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John Wilkins is an eternal student, who thinks philosophy of biology is at least as interesting as politics or sport and twice as important. He has a PhD from the University of Melbourne and worked at the University of Queensland, in Australia, before taking up a research fellowship at the University of Sydney. After a varied career, involving factories, gardening, civil service, publishing, graphics, public relations but not, unfortunately for the CV, driving a truck, John finally completed his thesis on species concepts in 2004, which he has worked into two books.
This blog is designed evolved to host any random thoughts that happen to be passing through my forebrain at a given moment. So there will be errors...
I also have an Australia-focussed blog: The Drought Resistant Philosopher
The previous instantiation of this blog is accessible here.
March 31, 2009
Category: Creationism
A new study into the transfer of genetic material laterally, or across taxonomic divisions, has shown that evolution does not proceed as Darwin thought, and that in fact the present theory of evolution is entirely false. Instead, it transpires that...
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 7:55 AM • 68 Comments •
March 30, 2009
March 29, 2009
Category: Humor
Whenever you see this: Remember this: From AppleInsider - who also note that Linux is cheaper than both, and runs on old hardware (but you need to find your Inner Geek, which costs in time spent)....
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 9:57 AM • 10 Comments •
March 28, 2009
Category: Education
A dozen or so years ago, or maybe more, I was heading up the communications section of The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, when I employed a young biology graduate as a graphics guy to...
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 9:51 PM • 1 Comments •
March 27, 2009
Pope rewrites medical science to suit Catholic dogma. Film at 11. Australian government censorship website hacked. I'm not laughing, really....
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 9:54 PM • 1 Comments •
March 26, 2009
Category: Evolution
It's true! Dinosaurs still exist. John Conway dissected a Rhamphorhyncus, and drew what he saw, here.I had "dinosaur" in the title but as Chris points out, that's a bad error, like calling a mammal a turtle. Damn, I'm not having...
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 11:52 PM • 2 Comments •
Some links and issues I have come across lately....
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 12:24 AM • 2 Comments •
I need about a page of Latin translated. It's late - 18th century, so no classicisms. I will be Very Grateful (and that's about all I'll do, I'm sorry. They don't pay much on a postdoc's salary)....
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 12:14 AM • 8 Comments •
March 25, 2009
Category: Humor
At Laurie's blog, The Critical Thinker's Speakeasy. 'Course, I don't think this actually happened. My own Mormon stories are much more restrained. After 20 minutes of arguing, in which I quoted the Bible at some Mormon missionaries, one said "But...
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 11:20 PM • 7 Comments •
March 24, 2009
One of my favourite 70s songs, below the fold: "Life's a Long Song", by Jethro Tull, from the 1971 EP of the same name. For some reason the final episode of Battlestar Galacticaput this in my head....
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 10:34 PM • 2 Comments •
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