Archive for the 'evolution' Category

Dec 05 2007

Chimps Outperform Humans at Memory Task

Published by admin under evolution, science & space, video

“Testing the mental capabilities of chimps tells us important things about our own capacity. What we often find is that antecedents of human behavior and reasoning exist in chimps in a more primitive form, suggesting that we humans have elaborated on the mental abilities of the common ancestor we shared with chimps, rather than developing totally new capacities.

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Dec 04 2007

Rare Mummified Dinosaur Unearthed

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Rare Mummified Dinosaur

Scientists on Monday announced the discovery of what appears to be the world’s most intact dinosaur mummy: a 67-million-year-old plant-eater that contains fossilized bones and skin tissue, and possibly muscle and organs.

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Dec 03 2007

The Celestial Teapot

Published by admin under creationist myths, evolution, video

As promised, I found the YouTube posting with an excerpt from the excellent Richard Dawkin’s documentary ‘The God Delusion’. This is all that’s really needed to expose the ‘intelligent design theory’ as a complete fraud.

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Nov 30 2007

Video ‘Growing Up in the Universe’ now available free online

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Richard Dawkins - 'Growing Up In The Universe'
Just found this on Richard Dawkin’s site :
The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science is proud to announce that it is now offering all 5 hours of Richard Dawkins’ 1991 Royal Institution Lectures for Children titled “Growing Up in the Universe” for free online! Click here to watch:
http://richarddawkins.net/growingupintheuniverse

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Nov 21 2007

The internet is a wonderful thing…

Published by admin under creationist myths, evolution

And it may turn out to be one of the things that plays an important part in the end of religion eventually.

A search for anti-evolution websites will yield hundreds - if not thousands - of them out there.

Most have one thing in common: the shameless regurgitation of the same set of lies and half-truths (apart from the contributors obvious lack of education).

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Nov 20 2007

Judgement Day : Intelligent Design on Trial

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In 2005 the town of Dover, Pennsylvania, was torn apart by a landmark trial which essentially pitted religious faith against Darwinism in explaining the origins of life. A case was taken by the local high school science teachers against a Pennsylvania school board for demanding the teaching of “intelligent design” i.e: creationism - over evolution.

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