evolution:
One in eight. Is that low enough? Not according to the authors of a new paper in PLoS Biology who conducted the "first nationally representative survey of teachers concerning the teaching of evolution." They did come up with some optimistic...
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Posted on May 21, 2008 6:41 AM • 2 Comments •
"A no more shameless, stupid and loathsome piece of propaganda has ever skulked its way into the theater."
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Posted on April 26, 2008 12:38 PM • 7 Comments •
All hell is breaking loose as our little corner of blogosphere tries to come to grips with the wisdom of telling it like it is.
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Posted on March 27, 2008 10:03 AM • 39 Comments •
What do you expect when you read of the "four most powerful and profound scientific theories" since the 17th century, but come across no mention of evolution by natural selection?
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Posted on March 17, 2008 9:59 AM • 19 Comments •
It's pretty much exactly what's been missing in the search to fill in the gap between whatever entirely terrestrial whale ancestor and the first aquatic whales of 50 million years ago.
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Posted on December 20, 2007 10:03 AM • 2 Comments •
So there was this guy, right? He worked at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His research was specifically targeted at evolutionary processes. But he was a creationist, so he refused to address evolution in his research. So he was fired....
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Posted on December 8, 2007 10:34 AM • 3 Comments •
"Ouch," Dr. Jacobson said. "It was hideous."
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Posted on October 25, 2007 8:43 AM • 4 Comments •
The fine folk at DefCon (shorthand for the imprecisely named Campaign to Defend the Constitution) have released a poll showing that intelligent design hasn't made much headway into the evangelic right wing. The polls also suggests that the new Creation...
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Posted on July 12, 2007 12:57 PM • 9 Comments •
Picard and the gang race to re-assemble bits of a message encoded in the genomes of disparate species throughout the galaxy...
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Posted on June 26, 2007 10:20 AM • 1 Comments •
If hell was real, a place of honor would be reserved for Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, who blocked a plan to honor Rachel Carson last week. We named our cat after Carson, so you can guess how angry this...
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Posted on May 27, 2007 1:09 PM • 4 Comments •
"Why conservatives should toady to these storm troopers is beyond me."
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Posted on May 5, 2007 9:13 AM • 6 Comments •
Evolution is not, in philosophical terms, teleological -- heading for some ultimate goal.
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Posted on April 30, 2007 9:51 AM • 8 Comments •
Often have I tried to draw attention to creationist propaganda masquerading as reasoned discourse. Lest I leave the impression that the mainstream media are incapable of portraying biological evolution as the only scientific explanation for the diversity of life on...
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Posted on March 13, 2007 9:33 AM • 0 Comments •
Sciblogger Rob Knop of Galactic Interactions has learned that the best way to attract comments to a science blog is to post something about religion. (Hence the title of this post; we all like site traffic). I suspect that religosity...
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Posted on March 12, 2007 9:02 AM • 17 Comments •
PZ Myers rarely writes anything I find objectionable, but today he is so bang on that I feel compelled to share it with those few readers of mine who might not be regular visitors to Pharygula....
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Posted on January 18, 2007 12:11 PM • 4 Comments •
Well, technically, not Seattle, but the exurbian outpost of Federal Way, Wash., where the "School Board on Tuesday placed what it labeled a moratorium on showing the film." The film in question is Laurie David's An Inconvenient Truth, with which...
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Posted on January 12, 2007 7:05 AM • 0 Comments •
At long last: scientific proof for intelligent design. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you, the banana!...
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Posted on September 13, 2006 1:52 PM • 10 Comments •
If Richard Dawkins spends much time in the blogosphere, he's probably quite pleased with himself these days on account of the success of the meme meme. By that, I mean the "unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice...
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Posted on August 21, 2006 3:43 PM • 3 Comments •
This week's issue of Science includes the results of a survey that doesn't exactly provide cause for celebration. LiveScience has a preview for those averse to reading journal papers: A comparison of peoples' views in 34 countries finds that the...
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Posted on August 10, 2006 4:42 PM • 2 Comments •
Well, not clams. And not legs as such. But there's a neat piece out in Nature on the evolutionary leap, so to speak, between fish fins and the limbs of land critters. A team of researchers has "discovered that the...
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Posted on August 1, 2006 5:22 PM • 1 Comments •
While online polls are generally worthless when it comes to generating representative statistics - see this post and ensuing dicussion (sorry for being cranky, girlscientist) -- they can at time produce quite curious results. This self-described unscientific poll from the...
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Posted on July 31, 2006 2:08 PM • 1 Comments •
Anyone want to take a run at anticipating the reaction from creationists to the news that "Finches on Galapagos Islands [are] Evolving" (Associated Press, July 14)? I'm thinking they will latch onto the story's first paragraph, which ever so slightly...
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Posted on July 14, 2006 3:15 PM • 6 Comments •
If I had $50,000 -- and no mortgage -- I'd love to bid on a letter that's just surfaced and is about to be auctioned off by Sotheby's. It's from the revered Charles Darwin to the Reverend William Denton. New...
Posted on June 22, 2006 1:49 PM • 2 Comments •
Everyone's had a good time taking shots at Ann Coulter's inability to think straight. Some valiant types, like PZ Myers, have even sacrified several hours of their lives to reading and picking apart her pathetic prose. Everything she says is...
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Posted on June 22, 2006 9:59 AM • 6 Comments •
James Hrynyshyn is a freelance science journalist based in western North Carolina, where he tries to put degrees in marine biology and journalism to good use.
