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This is the first in a series of postings about a new book by Jonathan Wells: The Myth of Junk DNA . The book is published by Discovery Inst...

September 9, 2004 Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, C.C., C.M.M., C.O.M., C.D. Governor General Rid...

David Klinghoffer, posting on the Discovery website, says that his worldview might be attractive to atheists [ What Intelligent Design Offer...

Yesterday the Canadian government under Stephen Harper was defeated for contempt of parliament [ Canadian Government Falls ]. This is the fi...

This is how a parliamentary system of government works. The following motion just passed in the Canadian House of Commons by a vote of 156-1...

The earliest direct estimates of the size of human genome clustered around 3,000 Mb (megabase pairs) or 3.0 ×10 9 bp (base pairs). The tex...

This is an old video from 1991 but it does an excellent job of explaining punctuated equilibria. That's because it features Niles Eldrid...

One of the cool things about studying your genealogy is that you can find connections to almost everyone. This means you can celebrate dozen...

Bill Dembski thinks that in this video William Lane Craig makes a very good case against science. This is from 1998. (The other two people a...

This is the Liberal candidate for Federal Parliament in my riding. I've gotten to know him over the past few years and I can affirm that...

PZ Myers on Salon reviews a book that I'm never going to read [ David Brooks' dream world for the trust-fund set ]. Unfortunately h...

Ontario has two schools systems—both publicly funded. The "public schools" are open to all comers but the "Roman Catholic...

Sometimes it's a good idea to let the other side have a say. It can be very revealing. This is from The Epistemological Deficiencies of ...

Most male mammals have spines on their penis. The spines are small keratinized projections that are connected to sensory receptors. We don...

Jesse Bering is an evolutionary psychologist at Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK). He blogs at Bering in Mind on the S...