What Is Intelligent Design?

She’s short and sweet, and so is her comment on intelligent design. When thoughtful parents have their children perform for the camera, it’s often funny and cute. In contrast, when religious and fanatical parents have their children perform for the camera, it’s often blatant indoctrination, and just plain scary.

Sea Monsters In Kansas

Who’s in the mood for sea monsters? One of the noteworthy books I read in 2007 was  Oceans Of Kansas - A  Natural History of the Western Interior Sea by Michael Everhart. In it Everhart gives detailed descriptions of the creatures that inhabited the Western Interior Sea, which divided North America from about 100 millions years [...]

Baby Mammoth On Ice

If you haven’t seen the 10,000 year-old carcass of the baby mammoth yet, check out the video. She’s a cute little bugger even in death. The six-month-old female was discovered in North West Siberia. You can read more about her at  BBC News.

Another Ken Ham Darwin Sham

Ken Ham, founder of the mega-creationist museum in Kentucky, has a new book out on Darwinism. Authored by Ham and Charles Ware, a bible college president, the book makes the specious argument that evolution is racism incarnate. The book is provocatively titled, Darwin’s Plantation: Evolution’s Racist Roots, and its premise is based on nothing more [...]

Noah’s Ark Discovered

 
Poor Mike Rowe, from the Discovery Channel show Dirty Jobs, had an early career hawking objet d’art on QVC. Like a skilled urban archaeologist, he deftly describes his find – the Ark of Noah. Except his Ark is a small garish highly-overpriced tote bag.
And check out the name on the side of that sturdy craft, it’s called the S.S. [...]

Evolution: What The Fossils Say – A Great New Book

For X-Mas, I was delighted to recieve a copy of the new book by Donald Prothero, titled Evolution: What The Fossils Say and Why It Matters. Being unfamiliar with Prothero’s previous published works, I mistakenly took the book to be a pretty coffee table book about fossils. How wrong I was.
Donald Prothero is a professor [...]

Happy New Year With The Natural World

After a night of partying (or not partying), let’s begin 2008 by appreciating a small corner of our beautiful planet Earth. The Galapagos Islands were where Darwin stopped to smell the ‘roses’, so they come highly recommended. Enjoy!
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