Category Archives: Evolution

Secular Students Mobilize Against Ray Comfort

by Jesse Galef
Ray Comfort recently decided to pollute the waters of intellectual integrity by printing his own edition of Darwin’s Origin of Species putting his own 50-page foreword [edit: corrected spelling throughout] at the beginning. This foreword misrepresents the theory in an attempt to discredit evolution, connect Darwin to Hitler, and generally mislead [...]

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Evolution Is a Fact

Richard Dawkins explains why evolution is a fact beyond reasonable doubt in his latest book, The Greatest Show On Earth:
Evolution is a fact. Beyond reasonable doubt, beyond serious doubt, beyond sane, informed, intelligent doubt evolution is a fact. The evidence for evolution is at least as strong for the evidence for the Holocaust, even allowing [...]

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Mr. Deity and the Science Advisor

The new Mr. Deity, with PZ acting as God’s science advisor:

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Colbert vs Dawkins

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Mouse Gets Beneficial Mutation, But Doesn’t Evolve Into Crododuck

Nebraskan deer mice have had a — gasp! — beneficial mutation that lets them live longer in the Sand Hills:
Within just a few thousand years, generations of the mice have evolved a sandy-coloured coat camouflaging themselves from predators.
Most striking is that these mice acquired the mutation for pale fur naturally, then rapidly passed it on.
That [...]

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Rift Valley Drifters by Roy Zimmerman

Roy Zimmerman sings about evolution and makes fun of the dining room table town hall fundies:

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Oliver the Chimp, a “Humanzee”

Solving the mystery of the “humanzee”:

(the other parts are on youtube)

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The Scientific Incentive to Disprove Evolution

Here is a good rebuttal to the idea that scientists have “faith” in evolution and don’t want to rock the boat, lest they risk their careers:
Science has always reserved its greatest accolades for those who prove what came before to be wrong, and every scientist in the world knows the best way to become famous [...]

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