Daily Archives: August 13, 2009

Whale Evolution 101 with Richard Dawkins

The Richard Dawkins Foundation (RDF) has started producing some really high quality, excellent videos and posting them to YouTube. Here’s Richard Dawkins briefly introducing the basics of whale evolution:

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Intelligent Life on Other Planets Just Got More Probable?

According to MSNBC today, astrobiologist Milan Cirkovic thinks we should look at younger stars as well as older ones for intelligent life, reasoning that it might not take 4.5 billion years, as it did on Earth, to arrive at an intelligent species. … Continue reading

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Jerry Coyne: An Angry Evolutionary Biologist Fed Up with Religion qua Religion

University of Chicago evolutionary biologist, Jerry Coyne, has run out of patience with Americans who reject the theory of evolution (that is, most of them). At his blog this past week he wrote: The dominant strategy of scientific organizations engaged … Continue reading

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A Recent UFO Caught on Video by the BBC

Last week, the BBC caught an unidentified flying object passing through one of its live video feeds. No, it doesn’t mean it was an alien spacecraft from another planet or dimension. Nor does it mean that it was a fast moving … Continue reading

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