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Descended from a monkey? [Pharyngula]She'll be back: watch this mob of blinkered Republicans gush over Sarah Palin, especially Pat Buchanan, who makes up 'facts' as he goes along. The Republicans are accused of being a party that celebrates ignorance, Buchanan is asked if he accepts evolution, and he blithely confirms the accusation... |
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Sins of OmissionOver the last year or so, perhaps the defining characteristic of the anti-abortion lobby’s ‘contribution’ to the public debate surrounding the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill has been their willingness to resort, increasingly, to tendentious and disreputable lines of arg... |
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Church makes apology to Charles Darwin - 126 years after his deathThe Church of England will tomorrow (14 sep 2008) officially apologise to Charles Darwin for misunderstanding his theory of evolution. In a bizarre step, the Church will address its contrition directly to the Victorian scientist himself, even though he died 126 years ago. But the move was gre... |
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National Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Week [Terra Sigillata]When I went away to college after the summer when MTV was first launched, I had never heard of the term, "Historically Black Colleges and Universities." But during the following summer while taking organic chemistry, I lived in a dorm with two visiting HBCU students who were doing inte... |
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I'm trying not to be an insufferable know-it-all [Laelaps]To the credit of some Rutgers professors, I have been hearing a lot about evolution at the beginning of this semester. Although I did not do so intentionally, I wound up with three behavior courses (Animal Behavior, Social Evolution, and Socioecology of Primates), all of which introduce introduct... |
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Educating the slavesIt seems that the government—bowing to pressure from yet more special interest groups—are going to bugger about with the school curriculum again.Britain's involvement in the slave trade is to be studied by all secondary pupils in England from September.Oh, right. What aspects of it, I... |
