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Showing posts with label Evolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Evolution. Show all posts
Thursday, 4 July 2013

Does Creation science have any convincing arguments?

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Oxford Skeptics in the Pub hosted Peter Harrison this week.  He is based at St Andrews University (of which I am a graduate) so it was fun ...
Sunday, 16 June 2013

Dennett's Tools for Thinking

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I find it very interesting and informative and in fact generally pleasurable to listen to philosopher, ' horseman of the apocalypse ...
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Monday, 27 May 2013

Does an intelligent designer solve the ID problem?

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Having been reading about the Cambrian Explosion which I mentioned recently , it might be a good time to contemplate the creation of informa...
Saturday, 25 May 2013

Perspectives on the Cambrian Explosion

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I must have been listening to too much pro-ID propaganda!  (I have!)  The proponents of Intelligent Design put up a superb, almost-convinci...
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Wednesday, 15 May 2013

The bite of the honey bee

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Yes - I meant bite, not flight, and honey bee, not bumble bee.  But having misused the name of a famous piece of music for rhetorical purpos...
Sunday, 14 April 2013

Creationist science . . . or is it?

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Over lunch last week I found myself in an interesting debate with a gentle and progressive Muslim friend and a gentle and polite Christian f...
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Tuesday, 12 February 2013

Why are there no dragons?

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For Darwin Day, it seems appropriate to write a post about evolutiion. Evolution seems to have produced a wide range of surprising abiliti...
Tuesday, 30 October 2012

Determinism and chaos

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I have been listening to a talk recorded at Portsmouth Skeptics in the Pub , and published via the Skepticule podcast.  It was Jonathan Pear...
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Thursday, 25 October 2012

Discoveroids best effort last month

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A friend of mine received the following solicitation (for cash), presumably on the basis that he is sometimes an outspoken critic of so call...
Friday, 31 August 2012

More Darwin Fish

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One of the most popular posts here at Something Surprising was a silly tale about the Darwin Fish symbols that you sometimes see on people...
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Thursday, 16 August 2012

ID - not even a theory

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Creationists dress up their wacky beliefs in a variety of ways.  'Intelligent Design' (ID) is one that has been quite popular in rec...
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Monday, 23 July 2012

Is Evolution Predictable? Richard Dawkins speaks.

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You may like to view this newly published video of the talk given by Professor Richard Dawkins at Culham Science Centre in February 2012.  ...
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Tuesday, 19 June 2012

Creationist makes nearly ALL the common mistakes

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If you would like to practise spotting almost all the common mistakes that creationists make when the are speaking about evolution, I recom...
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Friday, 11 May 2012

Two Horsemen - without horses

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On Wednesday evening I was one of the people lucky enough to get a ticket to see two of the three remaining 'horsemen of the apocalypse...
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Thursday, 19 April 2012

The gorilla's genome says . . .

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The full genome of the last of the great ape species has been sequenced at last, and the results have been the cause of great excitement amo...
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Monday, 9 April 2012

Trilobites in 3D

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We've all seen pictures of fossilised trilobites , from the Early Cambrian period. The classic view of a trilobite But in the Mad...
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Saturday, 18 February 2012

Things Christians Say, Part 3 - Dogs give birth to cats?

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A weekly series of responses to the things christians say to atheists, based on the video reproduced here on 30th January 2012 .  The aim ...
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Wednesday, 15 February 2012

St Valentine's massacre in religion wars

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A somewhat desperate article entitled " St Valentine's massacre in religion wars as Dawkins forgets full name of seminal Darwin boo...
Sunday, 12 February 2012

Darwin's Heretic - an exercise in logical fallacy

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The Intelligent Design (ID) community has pushed the boat out and made an entertaining little movie which they think will help to promote th...
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Wednesday, 8 February 2012

Poe's Law in action!

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This is the best example yet of Poe's Law in action on Something Surprising . I honestly can't tell whether the barely literate ...
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