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    OT: Pat Robertson - WWJD?

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    Viruses and the origin/history of life

    Must read for all the bio nerds here - wild stuff.
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    Undeniable evidence of FSM - home video!

    Amazing video proof of his greatness! P.S. I'd guess this was posted already, but if not, cool.
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    I've changed my mind - ID SHOULD be taught in schools

    Just as long as they follow this course as an example on how to do so.
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    Darwin Exhibit - Looks Sweet

    Even better, it's going to come to Chicago (I live in the southwest burbs thereof), I'll totally go and see this. Unfortunately, I get the impression that it will also attract brainwashed YEC hecklers and their big books of PRATTs. "DID YOU KNOW THAT DINOSAURS AND PEOPLE CO-EXISTED? WE HAVE...
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    Pope makes comments about evolution, disses atheists

    Nothing particularly surprising here, though I'm not sure who he's addressing besides maybe Richard Dawkins. Even Popes make strawmen!
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    Kansas Embraces ID

    Good to see Kansas leading the pack in scientific credibility again.
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    Breaking news: ID totally unrelated to creationism

    Note to creationists: if you're going to revise one of your primary texts marketted to public schools, make sure us evil atheists don't get ahold of early manuscripts!
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    Quote of the year by Daily Show's Jon Stewar

    On proponents of intelligent design not naming the designer: "They're not actually saying it's God, just somebody with the basic skillset to create an entire, working universe."
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    ID gets the smackdown from SETI

    Considering that SETI is one of IDists favorite talking points in terms of established detection of design, this has to sting a bit! Think they'll get a Christmas card this year?
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    True believer syndrome - homeopaths and creationists

    This is a bit off topic, but I wanted to point out something humorous/sad. The following is an article on MSN about a new meta-analysis concerning the effects of homeopathy, which concluded the following: Also this: However, let's see the true believer interpretation of this evidence...
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    Pat Robertson - WWJD?

    Pretty disgusting story.
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    Six lines of evidence, one common conclusion - evolution ain't going away

    Alright, so I wrote this out for another forum, and it's largely a rehash of stuff we've seen before. So much of a rehash, in fact, that I considered not posting it. However, it gives an overview of 6 of my favorite lines of evidence (really 5 with the 6th being thoughts on their convergence)...
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    OT: Flesh-eating caterpillar

    Sorry, this was too cool not to post.
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    No creationists willing to take the Quiet Thread challenge?

    Just in case you guys forgot, it's at the top of the forum. I actually applaud mark kennedy for making some effort to address one of these topics. Because, by and large, creationists talk a lot of talk on this forum, but there's literally an entire thread full of topics for which they have no...
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    Great historic quote by Alfred Russel Wallace

    Source. Just think, had history played out a little differently, creationists would be calling us "Wallace-ists." Really doesn't have the same ring to it, though.
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    U.S. Dominance in science and engineering slipping, study finds

    This came as no personal surprise, based on the average person's attitude towards science in this country. While it'd be unfair and an oversimplification to blame this on creationists, I do honestly feel that creationists carry some component of blame. The anti-science crowd (of which the...
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    Peer-reviewed examples of beneficial mutations and macroevolution/speciation

    I wanted to start a thread that I hope can be put into the C&E thread archive that can be used to dismiss two very common but serious creationist claims. And if not in that archive, be at least bookmarked by some to deal with these issues. The two claims that this thread is devoted to are as...
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    Is the definition or prokaryote fundamentally flawed?

    I figured I'd create a new topic so I wouldn't derail the other thread. From Wikipedia we have the following information regarding prokaryotes: By these standards, prokaryotes and eukaryotes represent whole separate domains of organisms. Prokaryotes are organisms without membrane-bound...