Evolution, Fundamentalists, Religion | Comments are closed

Evolution’s revolution

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Human evolution is happening at a greatly increased rate. Far from stopping evolving now that so many diseases have been conquered and we’re living longer the new conditions we’re creating are accelerating changes.

I’m reading Children of Prometheus: The Accelerating Pace of Human Evolution, a book that puts forward this very argument with sections on the development of defences against malaria and how even mundane things such as job satisfaction can affect reproductive effectiveness. Fascinating stuff.

December 11th, 2007 | Category: Evolution | Comments are closed

Devolution in Kentucky

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The Creation Museum in Kentucky has exhibits showing dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark and claims the Grand Canyon was created by the Flood.

While the $27 million museum near Cincinnati has drawn snickers from media and condemnation from U.S. scientists, those who believe God created the heavens and the Earth in six days about 6,000 years ago say their views are finally being represented.

“What we’ve done here is to give people an opportunity to hear information that is not readily available … to challenge them that really you can believe the Bible’s history,” said Ken Ham, president of the group Answers in Genesis that founded the museum.

via BoingBoing

May 29th, 2007 | Category: Creationism, Evolution, God, Kentucky, USA | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

And God said, "Let there be Peanut Butter!"

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A silly YouTube clip of Creationists arguing that evolution is not real because Life has never spontaneously appeared in a jar of peanut butter. From the comment thread-

On the other hand, this clip proves evolution. Because not all Creationist talking heads can get attention and money from the fundamentalist base, they are in a “struggle for subsistence”. Those who are more simpleminded, idiotic, obsequious of fundamentalism and disparaging of science than their colleagues will survive. Dumb ideas must be continually adapted to an increasingly irrational environment; differential illogical success rewards the most nonsensical ideas. “Peanut butter disproves evolution” is a transitional absurdity between “bananas are proof of design” and the next even more ludicrous sound bite that this hominid sub-species will think of.

via BoingBoing

April 1st, 2007 | Category: Creationism, Evolution, God | Comments are closed
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