Showing posts with label Charles Darwin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charles Darwin. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 05, 2019

Darwin Day Celebration in Knoxville

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On Saturday, February 16, there will be a Darwin Day celebration at the Frank H. McClung Museum on the University of Tennessee Campus.  Here...
Friday, May 11, 2018

Truth is Stranger than Fiction: Galapagos Creationism Center to be Built

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The Adventist News Network is reporting that a new creationism center will be built on the Galapagos Islands: A large incentive project f...
Friday, April 20, 2018

The Slander of “Darwinism”

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Kenneth Miller has written yet another extraordinary essay , this one on the nature of the term “Darwinism” and how it is pejoratively used ...
Monday, January 01, 2018

A New Darwin Biography Gets Fisked

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Jerry Coyne, a somewhat outspoken atheist and author of the book Why Evolution is True, has written a review of a new book on Darwin titled...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Another Republican Gets Evolution Wrong

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This time, it is Rush Limbaugh, who, in one of his daily shows, questioned the wisdom of evolution.  Writing about the unfortunate incident ...
Friday, April 29, 2016

What Happens When You Get Cited by Young Earth Creationists

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This is an issue that has plagued Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge in the past, when you get misquoted by a young-earth creationist.  No...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

A Darwin Day Cartoon

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Ardziv Simonian,  at Exodus (A travel site), has put together a cartoon in celebration of Darwin Day.  It is a humorous look at the life of ...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

Petition to Ban Creationism and ID

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A petition has been submitted to Whitehouse.gov that calls for the banning of young earth creationism and intelligent design in the public ...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Io9 Misses the Point

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George Dvorsky at io9 thinks that the new Pope believes in evolution, but then gives us absolutely no evidence to back that claim up. He wr...
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Sunday, February 10, 2013

Barry Fagin: Darwin Day reminds us of intellectual integrity

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Barry Fagin reminds us of why evolutionary theory is such a good one and why it has withstood the test of time. He writes: Evolution is ...
Monday, February 04, 2013

Letters of Alfred Russel Wallace Online

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The collected letters of Alfred Russel Wallace, the co-discoverer of natural selection, have been put online by the Natural History Museum....
Monday, October 29, 2012

Yet Another "Beside the Point" Post From the Discovery Institute

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Michael Flannery pens yet another tiring post about the theology of Charles Darwin, as if, somehow, the religious persuasions of Darwin hav...
Friday, July 06, 2012

More Trouble For the “Ark-n-Park”

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The financial troubles continue for the Creation Museum's Noah's Ark display, or as Barry Lynn affectionately calls it, the “Ark-n-...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Rediscovery of a Lifetime

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According to a story in Planet Earth Online, a large cache of fossils has been rediscovered at the British Geological Survey, some of which...
Thursday, December 15, 2011

Transgenerationally Acquired Resistance?

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A new article by Rechavi et al, in the journal Cell ( http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2011.10.042 ) is reporting on research involving the ...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

The Charles Darwin Two Pound Coin

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Great Britain has released a coin that has Charles Darwin's head and that of a chimpanzee looking at each other. It is in honor of his...
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Friday, September 03, 2010

The Mendacious David Klinghoffer

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To borrow a phrase: Either David Klinghoffer isn't very bright or he doesn't think his readers are. Over at Evolution News and View...
Sunday, August 01, 2010

Panda's Thumb Reminds Us...

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...that it is " Happy Lamarck Day ." Lamarck is remembered chiefly for incorporation of an ingenious but ultimately failed hypoth...
Saturday, July 10, 2010

David Klinghoffer Practices Reductio ad Hitlerum Over at HuffPo

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David Klinghoffer has written another article over at the Huffington Post (cross-posted at the Discovery Institute's Evolution News and...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

The Evolution of On the Origins of Species

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Ben Fry has come up with an interesting take on how Charles Darwin's book On the Origins of Species by Means of Natural Selection chan...