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“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.
Often lost in these considerations is the possibility that chimps have actually elaborated some mental abilities more dramatically than humans.” from John Timmer’s article on ars technica.
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.
Preserved by a natural fluke of time and chemistry, the four-ton mummified hadrosaur, a duck-billed herbivore common to North America, could reshape the understanding of dinosaurs and their habitat, its finders say.
“There is no doubt about it that this dinosaur is a very, very significant find,” said Tyler Lyson, a graduate student in geology at Yale University who discovered the dinosaur in North Dakota. Read the whole article at Wired.
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.
It is also the most concise summary I have yet seen of an atheistic world view. Enjoy - share the link with friends and visit Richard Dawkin’s website (and buy the book!).
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
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).
Have a look at Evolution Facts.org for example. Pages and pages of ‘facts’ disproving evolution - most referring to texts and opinions from scientists from the 17th century - hmm.
Then, go to the TalkOrigins archive. I’d be surprised if every single ridiculous claim by the creationists isn’t rationally and logically explained and debunked there.
Of course, the fairytale believers always have an answer for every argument no matter how reasoned but at least you can say ‘well, go there and have a read - if you still believe the myths your preacher/annointed one/pastor told you are facts then I can’t help you!
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.
The plaintiffs successfully argued that intelligent design is a form of creationism and that the school board policy therefore violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Federal judge John E Jones III decision sparked considerable response from both supporters and critics.
I found this link today to the excellent Nova series about the trial that is now available to watch free online.
Many of us believe that there are, in fact, far more non-believers in a god than is generally reported. I'd be interested to see the results from the Poll below, so why not register your belief anonymously?
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