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Fruit flies made to de-evolve.
Funny how you can test evolution even though creationists and “intelligent design” people keep saying you can’t.
Evolution: +1  Creationist tripe: -3

Discovery.com
has an article on how evolution seems to have occurred in bursts (at
least in some instances). But what I wanted to point out was this:
During about two hundred million years, organisms grew
from cells invisible to the naked eye to organisms about the size of a
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I think there’s this misconception about how long we mean [...]

So I’m feeling all sciencey these days and just picked up ‘The Canon’
by Natalie Angier. It has a great little example in there that really
defines science and, inadvertently, why ‘intelligent design’ isn’t a
science AND why no one really thinks it is, even those who support the
idea.
My DVD player stops working the day I get [...]

I’m actually not writing this as an attack or even criticism of ID.
Its been bothering me for quite a while that supporters of ID can’t understand why it doesn’t belong in science classes. 
The core reason is that these people don’t understand what science is.  They think that science is a quest for truth, for fact.  [...]

OK, well, jeez…1. there is no debate about Intelligent Design in academia BECAUSE Intelligent Design has yet to say anything useable. Now, I’m not saying that there aren’t legitimate criticisms of modern evolutionary theory, but when all you bring to the table is “Here’s a problem that hasn’t been resolved, therefor there’s something magic [...]

The list of ways in which evolution is criticized and why they are wrong
And that, my friends, is why evolution is science and Intelligent Design is not.
When ID can stand up to the same standards that evolution can, then we’ll talk.

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Dear Dinesh,
What public highschools are assigning all these books on evolution???  I can easily see these showing up in college courses, but I can’t imagine that you’d be quite so concerned there.  I ask because those schools obviously have a very high academic bar and I’d like to send my kids there. 
When I was in [...]

Oh, Man-Cow, we hardly new ye

So, as you’ve probably heard, at some courthouse in Crossville, Tennasee, there’s now a statue of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (along with Jesus, etc.).
Someone, apparently, is quite upset by the whole thing.  Its not completely clear what he is upset about, but at the very least he is poorly informed about almost everything he discusses.  As [...]

PZ Myers, famed evolutionist, atheist, and general all-around smart guy tried to go to a screening of Expelled, a nice bit of propaganda put together by those who hate and fear science (and I say that not because ID is or isn’t true, but purely because it ISN’T science…if they can put together a scientific [...]