http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/crevolist/ en-us Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:34:47 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2052090/posts It’s our favorite libertarian-ish anti-idiotarian magicians, with a whole episode of Bullsh*t! devoted to ... yes ... creationism and its repackaged descendant, “intelligent design.” (Screams and pandemonium ensue.) Featuring footage from the Creation Museum, and interviews with some people whose names are often invoked during the LGF Evolution Wars, including Duane Gish of the Institute for Creation Research. The 3-part show carries a mild language warning; if you’ve ever seen Penn and Teller, you know what to expect. Little Green Footballs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2052090/posts#comment Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:34:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2030946/posts Praised until recently as dogma, Darwin’s theory of evolution is now fading away, discredited by the same science that bore its poisoned fruit. Instead, the Christian vision of a supernatural design is being increasingly affirmed. “Evolution is now a datum proven beyond any reasonable doubt and no longer a theory, it’s not even worth taking the trouble to discuss it.” This is what a spokesman proclaimed at the Festival of Science held in Genoa in November 2005, thereby neglecting a very important aspect of modern science—the need to be open to new perspectives. Instead, the truth is quite the opposite.... tfp http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2030946/posts#comment Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:50:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2028979/posts A major evolutionary innovation has unfurled right in front of researchers' eyes. It's the first time evolution has been caught in the act of making such a rare and complex new trait. And because the species in question is a bacterium, scientists have been able to replay history to show how this evolutionary novelty grew from the accumulation of unpredictable, chance events. New Scientist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2028979/posts#comment Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:07:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011153/posts Expelled seems to me to be the right-wing analog of Fahrenheit 9/11...An effort to take a preexisting belief about the illegitimate use of power, find some facts to fit to it, and do the rest of the work with insinuation and innuendo... ...But the obvious question for ID proponents is never asked: OK, this great science is being suppressed, so please show me the data, lab notebooks, scientific work papers, unpublished manuscripts, and so on that contain all of these amazing discoveries that nobody will confront. But we never see it... ...One argument the movie makes, without any support that... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011153/posts#comment Sun, 4 May 2008 20:46:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2003002/posts ...about intelligent design and evolutionIn the film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, narrator Ben Stein poses as a "rebel" willing to stand up to the scientific establishment in defense of freedom and honest, open discussion of controversial ideas like intelligent design (ID). But Expelled has some problems of its own with honest, open presentations of the facts about evolution, ID—and with its own agenda. Here are a few examples—add your own with a comment, and we may add it to another draft of this story. For our complete coverage, see "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed—Scientific American's Take. 1) Expelled quotes Charles Darwin... Scientific American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2003002/posts#comment Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:54:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973097/posts TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Florida education officials voted on Tuesday to add evolution to required course work in public schools but only after a last-minute change depicting Charles Darwin's seminal work as merely a theory. Bending to pressure from religious conservatives, the State Board of Education on a 4-3 vote included the "theory" language as part of a retooling of the state's science standards for public school education. The compromise would require teaching that Darwin's proposal -- that natural selection has driven the evolution of many species from a few common ancestors over billions of years -- has yet to... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973097/posts#comment Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:54:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1951064/posts Roger Highfield reports new work that shows feathery dinosaurs might not have been as common as experts thought Feathers are flying once again over Chinese fossils used to back the theory that birds descended from dinosaurs. Prof Theagarten Lingham-Soliar at the University of KwaZulu Natal, claims today to have "refuted" a suggestion that primitive bristle-like structures that adorn the tail of Psittacosaurus are prototype feathers, as claimed by those seeking evidence to back the widely accepted idea of avian origins. Psittacosaurus (the "parrot-lizard", named after its strong beak), stood about 4ft tall, was a plant-eater with strong back legs and... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1951064/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jan 2008 23:02:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1945606/posts The history of cosmology – the study of the Universe – for the last five hundred years is often portrayed as a clash between science on the one hand, and the cold hand of religious dogma on the other. Part of this is rooted in fact – the Catholic Church of the Counter-Reformation for instance was suspicious of intellectual innovation and experiment, with its harsher elements longing for the certainties of the age before Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. The desire to make the Universe fit into a pre-ordained and orderly scheme that needed no correction reached its infamous,... American Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1945606/posts#comment Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:50:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938386/posts Residents of various continents becoming increasingly different ~~~snip~~~ If evolution had been proceeding steadily at the current rate since humans