It takes a special kind of doggedness to make an “Infographic” that rehashes debunked stories as if the debunking had never happened, but that’s what the Discovery Institute did the other day. Perhaps some of this nonsense is down to the background of the author, who appears to have zero science credentials. The other day,
I was idly perusing my rss feeds last week, when an article at The Dispersal of Darwin website (Hand-printed, hand-bound book about Wallace, Darwin, and natural selection) caught my eye. There are two attractive features: firstly, the physical attributes – this is a delightful hand-printed book – and secondly, the material in the book is of
Courtesey of the BHA, I see that evolution is to be added to the primary curriculum! (BHA welcomes plans to add evolution to primary curriculum): Evolution is to be included in the primary curriculum, it has today been announced. The Department for Education (DfE) has published its draft primary National Curriculum for science, which includes the teaching
Via NCSE Evolution: Education and Outreach for free | NCSE) and Panda’s Thumb (Evolution: Education and Outreach free in December), I see that the Springer journal Evolution: Education and Outreach is offering open access until the end of the year.
RationalWiki has published an exhaustive list of scientific evidence that evolution is a hoax. In summary: h/t Panda’s Thumb
On the gain of genes and gene function Michael Behe recently published a review article in the Quarterly Review of Biology entitled Experimental evolution, loss-of-function mutations, and “the first rule of adaptive evolution” (subscription required), which consists largely of a review of laboratory experiments addressing the adaptive response of microorganisms to simple environmental changes. Behe
The Institute for Creation Research reveal their scientific illiteracy. In a recent blog posting (No Fruit Fly Evolution Even after 600 Generations), Institute for Creation Research ‘science’ writer Brian Thomas misinterprets (deliberately or otherwise) two classic experiments in genetics, and one that has been recently published. The ICR website doesn’t permit commenting, presumably to exclude
The Daily Telegraph reported yesterday that a new hominid had been discovered in South Africa (Missing link between man and apes found – Telegraph). Apparently the discovery is of a skeleton (or, as it turns out from a quotation from Phillip Tobias skeletal remains from several individuals) and this is quite exciting since hominid fossils
The Theos think tank invites entries in a competition to summarise The Origin of Species in a tweet: Darwin’s Origin of Species evolves to a Tweet. Whether this turns out to be a good thing is probably rather moot! Theos say: Fans of Britain’s most famous scientist are being asked to encapsulate the over 600-page
One of the great stories about American cinema is that in credits for the 1929 Pickford-Fairbanks film version of “The Taming of the Shrew” was the line “With Additional Dialog by Sam Taylor”. Most unfortunately, it would seem that this just isn’t so, and it’s an urban legend. So, why is this turning up in