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The following is a list of all entries from the Science Issues category.
Woohoo, Knoxville is in the Top 10 at Something
Filed in Environment,Local, May 30, 2008, 1:29 pmCO2 emissions… Smell the CO2.
ExpelledExposed.com is Operational
Filed in Science Issues, April 15, 2008, 5:54 pmhttp://www.expelledexposed.com/ This is a site created by the National Center for Science Education to debunk and disembowel the various fantasies at the heart of Ben Stein’s new docuganda piece Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. And it does it quite nicely I must say. I rather recommend.
It’s Time to Get Serious About Taxonomy
Filed in Primatology,Science Issues, February 27, 2008, 12:59 pmWe have a rant today. I’ve been doing the research for my next “meet an ancestor” today, and I keep coming across one word, “Cebidae.” Apparently, the ecology of our ancestor’s genus was similar to that of the Cebidae. Well, that’s quite interesting, or at least it would be if I knew at all what [...]
Happy Darwin Day!!
Filed in Science Issues, February 11, 2008, 9:20 pmIt’s Darwin Day tomorrow! Go forth and share with your friends, loved ones, aquantances, hated ones, and so forth all the Glorious wonders of science, reason, and heathen Darwin-worship. And be sure to burn the proper offerings of sacrificial finches and barnacles.
Whither morality?
Filed in Human Evolution,Science Issues, February 10, 2008, 11:39 amI recently read the statement, “I don’t know about anyone else, but I find the entire idea of an ‘instinctive morality’ highly disturbing. If we are to shrink and over-simplify our entire moral code down to the existence of a single instinct, we do great harm to its purpose and application,” and I found it [...]
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