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Archive of posts tagged evolution

Dinosaurs

Yummy! Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2425 Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2011

UK cleric receives death threats for supporting evolution

Here’s a sad story of a Muslim cleric who is also a scientist. He tried to expound evolution to Muslims but he experienced a backlash from the religious and, coupled with thinly veiled threats, was forced to backtrack on his previous evolution statements: I’ve already posted that scientists that are religious are in a dubious [...]

Irreducible complexity

A couple of videos from QualiaSoup regarding “irreducible complexity” and evolution: Irreducible complexity cut down to size Rebuttals: irreducible complexity Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2011

Accommodationists

Being open As someone said to me today, truth is truth, however it’s packaged. And “insulted” people just need to get over it. I’m a nice guy most of the time, yes, really! So apart from this blog I don’t normally go around shouting at people and at their irrationalities, but I will confront those [...]

Homeopathy

http://xkcd.com/765/ Unfortunately stupidity can be richly reward by society especially when the skills of critical thinking are not widely taught. Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2010

Would you Adam and Eve it!

Why Evolution Is True does a deconstruction of a flawed BioLogos article. Having read the rather desperate arguments in the BioLogos article I thought “Why did BioLogos even bother?”. Then I realised, BioLogos is nothing more than a religious forum, heavily slanted towards Judeo-Christianity, where people interpret scientific evidence with a God slant, where people [...]

Idiot educators?

A Panda’s Thumb article “Why science literacy is in trouble” discusses how a Canadian Assistant Professor of Science Education (Katarin MacLeod, Assistant Professor in Science Education at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, NS) deliberately(?) misleads by, for example, stating that evolution is only a “theory” for which there is not much evidence otherwise it [...]

50 Reasons I Reject Evolution

As informative as ever, Pharyngula (I can even spell it now!) provided a link to an article by Bobbie Jean Pentecost titled "50 Reasons I Reject Evolution". So funny! Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2009

I think

Charles Darwin, born two hundred years ago, published "The Origin of Species" one hundred and fifty years ago. The first diagram is a redrawn and colourised representation of an extraction from his "Notebook B" page 36 circa 1837 where we see Darwin documenting his ideas on evolution. A scan of Darwin’s notebook is also shown. [...]