Evolution Debate News

It is unfortunate, in some ways, that one of the world's foremost explainers of the theory of evolution also is one of the world's most notorious atheists.

Two of my favorite things about blogging are reading comments and talking to my readers, especially when it leads to a fun and engaging debate. However, some of the replies I get just beg for the kind of response that can only be done in a full blown post. Previously, it was a comment about alternative medicine that managed to cram virtually every pro-quackery cliché out there into a few sentences and an unintentionally ironic set of anti-science fallacies which epitomized most creationist arguments. And now comes this little tirade which would make the ghost of Albert Einstein’s jaw not just drop, but fall off its hinges if he were to come across it.

This was the last of three October hearing sessions. The next sessions are scheduled for November 17-19. The highlight of today was testimony by Taylor Strack, a student in Freshwater's class, who corroborated Zach Dennis' testimony about how the students' arms were positioned and what stopped the shock that Freshwater was supplying via the Tesla ...

Kirk Cameron, best known for his role in the 1980s sitcom Growing Pains , now spends much of his time advocating for far-right Christian evangelical causes.

The cause of this particular break-up? A shift in wing color and mate preference.Our paper provides a unique glimpse into the earliest stage of ecological speciation, where natural selection to fit the environment causes the same trait in the same population to be pushed in two different directions," says Marcus Kronforst, a Bauer Fellow in the Center for Systems Biology at Harvard University who received his doctor's degree at The University of Texas at Austin. "If this trait is also involved in reproduction, this process can have a side effect of causing the divergent subpopulations to no longer interbreed. This appears to be the process that is just beginning among Heliconius butterflies in Ecuador."

The following has appeared in the October edition of the Newsletter of the History of Science Society .

By forcing bacteria to evolve in ever-changing conditions, scientists have induced a behavior in which colonies formed by microbes with identical genes take radically different forms, as if one sibling in a set of identical quadruplets could sprout gills.

In the 150 years since the publication of Charles Darwin's landmark book, "On the Origin of Species," researchers have accrued massive amounts of evidence in support of evolution and the mechanics behind the process.

A painstaking analysis of thousands of genes and the proteins they encode shows that human beings are biologically complex, at least in part, because of the way humans evolved to cope with redundancies arising from duplicate genes.

Astronomers and physicists who feel motivated to rationalize their way out of the religious implications ofA the "Big Bang," typically conjure up unsubstantiated theories divorced from the scientific rigor they claim to champion.

Life is not a naturalistic phenomenon with unlimited evolutionary potential as Darwin proposed.

Believers in Intelligent Design have often been scorned as being opposed to science, but science itself is showing that it is the evolutionists who are opposed to rational inquiry.

Steve Fuller, persevering exponent of "affirmative action" for "intelligent design" creationism, really let loose in his anti-eulogy for the recently deceased Norman Levitt.

Ce nter for Science Education, critiques creationist Ray Comfort's new, antievolution version of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species .

When I blogged recently about a new, pro-creationism edition of Charles Darwin's On the O rigin of Species - complete with a rebuttal to the theory of evolution - the responses poured in .

In her column of Oct. 23, Globe Editor Carol Stark mentioned the Chinese concept of the conflict between the yin and the yang producing harmony in the world.

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A new global opinion survey shows that the British public continue to be confused about how evolutionary science should be taught in school classrooms and whether opposing non-scientific views should be included.

In a recession, Beaverton's Matt North has learned that doing repairs is good for business.

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