Kentucky’s GOP Lawmakers Question Standards for Teaching Evolution in Schools
Kentucky’s Republican lawmakers reveal the extents of their scientific illiteracy as they react to national standards calling for their students to have a basic understanding of biological evolution....
View ArticleBill Nye: When You’re in Love, You Want to Tell the World
…when you’re in love with science that is. Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. According to Bill Nye, if adults want to “deny evolution and live in [a] world...
View ArticleFrans de Waal | Moral Behavior in Animals
by TED.com Empathy, cooperation, fairness and reciprocity — caring about the well-being of others seems like a very human trait. But Frans de Waal shares some surprising videos of behavioral tests, on...
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What Neandertal DNA can Teach about Race, Autism, and More
“Why we should care: “Even if the science of human origins is still a work in progress, the accumulating information about how we got here and indeed what constitutes a member of the human race offers...
View ArticleRichard Dawkins | Religion not Useful, Evolution not a Controversy
Abstract: When we look at the history of religion, we are fascinated by it, in the same way we are fascinated by, say the history of art. But otherwise, religion has nothing useful to teach us about...
View ArticleTalk Origins: Evidence-based talking points
Many of you have been asking for a good resource to help solidify your knowledgebase and better articulate your developing science-based view of the world. A great starting point is the Talk Origins...
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‘Big things have small beginnings’– Immortality and the jellyfish
For fans of Doctor Who and its spinoff series, Torchwood, the news that the secret of immortality may lie in the tentacles of tiny jellyfish isn’t a surprise. This was a significant plot point of the...
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Nature, marriage, and how the Church doesn’t get sex or evolution
It’s hilariously tragic when people like Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George make idiotic statements like, “Marriage comes to us from nature.” Nature? Where the closest thing to marriage is often for a...
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Pope Benedict XVI Resigning From The Papacy At Age 85
Forget about the Devil. The Pope wears Prada. (No joke.) Last week Pope Benedict XVI (or “Benny,” as some of us affectionately refer to him) gave his two weeks notice and will be turning in his mitre...
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Angry gods and their magical forces
Gods have always been angry, and today’s gods are no exception. And like all gods, today’s gods have magical forces. We all know, for instance, that the god of Abraham is planning to rip San Francisco...
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