The “ClimateGate” email “scandal” about climate change reminds me very much about the manufactured controversy about evolution and Charles Darwin. How so? In the case of evolution, deniers will frequently make accusations that Darwin was racist, or misogynistic, or anti-Semitic as “evidence” that evolution by natural selection is unreliable (or untrue). Whether those claims about …
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Human Evolution Bones at Five Below!
Saturday evening, I was at Five Below with my daughter, shopping for a Christmas gift for a gift exchange (we got a lava lamp, in case you’re wondering) and came upon this little gem. I was amazed. I’d never seen any kind of evolution “toy” before other than the great stuff from Charlie’s Playhouse, but …
One of these things is not like the others
One of these things is not like the other… I added Ray Comfort’s edition of Darwin’s book to my collection yesterday. The font of his edition is intolerably small… except for his vacuous introduction, which is in a normal, easy to read font size. I’m pretty sure I have a copy that was from the …
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Evolutionary Shenanigans
Here’s another snippet about Palin’s newly-verified creationist beliefs from The Daily Beast. In her new book… …[Palin] finally comes out of the closet as a creationist—or as she puts it, “the C-word.†In doing so, however, she manages to obscure the extent of those creationist beliefs by citing her acceptance of “microevolution.†Oh, microevolution! It’s …
Charlie’s Playhouse and Evolution Toys
A few months ago, I bought the Giant Timeline Poster from Charlie’s Playhouse. I wanted to get the Giant Timeline, but I knew I didn’t have room for it (though I know better now!) and figured I could hang the smaller version on the wall somewhere so my daughter and I could have fun reading …
Casey Luskin cries censorship
Casey Luskin of the Discovery Institute is all up in arms about censorship because, he claims, the Smithsonian-affiliated California Science Center cancelled its screening of the “documentary” Darwin’s Dilemma when it found out that the film was promoting intelligent design. While I agree that censorship is generally not good, Luskin seems to (again) misunderstand that …
You tell her, Christopher!
Via Pharyngula comes this video clip from the movie Horror Express starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing as rival archaeologists battling to stop a prehistoric ape-like creature with supernatural powers from going on a “mind-controlling killing spree.” (description on Netflix …sadly unavailable for rental) httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIdV60cT0PQ I love it.
Intelligent Design’s 8 Biggest Fails
Intelligent Design’s 8 biggest fails from Discover. Well worth taking a look!
Ray Comfort and Charles Darwin!
It seems that Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort have decided that they want to get in on the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by giving away free copies of the book to college students. While that seems both generous and out of character, it turns …
Richard Dawkins has nearly infinite patience
Richard Dawkins has a DVD titled The Genius of Charles Darwin which includes interviews with various people about evolution. Today, in a post on Pharyngula, PZ Myers told folks from the Secular Student Alliance that, if they’re engaged in conversation during their visit tomorrow at the Creation Museum in Kentucky, they can probably expect the …
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