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Teaching the controversy – A.C. Grayling

8 January, 2010 (20:07) | Science | No comments

Drivel Tags: education, evolution, ID, Religion, Science

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Life altering planetary experience

2 October, 2009 (06:42) | Environment, Science | No comments

By David Suzuki with Faisal Moola
Insurance companies, politicians, and businesspeople often use the expressions “natural disaster” or “act of God” to deflect responsibility for events beyond our control. Today, human activity and technology have become so powerful that we are contributing to what were once natural disasters.
Hurricanes, tornadoes, freak storms, floods, droughts, pest outbreaks, heat [...]

Distribution of Life: The Iguanas of Gal&aacutepagos – Richard Dawkins

31 August, 2009 (07:56) | Science | No comments

Richard Dawkins explains how the distribution of life on Earth’s continents and islands is exactly as we should expect if life evolved, and exactly how we should NOT expect if it had been created.

Drivel Tags: evolution

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Come on in the water’s fine

5 August, 2009 (06:53) | Science | No comments

really interesting and I’m inclined to believe it, except of course the white coats over at Greg’s place have neatly deconstructed it.

Drivel Tags: elaine morgan, evolution, Paleoanthropology, TED, water ape theory

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An Age Old Question Answered

9 July, 2009 (16:03) | Science | No comments

From time immemorial people have wondered why there are more, well lets be frank, ugly people in the world than there are beautiful people. Well the answer is now in. Attractive males release fewer sperm.
Attractive males release fewer sperm per mating to maximise their chances of producing offspring across a range of females, according to [...]

Science: Talking to the Press 101

11 June, 2009 (18:46) | Media, Religion, Science | No comments

Anthropomorphizing must be avoided at all costs. Find another way to get your point across. If you don’t you leave yourself open to being quoted out of context by creationists. Here is a prime example of what NOT to say, taken from an otherwise fascinating article on the creation of self assembling (not self replicating) [...]

Lewis Black on the Old and New Testament

7 June, 2009 (20:44) | Humor, Religion | No comments

Lewis Black at his best

h/t to Greg

Drivel Tags: evolution, Lewis Black, new testament, old testament, Religion

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Why We Believe in Gods

25 April, 2009 (15:13) | General, Religion, Science, Sociology, video | No comments

Via Richard Dawkins
Andy Thomson gives an excellent talk titled ‘Why We Believe in Gods’ at the American Atheist 2009 convention. If you have an hour to spare this is well worth it.

Drivel Tags: Andy Thomson, atheism, Charles Darwin, cognitive mechanisms, evolution, god, Gods, On the Origin of Species, Origins of religion, Psychology, Religion, Richard [...]

Oh Canada

18 April, 2009 (00:24) | Religion, Sociology | No comments

A recent survey of 1,000 Canadians, on attitudes towards religion, performed for Canwest News Service, found 58% of Canadians identified the country as Christian. What was even worse though (except for the first one) was

58% “definitely believe in God” a down from 63% in the last 6 years
52%, including 70% of believers, think Jesus [...]

Judgment Day — Intelligent Design on Trial: Nova

14 February, 2009 (17:15) | Religion, Science, Sociology, video | No comments

Drivel Tags: ceationism, controversy, Darwin, Dover, evolution, idiots, intelligent design

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