admin on May 15th, 2009

A while back I wrote an article on ‘micro-evolution’ and used the commonly quoted ‘Peppered Moth’ studies to illustrate natural selection and evolution. However, a recent commenter pointed out that in fact, the British entomologist Bernard Kettlewell’s experiments that set out…

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admin on April 22nd, 2009

In a recent post, I mentioned the term ‘macro evolution’ and said that I’d get back to that in a later discussion. Creationists like to use the terms micro and macro when discussing evolution and often refer to the former…

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admin on March 24th, 2009

I often read - and get comments here - of the kind, “how can you possibly believe that life came about purely by chance?”. Well, the answer is simple, I don’t. This is a ‘popular’ misconception of evolution and natural…

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admin on October 9th, 2008

Intelligent Design LOLIn my the first part of this series of articles about Intelligent Design I discussed one of the falsehoods that proponents of this ‘theory’ use to bolster their wacky ideas - namely, that evolution was invented by atheists. In this, the…

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admin on June 23rd, 2008

Intelligent Design LOLBit strong? Nope - they are and they actually know it, but presumably they are able to justify this on the grounds that it is for a ‘higher good’ or similar reason.

Let’s go over some of the commonly used ‘proofs’…

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