Bloggingheads with Sblings David Dobbs and Greg Laden
The Bloggingheads with David Dobbs and Moi is now up at Blogginheads, and embedded here: I had just posted a review of Dobb’s book, Reef Madness, which I enjoyed a great deal, and here we discuss the...
View ArticleReflections on the Origin of Species
The The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin was published 150 years go as I write this. At the time, several different alternative theories of the origin and history of life were being discussed in the...
View ArticleScience proves that God created everything out of nothing.
Accoring to Aubrea Wagner, the 17 year old winner of the Christian World View essay contest in which students were asked to write an essay on the following theme: Write a letter to Charles Darwin...
View ArticleThe best of the best in plant biology, conservation, photography, and evolution
I have about ten favorite species of tree, and one of them is the corotú. Why? Because of one of the most interesting plant-animal interaction stories of recent times. The story, complete with extinct...
View ArticleThe Oystercatcher and the Clam
One of those really cool and useful “evolution stories” gets verified and illuminated by actual research. And blogging! An oystercatcher is a wading bird of the family Haematopodidae, distributed in...
View Article“But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground…”
Have you ever read Natural Theology by William Paley? One could say that in it he makes the famous “Watchmaker” analogy. But really, the entire book is little other than the watchmaker analogy. If you...
View ArticleSupporting Your Local Life Science Teacher
Here is a way you can support the Life Science teachers in your local school. Give them a poster or a hat or a T-shirt or a book or something. I’ll tell you why in a moment. First, you have to find the...
View ArticleWhat Would Darwin Say to Today’s Creationists?
A talk by Genie Scott of the NCSE: __________________ Photo of Darwin Statute by KevinZim
View ArticleThe Rocks Don’t Lie (geology and flood myths)
The Rocks Don’t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah’s Flood by David Montgomery is new book on the Noachian flood. It is by a real life geologist and is not a creationist book. Might be a good gift for...
View ArticleIf a spider is in an Oreo Cookie, then evolution is true!
You know about the Atheists Nightmare, right? Also known as the Evolutionists Nightmare. No? It goes like this: That’s pretty darn convincing. Until someone opens up some closed thing and there is some...
View ArticleNCSE’s Genie Scott will Retire
My friend and colleague, executive director of the National Center for Science Education’s Genie Scott, will retire by the end of the year. She’s been director of the NCSE for 26 years. Genie is a key...
View ArticleGenie Scott: Denialism of Climate Change and Evolution
Here is a presentation by Genie Scott of the National Center for Science Education. Far more people are climate change deniers than evolution deniers, but both camps use similar strategies to promote...
View ArticleDoes parasite load really matter?
In behavioral biology there is a fair amount of attention to individual quality, which may be determined by genes or parasite load or energy balance, or some interaction among these (and other)...
View ArticleEvolutionary Psychology Panel at CONvergence 2013
There is now a video and a transcript of the Evolutionary Psychology Panel at CONvergence 2013. Many of you, when you watch this, will become enraged at things said by the panelists. Rumors of what was...
View ArticleWhitey Bulger Convicted, and the Trivers Willard Hypothesis
Whitey Bulger has finally been convicted of a small percentage of all the bad things he is said to have done. The Boston Globe has the details. James J. “Whitey” Bulger, the notorious Boston gangster...
View ArticleMy Atheist Talk Stuff
I’ve been a guest or interviewer on Minnesota Atheist Talk radio a number of times. I never talk about atheism because I’m nothing close to an expert on that or related issues (though I do have a...
View ArticleCatching Fire. The other one.
Catching Fire is apparently a very popular book and/or movie that everyone is very excited about. But Catching Fire is also a book about some interesting research I was involved in about the origin of...
View ArticleThe Accidental Species
The Accidental Species by my friend and colleague Henry Gee is a new, and excellent, book on Human Evolution. I recommend it. I’ll even review it soon. But in the meantime, you can get a free chapter...
View ArticleWho won the Bill Nye – Ken Ham Debate? Bill Nye!
In the Spring of 2010, evangelical Bible scholar Bruce Waltke, in speaking about the overwhelming evidence for evolution, said “To deny that reality will make us a cult, some odd group that is not...
View ArticleBill Nye’s Debate Victory Lap on The Last Word
Bill Nye “The Science Guy” went to the Creation Museum to debate “is creation a viable model of origins in today’s modern scientific era?” After the debate, Bill Nye came to the Last Word to discuss...
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