16 hours ago by hornykitten

The guy is a New Zealander (even though he’s presenting on an American televangelism program)….and he’s actually serious: And yet, for all the erotic overtones of the above piece you have to admit it’s topped by this one!: Hat tip: The Dunedin School.

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18 hours ago by GilDodgen

Here’s a little history that should interest UD readers concerning the modern ID movement. In my opinion, the following debate between Phil Johnson and Will Provine at Stanford in 1994 clearly defines all the issues — whether scientific, philosophical, theological, or otherwise — that are still with ...

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19 hours ago by admin

Human beings are created with a nature that takes pleasure in beauty, and with a desire to live in happiness and in well-being. Therefore, it is a completely natural human desire to be rid of unpleasant situations as quickly as possible, or to turn them into pleasant ones. In fact, being of a peacab ...

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19 hours ago by Allen MacNeill

A fellow blogger asked me recently "Why waste your time posting [at creationist and ID blogs] at all? You do not seem to have a receptive audience." Other people ask me why I generally treat creationists and ID supporters with respect, rather than taking every opportunity to heap scorn and ridicule ...

THE EVOLUTION LIST - evolutionlist.blogspot.com · 24 references

22 hours ago by The Curmudgeon

IN the Washington Post we read Creationism finds fertile ground in Turkey. The article starts out with an account of a biology teacher in Turkey who has been accused of atheism because she teaches evolution. Here are some excerpts, with bold added by us: What especially disturbed — and amused — the ...

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22 hours ago by idnet.com.au

Science 6 November 2009: Vol. 326. no. 5954, pp. 784 – 787 DOI: 10.1126/science.326_784 On the Origin of Religion Elizabeth Culotta “How and when did religion arise? In the 11th essay in Science’s series in honor of the Year of Darwin, Elizabeth Culotta explores the human propensity to believe in un ...

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1 day ago by bwanajoe

Carl Sagan was born 75 years ago. Image courtesy of NASA. Joel KontinenNext week, skeptics will celebrate Carl Sagan’s 75th birthday. Sagan, an astronomer and author who died in 1996, did not acknowledge the existence of the supernatural. For him, the cosmos was all that there is. Sagan often pointe ...

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1 day ago by The Curmudgeon

FOR background, here’s the website of the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE), and here’s a listing of their Members and the various committees on which they serve. All fifteen BOE members are mentioned, some more than once because they’re on more than one committee. That’s the current cast of pla ...

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1 day ago by Flannery

Noted Brown University biologist and slayer of windmills, Kenneth Miller, came to Birmingham, Alabama, on Thursday October 8. The room was packed with what seemed to be about 200 (mostly students and some faculty). Overall, Miller displayed the affable but subliminally arrogant attitude I’ve come to ...

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1 day ago by Joseph Steinberg

I took a break from horror films and talking points battles about Muslims in the US military to give myself a real scare, by entering the scary world of science politics: Randy Olson’s Flock of Dodos, a 2006 documentary laughing at both sides of the intelligent design-evolution legal battle. My wife ...

Left Flank - radicalcontra.wordpress.com · 1 reference