Category: Creationism
Mike Haubrich, of Tangled Up in Blue Guy blog, has documented a discussion between a biologist, a commenter, and the Discovery Institute (a creationist "think" tank). No apes were harmed during this incident, but one of them may be rather embarrassed. It's quite intresting, have...
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Posted by Greg Laden at 1:33 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anthropology
An overview of the classic literature in my field of study.
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Category: Books
Suppose you are an intelligent, thoughtful person with a thirst for information, a desire to be challenged, and a tendency to not accept received knowledge at face value. You are embedded in a traditional Christian culture where most of your family, your child's teachers and...
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Posted by Greg Laden at 9:43 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolutionary Biology
I heard it said recently that "Evolution" and "Origin of life" are two separate issues. I know that this is a falsehood, and I'll discuss in a moment how and why it is not true. But first, I checked around with a few people that...
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Category: Michele Bachmann
She's running for president, so this is important....
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Posted by Greg Laden at 1:39 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
There's been a fair amount of talk about the Miss USA interview question "should evolution be taught in schools," and a fair amount of attention given to the answers provided by the contestants. For the most part, people have gotten mad at these women because...
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Posted by Greg Laden at 11:35 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Carnivals
The Best Evolution Blogging of May, 2011
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Category: Evolution
So Amanda had this TV. It had a remote. The remote sucked. It was broken. Then I moved in and with me came a universal remote. Lucky Amanda. I programmed the universal remote (a Radioshack 5 in 1) to handle the TV as well as...
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Category: Atheism
Darrow was born this day in 1857. He was a lawyer and a prominent member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). We know him as the defender of John Scopes in the Monkey Trial of 1925. Darrow and Scopes lost that trial, which was...
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Category: Evolution
Bigfoot. Explained.
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