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“A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling, it would rather be a man, a man of restless and versatile intellect, who, not content with an equivocal success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into [...]

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40000 and counting

Fast-Reproducing Microbes Provide a Window on Natural Selection, by Carl Zimmer

In the corner of a laboratory at Michigan State University, one of the longest-running experiments in evolution is quietly unfolding. A dozen flasks of sugary broth swirl on a gently rocking table. Each is home to hundreds of millions of Escherichia coli, the common gut [...]

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blog against theocracy

blog against theocracy , Next: July 1-4

A blogswarm is where a group of bloggers from all venues agree to post on the same topic. Our loosely framed topic for this swarm is “the separation of Church and State is patriotic.” But this is about blogging, and we’re not trying to herd anyone. Post on [...]

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UK Gov boots intelligent design…

UK Gov boots intelligent design back into ‘religious’ margins

The government has announced that it will publish guidance for schools on how creationism and intelligent design relate to science teaching, and has reiterated that it sees no place for either on the science curriculum.
It has also defined “Intelligent Design”, the idea that life is too complex [...]

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Bill should be

…more careful and try to understand what he is reading.
Just go there and read his interpretation of 11297.
In fact, I hope that the Council will promote this report as much as possible. You must be an idiot to understand it as Dembski did. We didnt’ needed confirmation about Bill’s capacities of understanding but he kindly [...]

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Darwin’s greatest discovery: Design without designer

by Francisco J. Ayala,PNAS May 15, 2007 vol. 104 suppl. 1 8567– 8573
Darwin’s greatest contribution to science is that he completed the Copernican Revolution by drawing out for biology the notion of nature as a system of matter in motion governed by natural laws. With Darwin’s discovery of natural selection, the [...]

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How many honorary doctorates does Judge Jones have now?

How many honorary doctorates does Judge Jones have now?:
“ID is the intellectual elite’s equivalent of leprosy.” 
write Dembski. You may just read : ID is the intellectual’s equivalent of leprosy. You don’t need scoring more then 100 90 in a IQ test to understand how IDiot ID is And other diseases of the same kind [...]

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11297

PZ Meyers PZ Meyer PZ Meier PZ Myers, posted about the motion presented by Andrew McIntosh on october 2006.It may be more interesting to visit the Report of the Committee on Culture, Science and Education (Rapporteur Guy Lengagne).
Et en français, cadeau de Pangolina. Merci m’dame.
About France, where I hang, there are two entries :
57. The [...]

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mysterious scull

There is a quite interesting skull exposed.

Some people say that this is an artist’s creation. Some other people think that this could be just a downscaled representation of the V.I.D.E., the Very Intelligent Designer Err…1 Almost 100% brain and condemned to continuous feeding, as the rest of the body is quite atrophied and thus must [...]

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Dembski again,

making a fool of himself…
Instead of trying to respond something intelligent to Jerry Coyne’s review of Behe’s book all he manage to produce is comparison with … Now, go and check by yourself, this could be sound incredible, but it’s really true.And the usual mantra: “the Darwinists are in bad shape indeed”
I think the worst [...]

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