I love it when reality interferes with crazy. This cool article and podcast comes from Mother Jones. The book that serves as the foundation for this piece is Neil Shubin’s Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body. This Fish Crawled Out of the Water…and Into Creationists’ Nightmares Some 375 … Read more
Every now and then a cartoon comes along that, through the use of a hilarious reductio ad absurdum, so clearly and succinctly demolishes creationism as a viable alternative hypothesis to explain the complexity and diversity of life, exposes its inherent irrationality, and makes clear its ulterior motivation and the double standards on which it is … Read more
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’re probably familiar with the various documentaries, debates and lectures Richard Dawkins has delivered over the years. Sure, his fame of late has to do with the religion/atheism and creationism/evolution controversies, but he’s a much more important thinker than that. Dawkins is such a prolific thinker … Read more
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution through natural selection provides a wonderful scientific explanation of biological adaptation and diversity. The theory is wonderful. The process of evolution itself is torturous, blind, indifferent, and cruel. And when you take a ruthless process, and mix it up with some extreme political and social ideology, what you get is … Read more