Water on the Moon

NASA discovered there is plenty of water on the moon.
Experts have long suspected there was water on the moon. So the thrilling discovery announced Friday sent a ripple of hope for a future astronaut outpost in a place that has always seemed barren and inhospitable.
“We found water. And we didn’t find just a little bit. [...]

The Greatest Show on Earth

Dawkins gives an intro to his new book (which I have already pre-ordered).

Giberson

Karl Giberson and Darrel Falk have a column stating that they are scientists and they believe in both God and evolution.
We are scientists, grateful for the freedom to earn Ph.D.s and become members of the scientific community. And we are religious believers, grateful for the freedom to celebrate our religion, without censorship. Like most scientists [...]

Creationists hate honesty

It’s long been known that creationists love to quote-mine. They’ve long done it Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Gould, Albert Einstein, and plenty of other scientists in order to support their positions. No one is really all that surprised when they keep doing it again and again.
So it is nonchalantly* that I present yet [...]

No, they can’t

Yet another person thinks evolution and creationism can live side-by-side.
The image of the Virgin Mary is reported to have been seen on a tree stump in the village of Rathkeale, and thousands of people have flocked there. And yes, this is quite absurd.
But is it more preposterous to believe that that piece of timber, and [...]

Only a matter of time

Teachers in Florida can now officially use the word “evolution”.
For the first time, teachers can say it, they are now being taught how to handle this controversial subject.
The word evolution appears in student’s textbooks.
But when teachers get to that chapter, they say it’s always been a juggling act — how to teach evolution, without actually [...]

Old eggs, daphnia, and evolution

When predation is high, crustaceans and other water loving egg lay-ers are not hatched much. What often happens is that they will remain dormant until later in the year when the predators are much less active. This offers a great research opportunity into evolution.
By hatching these eggs, Hairston and others can compare time-suspended hatchlings with [...]

Oh, Jesus

There’s a story floating around the interwebbings that says “Study shows evolution guided by ‘invisible hand’” or some variation of that. Most of the actual articles take this idea too far.
A study in the University’s School of Psychology sought to explain how turn-taking has evolved across a range of species. The conclusion is that there [...]

New information

I’ve posted about “new information” in the past, but I recently wrote this for some friends and figured it may as well go up here, too.
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This is from a YouTube video by some dishonest creationists who poorly edited a video to make it look like Richard Dawkins couldn’t answer a question. It doesn’t deserve to [...]

How apt

From Conservapedia:
Attention Canadian evolutionists! Conservapedia now nearly ranks in the Google top 10 for the very popular search “evolution” at Google Canada! The Conservapedia evolution article ranks #12 at Google Canada for the search evolution![8] The article appears to be rapidly gaining prominence on the Canadian internet. Will this creation science wildfire spread to the [...]