evolution

An engineered bacterium is able to copy DNA that contains unnatural genetic letters. I don't exactly understand how momentous this is, but Huffington Post has picked up on it quite quickly. This is where our resident experts will hopefully offer their opinions and explanations for us laymen.

In the new movie A Matter Of Faith a good Christian father gets to debate an evil evolutionary biologist....and wins! And he doesn't just win the debate but his daughter's soul! tZ6bUfOVf1g Might be interesting to watch just to see how much they actually get right about evolution and how much...

You don't have to convince me of the power of literacy. In my life I've profited from being literate, and even enjoyed the odd book for recreation. I currently have a reading list that I'm making my way through, albeit slowly, due to other demands of life. However, I was given a copy of...

Discovered close to the Burgess Shale. Steven Jay Gould would have been very excited. http://globalnews.ca/news/1141642/new-bc-fossil-site-could-be-worlds-most-important/ "A new fossil site discovered in Kootenay National Park may be one of the world’s most important, according to...

I have a friend I've grown up with who I often admired in the past. He has really turned to the far right over time though (didn't believe in man-made global warming, believes in some conspiracies). I've changed his mind on the global warming issue after presenting a lot of evidence (gathered...

This is a new twist from the radical right. It seems that believing in evolution means you can't be trusted to protect civil rights. Or so says Bryan Fischer. I'm not sure how that is supposed to work. How is evolution connected to civil rights? But what would it mean? There you go folks. If...

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2014/01/02/bill-nye-ken-ham-debate The debate will be on Feb. 4th at that zoo Ham infests. Aron-Ra plans to attend. :D

if you have ever been to Jason Lisle (he works for the institute of creation research) 's blog you will find he keeps calling people “chemical accidents” of evolution was true, and said caring for a baby was no different then caring for a drum of oil he tried to justify it by saying “By...

Evolution doesn't have a plan or a goal, but can you speculate as to what it's going to be like in the future? Is intelligence a long term survival trait? Or has it meant that humans, for example, have altered their environment to the extent that we'll no longer evolve? Are mammals a dead...

The fruit fly experiments in the early decades of the 1900s should have been the end of it. Fruit flies breed new generations every other day so that running any sort of a decades-long experiment with fruit flies will involve more generations of them than there have ever been of anything even...

This one is not sci-rfi, in fact it's academically robust, but the authors claim to have created a century's worth of work for scifi and romance novel writers. Consider the axis tilts of planets in our system. If our system had formed from a swirling disk of solar material as textbooks...

Just overheard a conversation on TV (The View?) where they were talking about a study showing that IQ scores have gone down 14 points in the last 100 years. One hypothesis to explain this is that intelligent women have fewer children than, say, crack whores. Barbara expressed her...

http://www.businessinsider.com/creationism-v-the-bible-bet-2013-3

I stumbled across an amusing tumblr. WTF, Evolution?

I warned a new facebook friend who's Catholic that I hoped she didn't mind me disparaging religion. She got around to asking some questions about evolution. What do you think of my answer/response? Can it be improved? Did I get anything flat wrong?

I always assumed that all publicly-funded schools in the UK had to teach the national curriculum, but it appears that isn't the case for the directly-funded free schools: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-20547195 and they have been able to teach creationism instead. This loophole has been...

I have a question... I am sure you're all familiar with the classic sentient alien depicted in science fiction - a humanoid in some sort of suit to make them look odd. I've heard people remark that statistically, the odds of a sentient alien species resembling humans even a little bit is very...

Lots of gems in this webcast, which was on live last night and made me a fan of Aron Ra. Ra posted the show on YouTube (below). Ray Comfort was infuriating in how he, in the first half, kept interrupting Ra, then complained about Ra interrupting him in the second half. Ra did a brilliant job...

We, as a species, are getting taller. This is not due to evolution, but to improved nutrition, particularly in childhood. A measurable change in our species has occurred because of a factor we have introduced and continued to improve...

Here's a question for DOC, edge, AvalonXQ and any other creationists on this forum: What did viruses do before the Fall of Man? Creationists explain such evils as predation and parasitism as resulting from God's curse on g=creation following the Fall of Man. It's their way of dealing with the...