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Glenn Branch of NCSE alerted me to this book: 1001 Ideas the Changed the Way We Think . He wrote some of the articles [see Creationism and E...

We're in Washington D.C. for a wedding. Our hotel is the Ritz-Carleton in Arlington, Virginia, right next door to the Pentagon City Mal...

It's always difficult to pin down an intelligent design creationist. They demand detailed "naturalistic" explanations of every...

We had a big ice storm in Southern Ontario last weekend. There are still thousands or people without power and many are unlikely to have pow...

I visited Finland for one day in August and now I can publish blog posts in Finnish! Seriously, Timo Kauppila has translated my Evolution ...

The Princeton Guide to Evolution is a collection of 107 articles on various aspect of evolution. The editors felt they should address the o...

One of the problems in most debates and discussions in the problem of definitions. It's common for two opponents to end up talking past ...

A few days ago, I asked the following questions, Is the "Modern Synthesis" effectively dead? , and What do they mean when they say...

Here are the questions on yesterday's exam for students in my course. Students will be graded on their explanations and not so much on t...

Today is the day of the final exam in my course on critical thinking and scientific misconceptions. I thought my students would get a kick...

Last week's molecule was the drug pantoprazole , a proton pump inhibitor used to treat excess stomach acid or acid reflux [ Monday's...

As far as I'm concerned, the "Modern Synthesis" has been replaced by modern evolutionary theory that incorporates Nearly-Neutr...

The "Modern Synthesis," or modern evolutionary synthesis , refers to a framework of evolutionary theory developed and promoted by ...

Chris Mooney thinks that humans have certain innate tendencies that predispose them to believe in god(s) and reject evolution. That's wh...

It's hard to think of anyone who's more irrelevant to my life or the life of my friends and neighbors. Time has also become irrelev...