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By now you may've seen the Pew Forum's graph showing the proportion of people in the US of different religious beliefs who accept evolution, but for me more interesting is their overview of different religion's official stances on evolutionVery many Christian denominations see no contradiction between God's role as the creator of the universe and ( Read more... ) -
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Aha! I've been looking for this: a page torn from Archaeology magazine which explains why Native Americans were so susceptible to diseases brought to the New World from Europe, but not vice versa. Infections like measles, influenza, and smallpox killed millions of Native Americans. But why did they lack immunity ( Read more... ) -
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500 words of chapter 3. After far too much *&)^*(^ing around with worldbuilding AS USUAL. I think I'm running out of possible stuffing around now, though - I have a rough map of every planet mentioned in the story so far. Astronomy nomenclature is insane! Systematise, you bastards! What the hell does "CI 20-1290" even mean?! Nothing, that's what ( Read more... ) -
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ETA: Just found the latest news on this: Evolution wins a round in Texas education debate (23 January): "Board members voted eight-to-seven last night to drop controversial language in the state's curriculum that requires science teachers to discuss the “strengths and weaknesses” of scientific theories."
In Texas, a Line in the Curriculum Revives ( Read more... ) -
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Whales Had Legs Until 40 Million Years Ago, Fossils Show
Flinders Ranges may contain earliest multicellular fossils. (Here's an eight-armed example.)
Monitoring of creation studies left to schools: "Christian schools in NSW are teaching creationism or "intelligent design" with little or no monitoring of whether it is being improperly included in ( Read more... ) -
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I am perpetually frustrated in my efforts to find software that will let me see the galaxy in 3D, so that I can work out how far apart various stars are and where they are in relation to the sun. I have various freeware and shareware programs that do a half-assed job of it, and plenty of GIFs etc of local space, but all I want is a *(&)^)*&^ ( Read more... )
