Tag: darwin
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September 15, 2008 03:31 PM EDT --
It takes an enormous amount of confidence to admit that you were wrong. This is true for scientists, whose hypotheses are constantly reviewed, criticised and shot down by peers. The constant improvement . . .
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February 12, 2008 01:24 AM EST --
On this date -- February 12th, 1809 -- two great men were born: Abraham Lincoln , Emancipator of American Slaves and Charles Darwin , Emancipator of the Human Mind
Their Positive Legacies . . .
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August 17, 2008 10:28 PM EDT --
I just saw this article on MSN and thought this was funny. What an idiot. Not that committing the crime wasn't already dumb but locking his keys in the getaway car and using a caulk gun as his weapon . . .
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October 03, 2007 03:40 AM EDT --
As I watched the last episode of Ken Burns’ “The War” tonight it came to me why there must be wars. No doubt, if you are male you will disagree with me, but I think my theory has some . . .
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November 24, 2007 02:03 PM EST --
We've had snow here for 2 - maybe 3 - whole days.
It is a little early to have the snowmobiles out.
It is especially a little early to have the snowmobilies out on the lake.
The lake is . . .
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September 17, 2006 11:52 AM EDT --
This was so interesting I thought I would pass it along.
In case you haven't received them yet, here are this
year's Darwin Awards -- the annual honor given to the
person who improved the "gene . . .
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December 08, 2006 01:55 PM EST --
Hypochondria is a disease of the brain. Famous patients have included Darwin, Tolstoi, Samuel Johnson, Boswell, etc.
Shown here is Dr. Samuel Johnson of 18th Century England. Johnson was . . .
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August 18, 2006 06:55 PM EDT --
While the religious right eats away at the edges of American culture I had thought their influence on education, particularly science education, was confined, primarily to Kansas, where we get to watch . . .
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March 21, 2007 07:07 PM EDT --
Yes, our page for today is one of our favorites, the Darwin Awards ! (http://www.darwinawards.com/)
The Darwin Awards is a website (and popular book series) that focuses on commemmorating those who . . .
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September 09, 2006 01:31 PM EDT --
Introduction
Although our current President does not believe in Darwin, the scientists do. Darwin slowly evolved into a great scientist.
Pictures of Darwin
Darwin did an enormous amount . . .
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May 28, 2007 11:17 AM EDT --
Products often carry a large number of warnings on them about the dangers of improper use, most of them the result of a really bad idea. What really bad ideas have you witnessed in action?
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October 11, 2007 11:12 AM EDT --
Fundies Say The Darndest Things! Installment #249
"I once heard that Darwin observed his child sleeping and noticed that he had a resemblance to an ape and thus formed his hypothesis. That would . . .
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June 02, 2008 04:57 PM EDT --
Intelligent Design is an explosive topic whenever it is discussed in mixed company, but for reasons that may surprise many of you...
For starters we need to understand that a belief . . .
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November 08, 2008 08:05 PM EST --
"In a letter to Joseph Dalton Hooker on February 1, 1871,[9] Charles Darwin addressed the . . .
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April 04, 2008 06:49 PM EDT --
Over the past year or so I've written, commented and bloviated on articles on religion, science, church-state separation, creationism, intelligent design, evolution... well, you get the . . .
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July 16, 2006 11:48 PM EDT --
In a quiet little part of Southeast Michigan, there's a quiet little town that gets more publicity that many of it's residents are really looking for. According to one legend, the town got . . .
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October 12, 2006 02:20 PM EDT --
If Darwin was alive today, he would like the Beatles.
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September 23, 2006 06:57 PM EDT --
Man was created by The Lord. He did not evolve from monkeys in some African jungle. This is the stupidiest thing I have ever herd. God, our Lord, created man in his own image. It says that right in the . . .
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December 07, 2007 07:13 PM EST --
Opponents of evolution want to make a place for creationism by tearing down real science, but their arguments don't hold up. Rather than re-hash all the arguments the Creationist keep bringing . . .
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January 20, 2007 09:54 AM EST --
Darwin's critics acted like neanderthals.
One of these critics was a member of the Skull & Bones society at Yale and now lives in the house shown below:
When . . .
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