Science Is Constantly Evolving
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When I was discussing the origin of the claim that “we may well suppose” occurs eight hundred times in Darwin’s two principal works a while back, I obtained a copy of Frank Allen’s Evolution in the Balances (1926), because David N. Livingstone, in his Darwin’s Forgotten Defenders…
According to a recent survey by PayScale, there is a giant gap between how millennials view themselves in the workplace and how they are viewed by their managers. Media fretting about how this alleged “slacker generation” is faring in adulthood often manifests in articles decrying the number of…
2016 is on target to be the hottest year ever (beating out last year for the record, and the year before that…). Plenty of us in the US are definitely feeling it right now. The heat in Arizona is already killing people, significant parts of California are on fire, and I have serious garden…
In God or the Guessers (1926), a copy of which (it will be recalled: part 1; part 2) I recently delightedly obtained, Leander Lycurgus Pickett quotes a whole, if brief, paragraph from Alexander Patterson’s The Other Side of Evolution (1903). Occurring in chapter 6 (“Evolution…
Kudos to all of you who recognized this week’s fabulous fossil as a lovely stromatolite—especially Dan Coleman who was the first to get it. I can tell you almost nothing about this particular specimen (Minda Berbeco snapped the photo at a conference), but I can tell you a great deal about…
Hey, Dads! I got you a present for Fathers Day! A whole bunch of great articles about evolution, climate change, and…fatherhood. You’re welcome! We Finally Know Why Birds Are So Freakishly Smart, Gizmodo, June 13 2016 — Turns out bird brains have more neurons per square inch than mammalian…
What oh what is this funny thing? It looks like a particularly beautiful topographic map. Of course, that’s not what it is. Can you figure it out? First to get it right wins heaps of praise…
NCSE's archives house a unique trove of material on the creationism/evolution controversy, and we regard it as part of our mission to preserve it for posterity — as well as for occasions such as Kitzmiller v. Dover, where NCSE's archives helped to establish the creationist antecedents of the "…
The mass shooting in Orlando’s Pulse nightclub was the deadliest mass shooting in US history, singling out gay and Latin victims, and committed by a shooter who bought military hardware despite having been investigated for claiming ties to terrorist groups. It was also the 176th mass shooting of…