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Showing posts with label Darwin's Theory of Evolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Darwin's Theory of Evolution. Show all posts
Paleontologists working near Spain on the island of Minorca found fossils of what they’re calling the world’s largest bunny. Officially named Nuralagus rex this big bunny weighed in at more than 26 pounds . . .
Republican Senator Stephen Wise (Jacksonville), the chairman of the Florida Senate Education Committee, tried to pass a bill mandating the teaching of creationism in Florida public schools in 2009.
His bill failed, but once again Wise is attempting again to force religious instruction, disguised as an alternative to evolution, into the classroom.
...Science education advocates are alarmed by a bill before the Legislature that they say could force teachers to challenge evolution at the expense of settled science.
The American Humanist Association is proud to announce that Representative Pete Stark (D-CA) proposed H. Res. 81 to Congress, expressing support for designation of February 12, 2011, as Darwin Day.
This day recognizing the importance of science in the betterment of humanity. This resolution is a culmination of collaboration between Representative Stark, 2008 Humanist of the Year, and the American Humanist Association.
Darwin was a humble and religious man who realized the implications of his theory as a young man. He didn't publish his work and conclusions until he was an old man.
His ideas opned the eyes of many people and removed the religions blinders that has retarded European culture since the fall of the Roman Empire.
Rightard Tea Baggers have been buying this "Saturday Night special " by the thousands to prepare for the upcoming revolution against the US federal government.
The weapon has been featured on Fox News, NewsMax and the Weekly Standard.
Righties have been buying this gun like hot cakes.
It sells for $19.99 and white supremacists, the Klan, the John Birch Society, and other neo-fascist groups consider it their weapon of choice to restore the Confederate States of America.
This pistol will make America a lot safer directly after rightards fire the first round in anger.
Microbial activity in volcanic glass within the oceanic crust can produce micron sized pits and tunnels. Such biogenic textures have been described from the recent oceanic crust and mineralized equivalents in pillow lavas as old as 3.47–3.45 Ga from the Barberton Greenstone Belt (BGB) of South Africa.
In meta-volcanic glasses these microbial traces are preserved by titanite mineralization (CaTiSiO5) and on the basis of morphological, textural and geochemical evidence. Scientists beleive this may represent Earth's oldest trace fossils.
In a a related story, BBC reports that the first land plants appeared about 472 million years ago in what is now Argentina.
Kirk Cameron and his pastor decided to debate the atheist Rational Response Squad on the existence of God on NightLine. If you want to see what happens when educated secular humanists debate preachers and religious zealots, check out this Rightardia article: http://rightardia.blogspot.com/2009/09/kirk-cameron-spoof.html
It isn't pretty.
In
November 2009 Kirk Cameron will be distributing altered copies of
Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species" with his own preface that tries to
make Darwin look like an evil crazy old man who helped the Nazis take
over Poland, and may have loved monkeys in a strange, special way.
Okay, we
actually don't know what is in his preface, but either way, we thought
we would help Kirk Cameron and his important quest. We've
made the "Kirk Cameron Action Kit". Inside you will find everything you
need to fight those evil Darwinists!! Just watch as Kirk Cameron's
colleague Dick Tooley, leads you through the many benefits of the Kirk
Cameron action kit! WOW!
A British film about Charles Darwin has failed to find a US distributor. Darwin's theory of evolution is still too controversial for American audiences, according to its producer.
Creation, starring Paul Bettany, details Darwin's "struggle between faith and reason" as he wrote On The Origin of Species. It depicts him as a man who loses faith in God following the death of his beloved 10-year-old daughter, Annie.
The film was chosen to open the Toronto Film Festival which recently had its British premiere. It has been sold in almost every part of the world, from Australia to Scandinavia.
However, US distributors have passed on a film which would prove hugely divisive in the US because of Christian conservatives. A Gallup poll conducted in February indicated that only 39 per cent of Americans believe in the theory of evolution.
Movieguide.org, an influential site which reviews films from a Christian perspective, described Darwin as the father of eugenics and denounced him as "a racist, a bigot and an 1800s naturalist whose legacy is mass murder." His "half-baked theory" directly influenced Adolf Hitler and led to "atrocities, crimes against humanity, cloning and genetic engineering", the site stated.
Such histrionics are to be expected from evangelical web sites. Francis Galton, was actually the founder of eugenics. Herbert Spencer is considered the father of Social Darwinism that Charles Darwin never supported.
Of course, Moviegude.org doesn't mention the 1000 year blight that Christianity brought to Europe during the Dark Ages, the Crusades and the numerous religious wars that occured in Europe for centuries. Nor did the evangelicals mention the Spanish Inquisition that didn't end until the 1830's.
Jeremy Thomas, the Oscar-winning producer of Creation, was astonished that such attitudes still exist years after On The Origin of Species was published.
Darwin was a religious man who didn't write On The Origin of Species until many years after he visited the Galapagos. He was very concerned about the effect his book would have on religion.
Most scientists consider evolution to be closer to science fact than theory although many new discoveries have been made such as epigenetics. DNA studies have proven the relationships between different species. Human and chimp DNA is 96 per cent similar.
In fact, the typical human protein has accumulated just one unique change since chimps and humans diverged from a common ancestor about 6 million years ago. More than 50 genes present in the human genome are missing or partially deleted from the chimp genome.
Ardipithecus ramidus (A. ramidus) was discovered in Ethiopia and the results of years of study of this fossil were released last week. The fossil find was dated to 4.4 million years ago based on its interval between two volcanic strata. Anthropologist believe this creature is close to the missing link from which humans, apes and chimps developed.
It is a shame that the American distributors don't have bigger cojones. Paul Bettany is wonderful actor. Middle Class Warrior really liked his portrayal as Chaucer in The Knight's Tale, one of first movies that Keith ledger starred in.
When Darwin published his Theory of Evolution, werewolves and vampires went out of favor.
The possibility of a canine-human primate now seemed remote. Perhaps even more unlikely: a bat-human hybrid.
Of course, there is the Underworld series where werewolves called Lykins revolt against their vampire masters. Vampires are even more improbable.
Physicists Costas Efthimiou and Sohang Gandhi published a paper where they demonstrate, by virtue of geometric progression, that vampires could not exist.
It turns out that the vampire's method of feeding and reproduction would deplete their food supply very quickly. Their paper, "Cinema Fiction vs. Physics Reality," assumes that the first vampire appeared on January 1, 1600. By June 1602 everybody on the world would have had their blood drained.
In a upcoming meeting of the British Society for the History of Science, Brian Regal, a Kean University historian in Union, N.J., will demonstrate how werewolves tales which lasted for centuries, died out in folklore following the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859.
Today the creatures of folk lore are the Big Foot, the Skunk Ape, the Sasquatch and the Yeti. It's all due to Darwin and his Theory of evolution.