and chimps separated 6 million years ago, there should be 160 times more differences than the researchers found. That indicates that human evolution had been slower in the distant past, Harpending explained. “Rapid population growth has been coupled with vast changes in cultures and ecology, creating new opportunities for adaptation,” the study says. “The past 10,000 years have seen rapid skeletal and dental evolution in human populations, as well as the appearance of many new genetic responses to diet and... MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938386/posts#comment Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:22:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939914/posts A FRUIT picking trip to NSW ended in the death of a Scottish backpacker over a row about creationism and evolution. English backpacker Alexander Christian York, 33, was today sentenced to a maximum of five years jail for the manslaughter of Scotsman Rudi Boa in January last year. Mr Boa, 28, died on January 27 after being stabbed by York at the Blowering Holiday Park, near Tumut. ... The Scottish couple and York, neighbours at the caravan park, were becoming friends and spent the night of January 27 drinking at the Star Hotel in Tumut. However, towards the end of... The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939914/posts#comment Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:15:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934903/posts On February 18, presidential candidate Pat Buchanan appeared on the ABC program, "This Week With David Brinkley." He was asked by newspaper columnist George Will, "On the subject of culture, do you favor the teaching of creationism in public schools?" Buchanan answered, "I believe that God created heaven and earth. I believe in the Bible, George. I believe that children should not be forced to believe the Bible, but I think that every child should know what's in the Old and New Testaments." This prompted liberal commentator Sam Donaldson to ask, in a tone of unconcealed condescension and ridicule, "Did... Rapid City Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934903/posts#comment Wed, 5 Dec 2007 06:42:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1920670/posts The chicken egg has been prepped for surgery – a pea-size hole cut in the shell and covered with sticky tape. And now Hans Larsson, a McGill University researcher, removes it from the incubator, places it under a microscope and prepares to operate. He gently peels off the tape and teases back the membranes that line the shell with tweezers. Through the eyepiece, he can see the tiny dot of a heart, steadily beating. He can also see the bud where he implants a milky bead doused in a protein. He hopes it will coax the embryo to grow a... The Globe and Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1920670/posts#comment Sun, 4 Nov 2007 02:44:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1913314/posts Greetings. Many of you reading now know that Free Republic has played host to a great many debates on the scientific, philosophical and theological significance and viability of origins. The debates bandy back and forth the theories of naturalistic evolution and divine creation. After a few caustic crossfires on YouTube, a fellow named Ryan proposed a semi-formal debate. To be fair, I suggested we hold it on a public forum like Free Republic. FR is no stranger to these debates, and that way any moderating of the discussion remains objective. To distinguish quotes, any time I quote Ryan, it will... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1913314/posts#comment Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:03:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1913037/posts Evidence of early humans living on the coast in South Africa 164,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented, is being reported in the Oct. 18 issue of the journal Nature. The international team of researchers reporting the findings include Curtis Marean, a paleoanthropologist with the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University and three graduate students in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change. “Our findings show that at 164,000 years ago in coastal South Africa humans expanded their diet to include shellfish and other marine resources, perhaps as a response to harsh environmental conditions,” notes Marean,... ASU News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1913037/posts#comment Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:17:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910380/posts Scientists have discovered how a microscopic organism has benefited from nearly 80 million years without sex. Bdelloid rotifers are asexual organisms, meaning that they reproduce without males. Without sex, these animals lack many of the ways in which sexual animals adapt over generations to survive in their natural environment. Although other asexual organisms are known, they are thought to become extinct after relatively short time periods because they are unable to adapt. Therefore, how bdelloid rotifers have survived for tens of millions of years has been a mystery to scientists. Bdelloids typically live in freshwater pools. However, if deprived of... PhysOrg http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910380/posts#comment Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:38:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1906965/posts The teaching of evolution is becoming increasingly difficult in UK schools because of the rise of creationism, a leading scientist is warning. Head of science at London's Institute of Education Professor Michael Reiss says some teachers, fearful of entering the debate, avoid the subject totally. This could leave pupils with gaps in their scientific knowledge, he says. Prof Reiss says the rise of creationism is partly down to the large increase in Muslim pupils in UK schools. He said: "The number of Muslim students has grown considerably in the last 10 to 20 years and a higher proportion of Muslim... