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Friday, February 27, 2015

Here's how an atheist discusses the problem of evil

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Sophisticated Christian: My God exists and He is omnipotent, kind, and loving. He chooses to allow evil because X, Y, and Z. Atheist: If...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Bacterial resistance to antibiotics has nothing to do with evolution according to Michael Egnor MD

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Sorry, I couldn't resist. Here's what Michael Egnor says on Evolution News & Views (sic): No, Despite Often-Heard Claims, Antib...
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A quiz on Darwin's Theory of Evolution

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Someone named James Lewis at a blog named American Thinker seems to be upset about journalists who question politicians about evolution. He...
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Is the University of Toronto promoting quackery and pseudoscience?

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There's a conference this Saturday at the University of Toronto on the Scarborough campus. It features presentations by a number of lead...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Watch what happens when a Canadian politician says he doesn't believe in evolution

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Rick Nicholls is the Progressive Conservative Member of the Ontario legislature representing the riding of Chatham-Kent-Essex. (Ontario, is ...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

How do you explain the differences between chimpanzees. humans, and macaques?

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Here's a figure from a paper by Marques-Bonet et al. (2009). It shows the differences between various human genomes (blue); between the ...
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Monday, February 23, 2015

Should universities defend free speech and academic freedom?

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This post was prompted by a discussion I'm having with Jerry Coyne on whether he should be trying to censor university professors who te...
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Sunday, February 22, 2015

What counts as "evidence"?

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This post is a response to a question posed by Vincent Torley, " Is Larry Moran a conspiracy theorist? " A few weeks ago the Tor...
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Thursday, February 19, 2015

The top ten problems with evolution according to Intelligent Design Creationists

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Most of Intelligent Design Creationism consists of whining about evolution. Their main goal seems to be to discredit scientists and evolutio...
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Who's to blame for bad science communication?

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Most of us agree that there's a problem. A lot of what passes as science isn't being correctly communicated to the general public. ...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

How many scientists does it take to screw ... ?

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This morning I was flipping through the pages of the week's issue of Nature to see if there was anything interesting. There was. I'...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

The null hypothesis of Darwinian evolution, again

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I've read the paper by Schopf et al. (2015). Here's the entire section on Darwinian evolution. How could the seemingly identical su...
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Sunday, February 15, 2015

The null hypothesis of Darwinian evolution

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In my last class we discussed the view that natural selection is the only mechanism of evolution (false). We then discussed the view that ev...
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Happy 50th birthday to Canada's flag

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Americans have changed their flag many times 1 but Canada did it only once, on Feb. 15, 1965 [ Flag of Canada ]. Today is the 50th annivers...
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Vincent Torley and the evidence for god(s)

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Vincent Joseph Torley (vjtorley) didn't like my recent post where I said there was no evidence for the existence of god(s) [ Evidence fo...
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