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The End of Humanity-No gods or guns required
If you only listen to politicians or prophets, the end of the world will come about dramatically, and according to many, soon. We are told to expect either wars in the heavens with gods battling gods over the fate of humanity or wars between nations involving nuclear weapons and mad men pushing the button.
Humans love [...]
“Evolution is just a theory”
Image by Colin Purrington via Flickr
Every time I encounter that sentiment, and that happens all too frequently, I cringe.
Theory as used by science means something quite different than our common, every day usage. It pains me when someone tries to denounce something without having bothered to learn something about the topic. I don’t ignorantly attempt [...]
The human barbarian
Two hundred thousand years may seem like a long time to us with our puny 80 year life spans. But on the evolutionary scale it’s not long at all. We are more similar to our early cousins than we are different. There have been modest increases in life span thanks to modern medicine, but physically [...]
Scientists find missing evolutionary link using tiny fungus crystal
Creationists like to latch on to minor points to try and make major claims. One of the more popular latch points for them is the transition from single cell, or simple, lifeforms to the more complex, multicellular forms. Since up until now science has not had a ready explanation for that jump, creationists [...]
ID, it deserves to be Expelled
Writing on the ScienceBlogs, pharyngula is someone I read daily. A while ago he posted this video, which he describes better than I ever could, and attempts to correct a few of the glaring misconceptions spouted by O’Reilly and Stein.
Two people vying to out-stupid each other
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Evolution (or as he called [...]
2008 National High School Essay Contest
From Alliance for Science:
2008 National High School Essay Contest
For our second annual National High School Essay Contest we invite students to submit essays of not more than 1,000 words on one of two topics — “Climate and Evolution” or “Agriculture and Evolution.”
Submission deadline is February 29, 2008.
Student prizes start with $300 for first place, and [...]
Modern times causing human evolution to accelerate
Human evolution is speeding up. Around 40,000 years ago our genes began to evolve much faster. By 5000 years ago they were evolving 30 to 40 times faster than ever before and it seems highly likely that we continue to evolve at this super speed today.
Our population explosion and rapidly changing lifestyles seem to be [...]
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