[Note this was written to follow on from discussions which began in comments on post "When you wish" below and continued into those of "Extraordinary". One of my most regular commenters on this blog, Eric, is trying to understand evolution. I, we, are trying to help him. This post arose from Eric's comment that "I [...]
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Kissing Cousins
Posted in Evolution, tagged creationism, Evolution, history, richard dawkins, science on January 23, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Sure and certain knowledge
Posted in Atheism, Climate Change, Environment, Evolution, tagged Atheism, atheist, Carbon Tax, Climate Change, creationism, ecology, environment, Evolution, global warming, religion, science on October 10, 2011 | 12 Comments »
It’s an odd little misunderstanding, just a minor difference in the way of looking at the world, but it has played a disproportionately huge part in making seven billion people content to allow a few energy companies turn off the world’s support systems and let them all die. So, what is it, this misunderstanding that [...]
The evolution of chocolate
Posted in Evolution, Media, tagged America, australia, charles darwin, creationism, education, Evolution, media, religion, richard dawkins, science on March 31, 2011 | 4 Comments »
There used to be, and still may be, a computer facility that allows you to program particular function keys on the keyboard to produce a whole phrase with one keystroke. Particularly useful for politicians (“there is only one poll that matters”, “I can’t comment on this because it is now the subject of legal proceedings”, [...]
Life is a lottery
Posted in Atheism, Climate Change, Education, Evolution, Media, politics, tagged Atheism, australia, Climate Change, creationism, education, environment, Evolution, global warming, media, religion, science, television on March 8, 2011 | 7 Comments »
There is a media ritual when there is a big lottery prize looming that involves an interview with a “number expert” who can tell you what the “lucky” numbers are, ie those which have come up most often. The number expert can protest until blue in the face that every number, every time, is equally [...]
Blowing in the wind
Posted in Atheism, Climate Change, Education, Environment, Evolution, Media, tagged Climate Change, creationism, education, environment, Evolution, global warming, media, religion on July 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Suddenly there were miracles, and magic remedies (homeopathy just the most egregious), and prayer, and creationism, climate change denialism, belief in ghosts and the afterlife, and heaven and hell, and mysterious forces, and supernatural beings, and faith healing, and magnets and crystals, and human domination over nature, and witches, and spirituality, all flooding back into human society and culture like an oil leak flooding into the Gulf
Wind meet whirlwind
Posted in Environment, Evolution, tagged conservation, environment, Evolution on May 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cleaning up a massive oil leak may turn out to be a doddle compared to putting genetics back in a bottle, getting rid of billions of organisms infesting a Gulf.
The lights are on, but nobody’s home
Posted in Evolution, tagged charles darwin, darwin day, earth day, Evolution, holidays, religion, science, united nations on April 9, 2010 | 5 Comments »
See if we can become a science based society living in the real world again.
Chimp business
Posted in Evolution, tagged charles darwin, creationism, Evolution, galapagos, speciation on March 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »
these people, whose brains scream maladaptation with every word they write, know, in fact, nothing of the evolutionary theories they are rejecting
The bulldog’s bulldog
Posted in Evolution, tagged charles darwin, creationism, Evolution, galileo, huxley on February 15, 2009 | 11 Comments »
I wonder, and it is like confessing a murder, whether they believe that had Darwin never lived, never voyaged on the Beagle, that the people of the world would have gone on, happily, accepting the truth of the biblical accounts of Genesis?
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