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1906965/posts#comment Fri, 5 Oct 2007 13:26:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1907978/posts Atheist Scientists in Uproar over Movie Showing Intolerance of Evidence for Intelligent Design EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed Coming to Theatres in February 2008 LOS ANGELES, October 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) -  Atheist scientists who have become famous for attacking those who disagree with them are now loudly complaining about supposedly being mistreated in a film they haven't seen. Oxford zoologist, Richard Dawkins, has made a lot of money and fame calling people who believe in God "delusional." Yet he is now grumbling that the producers of EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed "tricked" him into doing an interview. EXPELLED exposes the intimidation, persecution... LifeSiteNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1907978/posts#comment Mon, 8 Oct 2007 02:15:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1903536/posts At the start of this sensible book about the "weight and fitness crisis" in America, the Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett tells us some shocking things. By 1995, she says, two-thirds of Americans were overweight, hundreds of thousands were dying fat-related deaths, being overweight was people's most common gripe and obesity was poised to overtake smoking as the biggest cause of preventable death. All of this, she says, accounted for $99 billion in medical costs. ... The problem, in other words, is bad, and it's getting worse, and we can't seem to stop it. So why does fattening food – sugar,... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1903536/posts#comment Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:06:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1895478/posts Source: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology Date: September 11, 2007 New Method Can Reveal Ancestry Of All Genes Across Many Different Genomes Science Daily — The wheels of evolution turn on genetic innovation -- new genes with new functions appear, allowing organisms to grow and adapt in new ways. But deciphering the history of how and when various genes appeared, for any organism, has been a difficult and largely intractable task. A scanning electron micrograph of one of the seventeen fungal species analyzed in the study. (Credit: Image courtesy / Janice Carr, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Now a team... Science Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1895478/posts#comment Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:25:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1895794/posts A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit against the Roseville Joint Union High School District that was filed by a Granite Bay man unhappy with how evolution was being taught in his children's school. The father, Larry Caldwell, spent much of 2003 and 2004 trying to persuade the Roseville high school district to alter its biology curriculum to include arguments against evolution. After many meetings and discussions about his proposals, the school board rejected them. Caldwell then sued the district, four administrators and two school board members, alleging they had violated his constitutional rights in the process of considering... The Sacramento Bee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1895794/posts#comment Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:02:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889878/posts Link Only: It turns out we may not be 'big-brained apes' after all - Researcher says Darwin's theory overstated the similarities between human, animal brains The Indianapolis Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889878/posts#comment Sat, 1 Sep 2007 16:02:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1887900/posts Loving Our ChildrenFor the past few years, I’ve been telling BreakPoint readers about our culture’s undeclared war on people with Down syndrome. Earlier this year, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommended that all pregnant women, regardless of age, undergo amniocentesis. Obviously that’s to put them under increasing pressure to abort the child if a genetic defect is detected. I thought that I heard every possible argument for and against this barbarism, but I was wrong. Apparently, in addition to asking themselves “what would Jesus do?” women should ask themselves “what would Darwin advise?” But Dr. Frank Boehm of... Prison Fellowship http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1887900/posts#comment Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:00:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1885458/posts The soil on Mars may contain microbial life! Joop Houtkooper of the University of Giessen, Germany, will declare on Friday the Viking spacecraft may have found signs of a weird life form based on hydrogen peroxide on the subfreezing, arid Martian surface. His analysis of one of the experiments carried out by the Viking spacecraft suggests that 0.1 percent of the Martian soil could be of biological origin. That is roughly comparable to biomass levels found in some Antarctic permafrost, home to a range of hardy bacteria and lichen. Developing.... DrudgeReport http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1885458/posts#comment Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:20:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885404/posts The discovery of a new species of great ape that roamed Africa 10m years ago has forced scientists to rethink the earliest steps of human evolution. Fossil hunters working along the Afar rift in central Ethiopia unearthed remnants of teeth they claim belonged to the primitive ape, a previously unknown species of gorilla they named Chororapithecus abyssinicus. The finding, if confirmed, will redraw the evolutionary tree of primates, suggesting that humans and chimpanzees must have split from their gorilla-like ancestors 3m years earlier than thought. Geneticists have previously put the date at which the human and chimpanzee lineage split from... The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885404/posts#comment Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:38:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884511/posts Did life begin on comets? 18:17 17 August 2007 NewScientist.com news service Hazel Muir Clay particles seen in Comet Tempel 1 suggest comets once had warm, liquid interiors that could have spawned life, a controversial new study argues (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD)Tools If you buy a lottery ticket this week, what are the odds that you'll win the grand prize then get struck by lightning as you pop open the champagne? Vanishingly small, but still much higher than the odds that life on Earth first evolved on our planet, according to an ardent proponent of the notion that life came from space.... New Scientist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884511/posts#comment Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:56:55 GMT