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Category: Charles Darwin
Skepchick Rebecca writes about the Low Anthem's song "Oh my god, Charlie Darwin with comes along with a video: Rebecca has the lyrics and more information, like who this band is and stuff....
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Category: Atheism
I would very much like your help in picking out a tee-shirt to wear around town. Let me tell you about the town, and you'll be able to make an appropriate suggestion....
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Category: A.R. Wallace
Darwin and Wallace, chillin' Let's talk about Darwin and Wallace's joint presentation on Natural Selection in 1858. It is not usually the case that I write a blog post for a carnival. I usually just write for the blog, then now and then sit...
Posted by Greg Laden at 5:04 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Charles Darwin
The British Council has completed a survey which indicates that there is "a broad international consensus of acceptance towards his theory of evolution."
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:44 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Earth Science
...the self-righteous politics at any cost, "if the president does it it is legal" attitude of the 1970s right wing has moved off the stage over recent decades, and most of the practitioners of that attitude (many in prison) moved with it. So what was Buchanan doing on your show?
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:28 PM • 43 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
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Category: Evolutionary Biology
Perhaps we are all subject to falling into the trap of what I call the Hydraulic Theory of Everything. If you eat more you will be bigger, if you eat less you will be smaller. Emotional states are the continuously varying outcome of different levels...
Posted by Greg Laden at 8:26 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolutionary Biology
It's been a great pleasure to read the Origin of Specie ... I had forgotten how clever Darwin was and how he carefully weighs his arguments for evolution. I had also fallen prey to several myths about the book. For example, I didn't realize that...
Posted by Greg Laden at 5:37 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Atheism
Feb 15 - Darwin Year Panel Discussion Featuring Myers, Laden, Moore, Cotner and Phillips 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origins of Species. In honor of this, we have assembled...
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Category: Atheism
The Gallup Poll is not surprising in any of its results but it is, of course, alarming and interesting. Here's a summary. On the eve of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, a new Gallup Poll shows that only 39% of Americans say they...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:40 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Highly Allochthonous 11.05.2009
Eruptions 11.05.2009
Not Exactly Rocket Science 11.05.2009
Corpus Callosum 11.05.2009
Starts With a Bang 11.04.2009
