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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Alain de Botton Tells Us the Good Things About Religion
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Here's a TED talk by Alain de Botton . He claims to be an atheist but he's promoting Atheism 2.0. That's a version of atheis...
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James Shapiro Publishes on
Evolution News & Views
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James A. Shapiro, author of Evolution: a View from the 21st Century has been criticized for being an Intelligent Design Creationist, or at ...
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Physicians Can Be IDiots
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Joseph A. Kuhn is a physician at the Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas. This is a Christian medical center associated with Baylo...
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Canadian Blog Awards: Science and Technology
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Voting for The Canadian Blog Awards ends tomorrow so this is your last chance to pick the best of the best(?). Most of you will be in...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
False Dichotomy
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A false dichotomy is when you are presented with two choices and told that if one is wrong then the other must be correct but there are a...
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The 2012 Edge Question
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John Brockman is, among other things, a literary agent with a large stable of famous scientists. He runs a website called The Edge and e...
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Scientists vs. Science Writers
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Follow the discussion on Ed Yong's blog Not Exactly Rocket Science [ Every scientists-versus-journalists debate ever, in one diagram ...
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Monday, January 16, 2012
What Does a Secular Society Look Like?
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Casey Luskin wonders What Would the World Look Like if the New Atheists Won the Day? . He's just read Penn Jillette's new book, G...
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The Mind of James Shapiro
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I recently read Evolution: a View from the 21st Century by James Shapiro. It was a very annoying and frustrating experience. I do not recom...
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Saturday, January 14, 2012
Phytoplankton Blooms
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This is a spectacular view of a phytoplanton bloom in the South Atlantic. It was taken by the Envisat satellite on Dec. 2, 2011 [ A South...
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Turn Off Your Irony Meters Before Reading This!!!
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Back in the days of newsgroups (last century) the howlers in talk.origins developed a running joke about irony meters . They were always bei...
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Life: You Know It When You See It
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Carl Zimmer, who blogs at The Loom , is interested in definitions of life. His latest essay highlights a definition proposed by Edward Tr...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Weep for the Poor Persecuted IDiots
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The Intelligent Design Creationists at Evolution News & Views and Uncommon Descent have been pushing the idea that acceptance of evo...
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Monday, January 09, 2012
Monday's Molecule #155
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We're going to talk about the evolution of this molecule in my class tomorrow. It's a good examples for illustrating some basic p...
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Saturday, January 07, 2012
Recent Advances in Intelligent Design Creationism
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In case you missed it, 2011 was a wonderful year for the IDiots. There were many "scientific" breakthroughs supporting the exist...
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