Creationism

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 May 1st, 2009

What? I hear you say. But, yes it is true. A talented geek (who shall remain nameless but I’ll call him Gary the Geek) has come up with an amazing invention. While looking into the area of future css and…

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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 December 12th, 2008

I just finished watching the excellent extended interview by Richard Dawkins of Derren Brown, the self-professed skeptic and psychological illusionist (watch it here) and he made several very good points at the end of the interview when he was explaining…

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admin on October 24th, 2008

I stumbled across the Landover Baptist Church site this morning - it cracked me up! The best ‘lets poke the stick at the nutters’ site I’ve seen, although I had already found the Eastboro Baptist parody of the pathetic (god hates fags)…

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