Posts tagged: evolution
ID In Public School Classrooms
Here’s an excellent presentation by ERV given at the Oklahoma Americans United for the Separation of Church and State conference on Intelligent Design in public school science classrooms.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8433405459470913413
Excellent work ERV! We need more cute biologists people doing small presentations like this. Especially during the promotional drive of the Expelled creationist propaganda film whose ignorance of real science and deceitful tactics she addresses.
The curator (I’m assuming he’s the curator) makes a very good point at the end. Intelligent Design will not stop with science. Let me just say that again because it bears repeating.
INTELLIGENT DESIGN WILL NOT STOP WITH SCIENCE.
The Big Question - Why Are We Here?
It’s been almost two years since I first stumbled upon this video that introduced me to Richard Dawkins and his wonderful, humorous way of telling it like it is. I just stumbled across it once again and thought I should share it.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8572351836469636547
But Soft, What Light
Mike the Mad Biologist’s Skeptics in the Pub Lecture
Mike the Mad Biologist of Seed Magazine’s ScienceBlogs speaks on How to Defend Evolution the Right Way at the Boston Skeptics in the Pub.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4506496747144149427
World’s First Fornicators Found?
A new study suggests Funisia dorothea, tubular invertebrates which lived about 565 million years ago, may have been the first organisms to undergo sexual reproduction.
These living invertebrates use a reproductive technique that releases floating eggs and sperm to produce mass births of many offspring, called larval spatfalls.
In a paper that appeared in last week’s Science journal …
the researchers argue that the way the F. dorothea fossils were found suggests they might have used the same body positions to ensure sexual success.
“We can’t say ‘definitely’ about something that happened 565 million years ago,” said Mary Droser, study co-author and professor of earth sciences at the University of California, Riverside.
“But it’s very likely that this was sexual reproduction.”
World’s oldest profession indeed.
Obama Supports Evolution
Barack Obama did a short interview for the York Daily Record and was asked about his views on evolution. Until now, I wasn’t 100% sure where he stood on this very important issue. Now, I can rest assured that my candidate for president officially supports the teaching of scientific facts and not “… theories that frankly don’t hold up to scientific inquiry.” in our public science classrooms.
Q: York County was recently in the news for a lawsuit involving the teaching of intelligent design. What’s your attitude regarding the teaching of evolution in public schools?
A: “I’m a Christian, and I believe in parents being able to provide children with religious instruction without interference from the state. But I also believe our schools are there to teach worldly knowledge and science. I believe in evolution, and I believe there’s a difference between science and faith. That doesn’t make faith any less important than science. It just means they’re two different things. And I think it’s a mistake to try to cloud the teaching of science with theories that frankly don’t hold up to scientific inquiry.”
I’ve had that little button on side of my blog since I re-launched last month which pretty much spells out my support for Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election. Don’t worry. I’m not going to start pushing a ton of Obama down anyone’s throat. I probably won’t post too much in the political area at all unless it has to do with a politician’s views on science or religion. All that said, what I really want to see is…
Slow Lizard. Fast Evolution.
Experts say New Zealand’s “living dinosaur,” the Tuatara, is evolving faster than any animal studied to date.
New Zealand’s “living dinosaur,” the tuatara, hasn’t changed its look in millions of years. But the reptile is actually evolving faster than any other animal studied so far, new DNA analysis reveals.
Via: National Geographic News
