evolution

On June 4 and 11 I am teaching a community education course titled "How Evolution Works." Apparently scientific community ed courses aren't very popular, but I tried to keep it simple and make it clear that it didn't require any prerequisites: Apparently the ploy worked, at least a bit, because...

Creationists say that evolution is wrong, that the earth couldn't have been formed except through God's will, and that humans didn't evolve. In fact, they deny that evolution works at all. But the major flaw that I've noticed in their arguments is that all they can do is tear evolution down (and...

Anyone else watch it? I rolled my eyes a bit at some of the language used like "proof" and some other words I've come to avoid after more than a decade in the Crevo debate, but it was an absolutely wonderful show. The first part about the fossil hunters who might have finds stored in private...

We are all familiar with the standard evolution chart of an ape on all fours gradually evolving into an upright homo sapien as seen on this news report of the recent discovery of the lemur. Does anyone have a link to a more complete chart going back further (to the days when our ancestors were...

I'm personally intrigued by the discovery of this fossil, which is supposedly so old that it gives scientists invaluable knowledge on our origins. Anyone else heard of it? http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/may/19/fossil-ida-missing-link

I am looking for any and all interesting ways in which the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection could be falsified. I have heard of such general ideas as: * The skull of a modern animal found in rocks measured to be much more ancient * One species giving birth directly to a completely new...

Abiogenesis takes another step forward with a plausible pathway for self-assembly of RNA from "non-living" material. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/science/14rna.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=science Not the complete picture but another brick to add to a growing wall of evidence for abiogenesis.

I think we all know that the term "creationist" can mean quite a variety of things, depending on the topic. There are creationists out there (and they are probably in the majority) that simply ignore all the evidence pointing towards evolution. Then again, there are many others who don't so much...

In another thread, Kurious Kathy has claimed that "DNA research" somehow opposes evolution: As it would be off-topic in that thread, I've started this one so that Kathy can explain how "DNA research" opposes evolution. Over to you, Kathy.

A law proposed in Alberta and supported by the Education Minister would require schools to notify parents in advance of "subject-matter that deals explicitly with religion, sexuality or sexual orientation,". The bill, if passed, would allow parents to ask that their children be excused from...

I used to have a good list of these things. But, I don't know where it is, right now. Perhaps some of you could help me rebuild it. I am looking for any and all of the most fascinating computer simulations of evolutionary processes. In particular, those that demonstrate how "Irreducible...

This is probably old hat for parents, but it may be of interest to others. In humans and some other animals, semen includes a prostoglandin, oxytocin, which is similar to or the same as the oxytocin released by pregnant women's pituitary glands to start the process of labour. Intending parents...

Biomimetics is the act of reverse engineering life forms, to see how they work, and to duplicate those systems in human machines. Here is the claim: Evolution is irrelevant to the field. It does NOT matter how those living systems originated. All we should care about is how they work now...

Apparently Charles Darwin predicted this fossil, and now it's been found. Canadian fossil find sheds new light on seal evolution