evolution

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...

My (ultra religious) brother sent this to me yesterday: http://www.kids4truth.com/watchmaker/watch.html Hey, it is all cutesy and cartoony and, and, it is from "kids 4 truth". I'm convinced. :D

Was watching MSNBC this morning and at the close of his show Chris Hayes mentioned that he'll be having someone from Kansas responsible for the most recent evolution bruhaha. I think it's a state rep, but didn't pay that close attention and the "Up" page was no help in determining who tomorrows...

I'd recently learned that Creationists were funding expeditions to Africa searching for dinosaurs to disprove the theory of evolution. It would appear that it is not just sauropods (Mokele Mbembe) that are in their sights...

Is it Snowing Microbes on Enceladus? Cool!

Rick Santorum, zealous promoter of religious dogma, thinks he sees "dogma" in the world of science, and he doesn't like it. The Elephant in the Room: Challenging science dogma So he starts by claiming that the scientific consensus regarding evolution and global warming has become "an...

Greetings, all. I recently read something that implied that humans may have the ability to enter a stupor of sorts; a low level hibernation like what bears do in winter. People have survived a much lowered core temperature than what used to be thought possible. I have no idea about that, but...

Hello, I'm trying to come up with a very specific example of an organic structure that meets the following criteria: 1. It's original "purpose" was different (for instance, arm/flipper). 2. It has not yet evolved sufficiently to be considered an optimal design. A few things I have found come...