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Freethinker Sunday Sermonette: The Origin of Specious
Posted by revere on March 29, 2009 If it’s true that atheism is a “religion” because it has a “non-belief system,” there are a helluva lot of atheists out there, since there are a lot of religions and most people believe in at most one of them. Or as one wag put it, “We are all atheists. It’s just that I believe…
Molecular history of the HIV whirlwind
Posted by revere on October 2, 2008 Scientists have been using genetic data to estimate when species first appeared for some time. The basic idea is to use differences between species and a guess as to how fast sequences change as a molecular clock, running it backward until they show the same sequence. The same trick can be done with viral genetic…
Americans talk Turkey about evolution
Posted by revere on August 20, 2006 Sometimes on Sunday I catch up on my backed up journal reading. High profile journals like Nature and Science are great except for one major defect: they come once a week, every week. They tend to pile up. So I browse them, looking for interesting articles or just satisfying my somewhat eclectic scientific interests. No…