| Media Mum about Deranged Darwinist Gunman Thu, 02 Sep 2010 |
| | John West of the Discovery Institute Reports: But when a gunman inspired by Darwinism takes hostages at the offices of the Discovery Channel, reporters seem curiously uninterested in fully disclosing the criminal's own self-described motivations. Most of yesterday's media reports about hostage-taker James Lee dutifully reported Lee's eco-extremism and his pathological hatred for humanity. But >>more>> |
| National Apologetics Conference â€> October 15-16, 2010 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 |
| | This is an important event. I would encourage all UD readers to try to make it to it. I'll be speaking on ID. For conference information, click here. Copyright © 2010 Uncommon Descent. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you >>more>> |
| Evolutionary psychology gets busted by the morality squad? Thu, 02 Sep 2010 |
| | Caroline Crocker, of American Institute for Science and Technology Education (AITSE), writes me to comment, Scientific Integrity and Dr. Hauser Can being disorganized lead to scientific fame? Harvard University scientist Marc Hauser became famous for his work in cognitive evolution. As a psychologist who investigates the neurological basis for morality and works with primates and >>more>> |
| Coffee!! Darwin wrong? No! It couldn’t be! HuffPo to the rescue Thu, 02 Sep 2010 |
| | Alarmed at a science paper that questions Darwin, Steve Newton advises us at the Huffington Post that Darwin was not wrong when he argued that competition was the driving force of evolution. The article suggested that large-scale changes in ecology played a bigger role. Of course, they did. … When an ice sheet covered much >>more>> |
| “Subway Science†Wed, 01 Sep 2010 |
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| The Evolutionary Psychology Journal, Serious Entertainment Tue, 31 Aug 2010 |
| | “That scientific gentleman with the bald, egg-like head and the bare, bird-like neck had no real right to the airs of science that he assumed. He had not discovered anything new in biology; but what biological creature could he have discovered more singular than himself? Thus, and thus only, the whole place had properly to >>more>> |
| On the Vastness of the Universe Tue, 31 Aug 2010 |
| | Nevada is mostly empty; I mean really empty. Ninety percent of the state’s residents live in the vicinity of Las Vegas or Reno, and the rest of the state is all but uninhabited. I realized just how empty the state is when I was riding my motorcycle across the desert last month, and I passed >>more>> |
| Message from a really small part of the disastrous population overload Mon, 30 Aug 2010 |
| | A friend advises that Darwinist Douglas Futuyma’s recent book, A New Biology for the 21st Century informs us, Now more than ever, biology has the potential to contribute practical solutions to many of the major challenges confronting the United States and the world. A New Biology for the 21st Century recommends that a “New Biology” >>more>> |
| Evolutionary psychology: Pseudo-science’s biggest academic racket takes a hit? Mon, 30 Aug 2010 |
| | The fact is that monkeys and humans do not behave similarly in key ways, as should be obvious. Otherwise, why are they in our zoos and we are not in theirs? >>more>> |
| Evolution of live birth: Provided we ignore the placenta Mon, 30 Aug 2010 |
| | Here’s an article on the supposed evolution of live birth: … even the live-bearers have not got rid of the shell entirely. Baby skinks that are born live come out encased in a membrane — all that is left of the eggshell. With a bit of help from their mothers, most of them break out >>more>> |
