evolution

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...

I fully accept evolution as absolute fact with one aggravation that has bothered me for 23 years. what bothers me isn't that there isn't an answer but that every educator I have ever met has to LIE about it. There is simply no plausible mechanism for the initial formation of the first life...

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/11/30/379125/bachmann-evolution-censorship/ After all, evolution is only a "theory"...

In a school there is a geologist with an office. In that office there is a desk. A desk that seems just like so many others; with a cherry stained wood, hand crafted drawers, fingerprint smudged handles on those drawers, a top covered in papers and a seemingly field work abused laptop. But on...

TL/DR version: skip to highlighted line A few days ago I got into a slightly heated discussion with my sister. We were talking about what is, is not, can and can not be taught in schools here in Canada. For background, she will soon graduate with an education degree (English major) to...

Is self awareness accidental or selected through evolution? Consciousness has proven to be a difficult concept for scientific analysis because it's purely subjective and not subject to objective experimentation or observation, yet most of us accept that it exists. A number of books have been...

Hey all, I just ran across this story via an email from a friend at work and wanted to know what the consensus was here on the jref boards. I couldn't find anything with the search function so I thought I'd post it...

The NEW missing-link Red Herring Disputers of Evolution have been for years asking to be SHOWN the missing link. When link after link has been shown and they could no longer (shamelessly) keep asking for the links between the links they were repeatedly being shown....they shifted the Goal...

Why is the Theory of Evolution not incompatible with the phenomenon of regression toward the mean? Surely a population mean has to move over time for evolution to occur, but how does that fit with 'regression', and how does 'regression' reconcile with localised random mutation constantly...

So this is just too cool. http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/09/15/science-dinosaur-feathers.html

What future will we have....watch this and see if you can guess... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_NKgAaMthA&feature=player_embedded :yikes: :hb: :scarper:

Okay, hold onto your stomachs. Ann Coulter has a new essay with her anti-evolution views, and as usual, it's pretty demented. Anti-Evolution She basically claims that all the scientific advances in biology (since Darwin) prove that evolution is impossible. She still uses 19th century biology...

I wasn't sure if I should put this here or in politics but I kind of want to get the opinion of the science minded crowd. Backstory: we have local education board elections coming up this November and someone I sorta know is going to try and get on it by unseating a long time member with some...

Reading through randman's recent thread: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=215456 I've raised for myself questions that I've bumped into before and couldn't answer properly. I'm confused by the taxonomy of birds. Education by Wikipedia has failed me. I think the...