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Critical Massimo
Massimo Pigliucci, Ph D., is a professor of evolution and of philosophy at SUNY Stony Brook. He has three doctorates – in genetics, botany, and philosophy. He contributes to Skeptical Inquirer and...
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Canadian scientist aims to turn chickens into dinosaurs, destroy and/or...
So here’s the plan: Be Canadian. Be a scientist. Get a chicken embryo. Turn it into a dinosaur. ???????????????????? PROFIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here is the lede from PhysOrg (8/25): “After years spent...
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Monkey Music
A few years ago, perceptual scientist Josh McDermott of MIT and Harvard evolutionary psychologist Marc D. Hauser published a study (and here’s a laymen’s report on the report – YO DAWG I HERD U LIKE...
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Ray Comfort, still retarded
Bananaman Ray Comfort is distributing his own abridged version of copies of On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection to college campuses. I’m sure there are some interesting edits in...
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‘Uncanny Valley’ for monkeys
So there’s this psychological phenomenon called the uncanny valley. The valley refers to a dip in our approval of simulated human forms when it starts to approach very closely to actual humans while...
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Russian Creationists
New Scientist has this article about something an Archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church said about how evolution “should be taught to children as one of several theories, but children should know...
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The 5 Best Cases of Religious Schadenfreude
Schadenfreude isn’t even the best word to describe what you feel when you hear about cases like these. It’s a very specific kind of schadenfreude: one where you know that the subject’s irrational...
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This Post is About Israel But Has Nothing to do With the Palestine Issue
… which makes it a rarity as far as blogs in general go, I guess. OK so there’s this lesson we here in America ought to take from Israel, and that is that we should fire government officials who are in...
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PZ Myers Interview
PZ Myers is a professor of biology at the University at Minnesota Morris and has a very popular blog called Pharyngula. He’s an outspoken advocate for science and atheism and a critic of religion and...
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Paley’s Watchmaker
In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there; I might possibly answer, that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there...
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5 Fundamentalist Movies You Should Watch
GATES OF HELL I learned about this movie from Right Wing Watch, which is an organization that watches the right wing. And they watched the right wing pushing this movie, and it looks awesome. You might...
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Let’s Beat Up On Ron Paul
Last week on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart did a segment on how the media’s been conspicuously avoiding coverage of the Quixotic Presidential campaign of Ron Paul. His supporters loved it, probably...
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Blessed Are The Cheesemakers
So it’s getting close to the end of 2011 and like every other group of dipshits in the known universe, science-religion accommodationists are releasing lists of people and things which have warmed...
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School’s Out (Of Their Minds)
So this column’s going back to the multi-topic format, and we’ve got a school-related theme this week. It’s funny how I started this thinking it would force me to write within a certain formula only...
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Flat-Earthers Are Probably Smarter Than You
Flat Earthers believe our planet looks something like this. “It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.” -Thomas Paine Last weekend my Twitter timeline blew up when Kirk Cameron showed...
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The Epigenome Project: You Should Really Stop Looking at Porn
Suggested Musical Accompaniment: Particle Man by They Might Be Giants “I’m gonna beat you so bad that your momma’s gonna feel me for the next ten birthdays,” Tommy Costello called out before kicking...
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Bill Nye Says What We All Are Thinking
Bill Nye, who I admiringly refer to as Uncle Billy, pushed himself into the front lines in the war of Creationism vs. Science. In a video titled “Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children”he rails...
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