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Recap Of Darwin Day At Camels With Hammers 2011

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 [...]

7 Reasons Not To Celebrate Darwin Day

I have been chastened.  Next year: no Darwin Day posts. Your Thoughts?

Darwin's Daily Routine

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 [...]

Listen Here To An Audio Book Of Darwin's "Beagle Diary"

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?"

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 [...]

Dennett: Darwin Had The Single Greatest Idea Anyone Ever Had

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 [...]

You're A Good Man, Charlie Darwin

via Caliph of Zephyrs Your Thoughts?

Human Evolution Made Easy

Darwin’s “little heresy”: Thanks to Meko. Your Thoughts?

Happy Birthday 202nd Birthday, Charles Darwin!

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 [...]

Scientists’ Spiritualities As Alternative Models Of Religiosity

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 [...]

Refutation Of Irreducible Complexity Arguments

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?

What Would Darwin Say To Today’s Creationists

Eugenie Scott on both the stagnation and the devolution of creationism since the time of Darwin: Your Thoughts?

Steven Pinker And Adam Gopnik Debate Darwin

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Daily Hilarity: Dana Carvey In “Darwin: Evolution Of A Madman”

Mostly a spoof of the atrocious Sherlock Holmes movie that Guy Ritchie made last year than about things Darwin: Your Thoughts?

Debunking Kirk Cameron And Ray Comfort

Really nicely done, particularly of note is that there is some great information about Hitler, religion, and Darwin: Your Thoughts?

Richard Dawkins’s Address To The Atheist Alliance International Convention 2009

From a week ago tomorrow, Richard Dawkins addresses the    Athiest Alliance International.  He reads the final chapter of his newest book, The Greatest Show on Earth which is an exegesis of the last chapter of The Origin of Species.  There are 5 parts so keep watching after the first video below! Your Thoughts?

Daniel Dennett On “Darwin’s Dangerous Idea”

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Kirk Cameron Announces Plan To Disseminate Lies

The plan is to distribute specially written copies of The Origin of Species which include a creationist introduction that slanders of Darwin (including attempts to blame Nazism on him) and creationist “refutations” of the theory to 50,000 college students on the upcoming 150th anniversary of the book’s first publication.  In protest I will be burning [...]

Really, America?

Creation, a new film about Charles Darwin cannot get any US distributors because of fear of fundamentalist backlash: However, US distributors have resolutely passed on a film which will prove hugely divisive in a country where, according to a Gallup poll conducted in February, only 39 per cent of Americans believe in the theory of [...]

Dennett On Evolution

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 [...]