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The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less can we believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially the obvious alternative to chance is an intelligent Designer. But Charles Darwin showed how it is possible for blind physical forces to mimic the effects of conscious design, and, by operating as a cumulative filter of chance variations, to lead eventual to organized and adaptive complexity, to mosquitoes and mammoths, to humans and therefore, indirectly, to books and computers.
Darwin's theory is now supported by all the available relevant evidence, and its truth is not doubted by any serious modern biologist…
Dr. Richard Dawkins Department of Zoology, Oxford University, UK), The necessity of Darwinism. New Scientist, vol.94, 15 April 1982, p.130.
December 31, 2011
Category: Weblogs
That most excellent blog on plant genetics and scientific agriculture, Biofortified, is having a fundraiser to maintain their eucational and reporting efforts (there's a full breakdown of where the money goes on the site). They're not asking much and they...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:38 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Organisms
Review the unpleasant nature of the cat's penis. Now contemplate this: "12 feet long and highly mobile" and "gigantic testes that weigh a ton". Although, I do confess, when a pod of these big boys go into rut in your...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:35 AM • 4 Comments •
December 30, 2011
Category: Cephalopods
Weep for the poor creatures. But note the steely glint of vengeance in the eye of their living compatriots. (Also on FtB)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:15 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Creationism
It's a question from Israel, so it was right-aligned. Too bad it wasn't written from right to left or it would have been more interesting. sorry for my bad english. someone gave me a strong evidence for a design...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:09 AM • 12 Comments •
December 29, 2011
Category: Science
Geoffrey Pearce sent me this argument he uses with creationists, and I thought others might find it useful, too. I am regularly approached by young Earth creationists (yes, even in the bedlam of sin that is Montreal...) both on the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:36 PM • 198 Comments •
Category: Creationism
I hope some of the New Hampshire readers are paying attention: you have two creationist bills working through the legislature, and some real dingbats backing them. Bergevin told the Monitor, "I want the full portrait of evolution and the people...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:54 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Evolution
I've written about the spectacular phospatized embryos of the Doushantuo formation before. It's a collection of exceptionally well preserved small multicellular organisms, so well preserved that we can even look at cellular organelles. And they're pre-Cambrian, as much as 630...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:09 PM • 1 Comments •
December 28, 2011
Category: Organisms
(via Loire Nature) (Also on FtB)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:13 PM • 2 Comments •
December 27, 2011
Category: Ethics
He's a delusional kook, but Collins is also a competent administrator, and I have to give him credit when he does the right thing. The NIH, led by Dr. Collins, has recently accepted a recommendation from the National Institute of...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:58 AM • 12 Comments •
Category: Bad science
Teo is an Australian surgeon who has a brilliant scheme for anyone with a bit of surgical skill and a complete lack of conscience. He performs surgery on inoperable brain tumors in kids dying of cancer, and then ships them...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:30 AM • 20 Comments •
