Posted on May 19, 2009 by Gezu Crankn
The link: Scientists Unveil Missing Link In Evolution (news.sky.com)
A quote:
Scientists have unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution.
The search for a direct connection between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom has taken 200 years – but it was presented to the world today at [...]
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Posted on August 5, 2008 by Gezu Crankn
Ed Darrell, Dave’s antagonist, Dave, the great admirer of the cuckold, but Ed comes to the rescue of science, in particular biology, lest it collapse as a consequence of the disbelief of evolution.
In the comments to Lysenko’s Legacy, Ed says,
Immediately we notice the Lysenkoist tactic of trying to separate genetics from biology, genetics from evolution, [...]
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Posted on December 16, 2007 by Gezu Crankn
The link: Creation college seeks state’s OK to train teachers
The institute was created in 1970 by the late Henry M. Morris, a Dallas native known as the father of “creation science,” the view that science – not just religion – indicates that a divine being created the Earth and all living things.
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Posted on December 5, 2007 by Gezu Crankn
The link: Why Science Will Triumph Only When Theory Becomes Law
Creationists and intelligent-design boosters have a guerrilla tactic to undermine textbooks that don’t jibe with their beliefs. They slap a sticker on the cover that reads, EVOLUTION IS A THEORY, NOT A FACT, REGARDING THE ORIGIN OF LIVING THINGS.
This is the central argument of evolution [...]
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Posted on October 17, 2007 by Gezu Crankn
Fury at DNA pioneer’s theory: Africans are less intelligent than Westerners
The 79-year-old geneticist reopened the explosive debate about race and science in a newspaper interview in which he said Western policies towards African countries were wrongly based on an assumption that black people were as clever as their white counterparts when “testing” suggested the contrary. [...]
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Posted on August 12, 2007 by Gezu Crankn
Jon doesn’t sweat the small stuff (meaning big stuff):
Can we observe evolution in progress?
It depends. Hypothetically, such a thing would require the observation of several hundreds, if not thousands and thousands, of generations. That’s the only way we’ll observe which mutations are selected for. In organisms such as ourselves, that would be a daunting task [...]
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Posted on August 10, 2007 by Gezu Crankn
In Various Stuff, Peter Woit is more upset than usual about so called pseudo-science. I don’t use pseudo-science; I use soft-science; that’s because pseudo-science implies that an assertion is all bogus. The deception lies in the fact that they, people with legitimate credentials, take some legitimate science and then pollute it.
But among his list of complaints is Unusual Features of Our Place In the [...]
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Posted on August 8, 2007 by Gezu Crankn
From Skull Suggests Two Early Humans Lived at Same Time,
All the changes to human evolutionary thought should not be considered a weakness in the theory of evolution, Kimbel said. Rather, those are the predictable results of getting more evidence, asking smarter questions and forming better theories, he said.
They’re so flexible about what they’ve never seen. [...]
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Posted on July 24, 2007 by Gezu Crankn
The title of a post by Denyse O’Leary is this:
Evolution in the light of intelligent design – making evolution make sense
So because evolution has big problems with explaining everything (so we say, though many will emphatically say not, though O’Leary has some quotes from evolutionists who also say so), supposedly ID makes sense of [...]
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