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In case you missed any of the material I gathered together for today, here’s the full rundown of posts: How Belief In “Theistic Evolution” Is Nearly As Much A Denial Of Science As Creationism Qualia Soup Lays Out The Basics Of Evolution Darwin’s Birthdaily Hilarity: Creationism Darwin’s Birthdaily Hilarity: People Are Not Animals! (and evolution [...]
Archive for February, 2011
Recap Of Darwin Day At Camels With Hammers 2011
February 12th, 2011 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Evolution, Evolution, Featured, Videos 
Tags: Charles Darwin 
1 Comment »7 Reasons Not To Celebrate Darwin Day
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke I have been chastened. Next year: no Darwin Day posts. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Biology, Biology, Evolution, Evolution, Videos Tags: Charles Darwin No Comments »Darwin's Daily Routine
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke There’s a fascinating website called Daily Routines, which documents, in its own words “how writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days”. Via Francis Darwin’s memories of his father’s life, they have an entry on the rigid routine of Darwin’s life in his middle and later years: 7 a.m. Rose and took a short [...]
Kansas vs. Darwin
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke From today through March 12, you can screen Kansas vs. Darwin. Description of the film: Even before they took place, the 2005 Kansas school board hearings on evolution were recognized as a pivotal battle in America’s ongoing war over teaching evolution in the public schools. Organized by believers in Intelligent Design and convened by creationists, [...]
Listen Here To An Audio Book Of Darwin's "Beagle Diary"
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke BBC Radio 4 ran readings of Beagle’s Diary as its Book of the Week in December 2006. Here are all five episodes: Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, and Episode 5. A description of the book from The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online: The Beagle Diary is read by Jo Stone-Fewings. Each episode is introduced by historian [...]
"Who Could Heed The Words Of Charlie Darwin?"
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The Low Anthem’s sublime song and beautiful video for their song “Charlie Darwin”: I had the pleasure of seeing the Low Anthem a month ago at the Jazz Center at Lincoln Center. They played most of the songs from their new album, Smart Flesh (due out in ten days) and their first album,Oh My God [...]
Pearl Jam vs. Social Darwinism
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A really well made music video for their otherwise mediocre song “Evolution”: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Evolution, Evolution, Music, Music, Music Videos, Music Videos, Political Satire, Political Satire, Videos Tags: Animated Shorts, Animation, Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam's "Evolution" 1 Comment »Darwin's Birthdaily Hilarity: How God Came Up With Evolution
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke And by God, I mean Mr. Deity, of course: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Religious Satire, Religious Satire, Satire, Satire 1 Comment »Rebutting "Irreducible Complexity" Claims
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A couple of months ago I profiled a spectacular video in which Qualia Soup succinctly, clearly, and precisely debunked the creationist argument that within organisms there are designs which are so irreducibly complex that they could not have evolved but must have been intelligently designed. In reply to that video came criticisms from creationists and [...]
Posted in Biology, Biology, Creationism, Creationism, Evolution, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, Science, Science Tags: Irreducible Complexity 1 Comment »Islamic Apologist, Shabir Ally, Argues Quran And Evolution Are Consistent
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Of course I disagree, but I’m sure glad he thinks so and hope more Muslims do too. Your Thoughts?
Dennett: Darwin Had The Single Greatest Idea Anyone Ever Had
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke This is a terrific video in which Dennett and Dawkins get further into the weeds discussing the dynamics of evolution, responsibility, how you can make living things out of dead stuff and conscious ones out of unconscious ones, the wonder of natural processes, the idea that we have souls—but they’re made of neurons, and many [...]
Posted in Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Biology, Biology, Daniel Dennett, Daniel Dennett, Evolution, Evolution, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Mind, Science, Science, Videos Tags: Charles Darwin, Complexity, Daniel Dennett, Meaning, Purpose, Richard Dawkins, Teleology 1 Comment »You're A Good Man, Charlie Darwin
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke via Caliph of Zephyrs Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comic Strips, Comic Strips, Evolution, Evolution, Parody, Parody Tags: Charles Darwin 1 Comment »Human Evolution Made Easy
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Darwin’s “little heresy”: Thanks to Meko. Your Thoughts?
Missing Links?
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Are there any such things? Is there any legitimate reason to talk about “missing links” when it is a term beloved by creationists and used to spread misunderstanding about evolution? Greg Laden has an interesting, very long, post all about whether or how we should use this term. Your Thoughts?
Best Use Of Evolution In A Beer Commercial Ever.
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Thanks to Tony for the heads up. Your Thoughts?
Richard Dawkins: Waking Up In The Universe—Growing Up In The Universe
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A great video: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Biology, Biology, Evolution, Evolution, Science 4 Comments »"Evolution Is A Blind Watchmaker"
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A simulation addressing Paley’s watch argument by demonstrating that if the components watches are made of had the same basic properties that the components of organic beings have, then they could have evolved just as well: Thanks to Eric for the find. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Creationism, Creationism, Evolution, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, Science, Videos Tags: "Clocks", Coldplay, Irreducible Complexity, William Paley 2 Comments »The Story of the Scopes Monkey Trial, Narrated By Edward R. Murrow (And Footage Of Inherit The Wind)
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Beautiful speeches from Inherit the Wind are here and here. I’m pretty sure this film would be too controversial to shoot and release to mainstream audiences with this script in America today. Your Thoughts?
Darwin's Birthdaily Hilarity: People Are Not Animals! (and evolution never happened)
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Edward Current makes the case: Your Thoughts?
Darwin's Birthdaily Hilarity: Creationism
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke DarkMatter2525 sums up creationism: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Comedy, Comedy, Creationism, Creationism, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, God, God, Parody, Parody, Religion, Religious Satire, Religious Satire, Satire, Satire No Comments »Happy Birthday 202nd Birthday, Charles Darwin!
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Keep checking the full blog all day for a number of great material on evolution I have tracked down (with a lot of invaluable and much appreciated help from my Facebook friends!) as we celebrate Darwin’s discovery which changed the world! You just might find something for the creationist in your life. If you know [...]
Posted in Arts, Comedy, Comedy, Evolution, Evolution, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Religious Satire, Religious Satire Tags: Charles Darwin, Michaelangelo, Novelties, Sistine Chapel 4 Comments »How Belief In "Theistic Evolution" Is Nearly As Much A Denial Of Science As Creationism
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The following is a repost from December 24, 2010: One often hears the refrain that it’s possible to believe in both God and evolution. And it is in fact true, both psychologically and, more importantly, logically, that one may both believe in God and in evolution. Psychologically we have ample evidence that plenty of people [...]
"Today, There Is Joy."
February 11th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Will Wilkinson gives an eloquent defense of the joy in Egypt today: I admit that I am more than a little tempted to rain on the parade and note that Mr Mubarak’s departure guarantees nothing and that it is not unreasonable to fear a turn for the worse. There’s a tiny, stability-loving Burke on my [...]
Nothing To See Here…
February 11th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Sorry if you clicked on a post that went up earlier called “On Final Ends”. I accidentally had scheduled it to automatically post before I was finished writing it. As it wound up posting it was too long, too unfocused, and too intemperate in places so I have taken it down. The topics I was [...]
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