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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?
Archive for the ‘Evolution’ Category
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?
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 [...]
Cat Faber's "The Words Of God"
February 6th, 2011 Daniel Fincke This is another, meditative Sunday afternoon song, each of I’ve lifted from either this post or its comments section). This one though is not satirical and should be genuinely amenable to the more sophisticated theist (or pantheist or other believer in a philosopher’s god of some sort), who wants more God in her view of [...]
Evolution Made Us All
February 6th, 2011 Daniel Fincke It’s Sunday! Gather round all ye atheists to join in singing a god-free hymn about the maker of all things bright and beautiful: Evolution Made Us All from Ben Hillman on Vimeo. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Comedy, Comedy, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Evolution, Evolution, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Religious Secularism, Religious Secularism, Satire, Satire, Secularism, Videos Tags: Mother Theresa, Osama bin Laden 2 Comments »PZ Myers Video: Science And Atheism Are Natural Allies
January 30th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The first, and most interesting, claim: “Nothing will ever prove that evolution is wrong.” Second, and second most interesting, claim: “Nothing can prove the existence of gods, not one thing.” Third, and third most interesting, claim: that all this entails not closed-mindedness but pragmatism. Fourth, and fourth most interesting, claim: atheism is more than what [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Biology, Biology, Evolution, Evolution, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, PZ Myers, PZ Myers, Science 5 Comments »Telling About Kissing
January 5th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Greg Laden gives the thumbs up to Sheril Kirshenbaum’s new book The Science of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us and sums up some fascinating takeaways about kissing: Kissing is not a human universal. Not all cultures do this. The history of kissing is complex and interesting, to the extent that we know about it. [...]
Posted in Evolution, Evolution, Science Tags: Greg Laden, Kissing, Science of Kissing, Sheril Kirshenbaum No Comments »Dawkins Debunking The Story Of Noah’s Ark
December 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Bible, Bible, Biology, Biology, Evolution, Evolution, Religion, Religion, Science Tags: Richard Dawkins No Comments »How Belief In “Theistic Evolution” Is Nearly As Much A Denial Of Science As Creationism
December 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke 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 believe in both and logically it is clear that [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Biology, Biology, Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens, Cosmology, Cosmology, Creationism, Creationism, Divine Intervention, Divine Intervention, Evolution, Evolution, Featured, God, God, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophy Of Religion, Religion, Religion, Religion and Science, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates, Science, Secularism 12 Comments »Refutation Of Irreducible Complexity Arguments
November 28th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The great Qualia Soup is back, with a video explaining the problems with the anti-evolution arguments which rely on the idea of irreducible complexity. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Biology, Biology, Creationism, Creationism, Evolution, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, Religion, Religion, Religion and Science, Science, Videos Tags: Charles Darwin, Duane Gish, Evolution of the Eye, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, Qualia Soup 1 Comment »Subjective Valuing And Objective Values
October 6th, 2010 Daniel Fincke In reply to my post a week ago on the incoherence of saying that we relied upon God, or at least religion, in order to either discover or verify what was good and evil, Clergy Guy asks: Daniel, do you have some thoughts on defining good and evil apart from religion? How do we/should we [...]
What Would Darwin Say To Today’s Creationists
August 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Eugenie Scott on both the stagnation and the devolution of creationism since the time of Darwin: Your Thoughts?
Evolution To The Rescue In The Gulf!
August 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Nature is amazing: Deep sea microbe populations are evolving in response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster, helping to digest the oil that continues to contaminate the Gulf of Mexico, according to a study published today (August 24) on the ScienceExpress website. The findings provide tantalizing clues that the ocean is evolving in a way that will [...]
The Evolution Of Jaws
August 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Dan Dennett’s Response To Rick Warren
July 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke 4 years old, but evergreen: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Evolution, Evolution, Religion Tags: Daniel Dennett, Rick Warren No Comments »Steven Pinker And Adam Gopnik Debate Darwin
July 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Biology, Biology, Evolution, Evolution, Science Tags: Adam Gopnik, Charles Darwin No Comments »65 Million Years With A Creationist
July 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke I love a long story whose point doesn’t cinch until the very last three words at the very end. Don’t skip ahead!!! Your Thoughts?
Tom Rees On Why Loss Of Faith Might Be A Two Generational Process
July 2nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life study this February revealed that less than one fifth of all American adults under 30 report regular church attendance. But they still also overwhelmingly claim belief in God. Tom Rees thinks that despite their beliefs, their abandonment of the pews may indicate that a multi-generational secularization [...]
Posted in Evolutionary Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology, Psychology, Psychology, Religion, Religion, Social Psychology, Social Psychology, Social Sciences, Sociobiology, Sociobiology, Sociology, Sociology Tags: and Culture at the University of British Columbia, Centre for Human Evolution, Cognition, Costly Signaling, Credibility Enhancing Displays, Joe Heinrich, Pope John Paul II, Religion in America, Signaling, Tom Rees No Comments »Beyond Agnosticism: More Details About How I Know Various Kinds Of Gods Do Not Exist, Based On Scientific And Philosophical Reasons
June 30th, 2010 Daniel Fincke While I agree with, and vigorously defend, the notion that there is an important difference between lacking a belief in gods (as an agnostic atheist) and believing there are no gods (as a gnostic atheist), I also think that atheists should not, based on the best available scientific evidence and philosophical arguments, merely lack belief [...]
Posted in Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Atheism, Atheism, Christianity, Christianity, Epistemic Justification, Epistemic Justification, Epistemology, Epistemology, Evidence, Evidence, Evolution, Evolution, Featured, God, God, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Mind, Problem of Evil, Problem of Evil, Religion, Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Skepticism, Skepticism, Why I Am Not A Christian, Why I Am Not A Christian Tags: Agnosticism, Personal God 9 Comments »
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