Evolution Schmevolution

[bailunrui]

This week The Daily Show will be doing a week-long special on the current issue of evolution. The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11pm on Comedy Central. Since my schedule at school is pretty hectic, I doubt I'll be able to stay up that long. Instead of doing a play-by-play and analysis during the show, I'm going to be doing it the day

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[txvoodoo]

I love you.

[bailunrui]

*gladly accepts your love*

[luna_k]

No, I LOVE YOU! ::sticks out tongue at voodoo::

I'm totally going to be glued to "Evolution Schmevolution" tonight. The guest is someone who wrote a book called "The Republican War on Science"!

[luna_k]

The Republican War on Science, by Chris Mooney: Does the Bush administration ignore or deny mainstream research to please its conservative base? Have business groups and certain religious lobbies helped it do so? Does Bush-era treatment of scientists differ from that of Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Reagan? Has a Republican Congress passed laws designed to disable clean air and water efforts, and has it dismantled safeguards, such as the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, meant to give legislators unbiased advice? Mooney's passionate, thoroughly researched volume answers these questions with an urgent "yes." A former American Prospect writer who is making his book debut, Mooney uses interviews and old-fashioned document-digging to explain how, over two decades, right-wing politicians built institutions designed to discredit working scientists; how some energy companies have allied themselves with powerful Republicans (such as Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma) to block or reverse U.S. steps to curb global warming; and how the

Re: Waves at Bailunrui

[bailunrui]

You are correct! I amended the post. Thanks for pointing that out. :)

[photosinensis]

Ooooh! A Liberal Rage series on evolution! I've taken a similar course on the subject that basically said on the first day that if you have a hard time swallowing the idea that all life on Earth decends from either one microbe 3.7 billion years ago or from a community of somewhat diverse microbs 3.5 billion years ago, there's the door.

Go TDS!

[bailunrui]

Hopefully, with your background in biology, you'll be able to help me support my arguments for evolution with scientific fact.

*loves TDS*

[fishsanwitt]

I'm looking forward to it :)

[bailunrui]

Me too! *g*