Awesome post a couple of days ago over at Starts With A Bang. It’s titled, “How Could We Affect The Earth?“, and it details in layman’s terms what exactly we’re talking about here. It’s said that there are lies, damned lies, and statistics, but there is no arguing with simple numbers that undeniably show we [...]
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Welcome, President Obama…
I have looked forward to this day for a long time, perhaps all my life. A politician has entered the highest office in the land, and he’s articulate, visionary and highly intelligent. Who woulda thunk it? We have had smart presidents in my lifetime before, and even articulate presidents (Bill Clinton comes to mind). But [...]
Happy 150th Birthday, Evolution…
150 years ago today, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace introduced the world to the theory of evolution by means of natural selection. Today, it is one of the most important findings in science and serves as the foundation of modern biology. July 1, 1858: Darwin and Wallace shift the paradigm The importance of their [...]
Gorillas in trouble…
Going through some posts I started and never finished. I’m a little late posting this, but better late than never. Sad news from Congo, and getting worse: Gorillas’ protectors besieged in Congo During three months last fall, militiamen wielding AK-47s also slaughtered thousands of hippos in Lake Edward, whose waters for a while turned red [...]
Bingo…
I’m trying to get back into blogging regularly, and I’m going through some older posts I never completed, so this is a little late, but still worthy of getting out there. The creationists are at it again: Bizarre Legal Thinking on Evolution and Creationism. What he said. I would respond with a biting rebuttal myself, [...]
