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Evolution:
Tony Sidaway discusses a unifying property of theistic evolutionists: the desire or need for there to be some kind of universal plan for their existence. It's not an attitude I understand very well; I don't think it makes life better...
Posted on August 23, 2008 12:24 PM • 140 Comments
Here follows a brief account of my sojourn in the Galápagos Islands, just to give you all a rough idea of what I was up to all this time. I've tossed in just a few pictures to illustrate what we...
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Posted on August 21, 2008 2:45 PM • 64 Comments
Hey, the next episode of the History Channel's series on evolution is coming up soon: Evolve: Sex. I don't quite have the stamina to liveblog it tonight — I'm ready to fall asleep sitting down — but I'll be tuned...
Posted on August 19, 2008 9:07 PM • 61 Comments
Since it has been a long time since I contributed any content to Pharyngula…here's something. I was asked to give a brief talk on the ship, so I've tossed my written draft below the fold. With these short talks...
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Posted on August 17, 2008 7:37 PM • 44 Comments
Another bit of distortion from Ray Comfort: he claims now that I was asked to present the very best evidence for evolution, and that all I could come up with was some "little infolding of the gut". If you've come...
Posted on August 9, 2008 8:51 AM • 52 Comments
It's on the internets. The opening is something that I can't imagine flying by on American television: he simply says that evolution is a vastly superior explanation to anything religion has ever provided....
Posted on August 6, 2008 5:22 PM • 281 Comments
Last week, we watched Evolve: Eyes on the History Channel; tonight, shall we watch the next episode, Evolve: Guts, together? Tune in shortly! A disgusting beginning: competitive eaters? Bleh. It's a basic introduction to mammalian digestive physiology — I can...
Posted on August 5, 2008 9:21 PM • 109 Comments
Tonight, at 9 Central/10 Eastern, it's time for the second episode in the History Channel's series on evolution: Evolve - Guts. It doesn't just take willpower to survive. It takes guts--in the form of a digestive system that turns food...
Posted on August 5, 2008 9:49 AM • 30 Comments
Ontogenetic allometry in the fang in the front-fanged Causus rhombeatus (Viperidae) displaces the fang along the upper jaw. Scale bars, 1 mm. We note the change in relative size of the upper jaw subregions: i, anterior; ii, fang; iii,...
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Posted on July 31, 2008 10:05 AM • 185 Comments
The warm-up act for this program was a dinosaur program called "Jurassic Fight Club", which was loaded with CGI and lots of gratuitous razzle-dazzle — but I thought it was a hoot. It also had enthusiasatic scientists talking about how...
Posted on July 29, 2008 9:50 PM • 184 Comments
Olivia Judson has a lovely article about ongoing examples of evolution. Before the creationists start whining, I know — they're still birds and lizards and flies. Get over it. They've changed, as evolution predicts....
Posted on July 23, 2008 1:56 PM • 182 Comments
Life has two contradictory properties that any theory explaining its origin must encompass: similarities everywhere, and differences separating species. So far, the only theory that covers both beautifully and explains how one is the consequence of the other is...
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Posted on July 23, 2008 12:28 PM • 63 Comments
Massimo Pigliucci has posted the notes, parts 1, 2, and 3, from the Altenberg meeting that was unfortunately over-hyped by the creationist crowd (no blame for that attaches to the organizers of this meeting). It sounds like it was...
Posted on July 19, 2008 11:04 AM • 43 Comments
I'm on my way home, and am actually using a fast internet connection at the airport — I'd forgotten what it was like! I quickly uploaded a few essential files, and my mail software is downloading my email. Unfortunately, I'd...
Posted on July 16, 2008 11:55 AM • 49 Comments
Remember Suzan Mazur, the credulous reporter hyping a revolution in evolution? She's at it again, publishing an e-book chapter by chapter on the "Altenberg 16", this meeting that she thinks is all about radically revising evolutionary biology. I can tell...
Posted on July 5, 2008 4:04 PM • 85 Comments
