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Recap Of Darwin Day At Camels With Hammers 2011
February 12th, 2011 
Daniel Fincke 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 [...]
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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 »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 [...]
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 »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 2 Comments »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?
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 »Scientists’ Spiritualities As Alternative Models Of Religiosity
January 5th, 2011 Daniel Fincke In my last post, I made clear that I am by no means an “accommodationist” who wants to let religious claims to hegemony over ethics, metaphysics, or epistemology go unchallenged as part of a deal whereby it agrees to either cooperate with or, minimally, not interfere with science education and science-based public policy. In a [...]
Posted in Astronomy, Astronomy, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Biology, Biology, Cosmology, Cosmology, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Featured, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophy Of Religion, Religion and Science, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates, Religious Secularism, Religious Secularism, Science, Science, Secularism Tags: Accomodationism, Adam Frank, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Chris Mooney, E. O. Wilson, Elaine Howard Ecklund, James Moore, Peter Doherty, Rudolf Otto, The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science vs. Religion Debate, The Origin of Species, The Voyage of the Beagle 4 Comments »
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