Texas Narrowly Upholds Reason
Friday, March 27th, 2009 Posted in Creationism, Education, Politics | No Comments »I suppose I should be happy that the Texas lawmakers have upheld the bill which removed a loophole through which creationists slipped their nonsense into textbooks across the state. The new wording is that students should be taught to "analyze and evaluate ...
Brains may be 300 million years old…
Thursday, March 5th, 2009 Posted in Creationism | No Comments »...and some poeple still haven't worked out how to use them! http://www.livescience.com/animals/090302-oldest-brain-fossil.html Yes, would you belive that a fossilised brain dating back 300 million years has been discovered in a dig in Kansas. Which is, as many of you will know, a ...
A Formula for Happiness
Monday, March 2nd, 2009 Posted in Creationism, Psychology | No Comments »I came across this video of a talk by Dan Gilbert at the TED Conference. His talk, called "Exploring the Frontiers of Happiness", examines the way in which human beings estimate their own happiness and, more importantly, what would cause ...
Responding to Creationist Requests
Thursday, February 19th, 2009 Posted in Creationism | 3 Comments »PZ Myers has posted a wonderful example of exactly how to reply to a creationist when they ask you for a public forum to discuss their Intelligent Design nonsense. Part of me is still slightly annoyed that we're having to give these sad delusionals ...
Happy Darwin Day!
Thursday, February 12th, 2009 Posted in Biology, Creationism | No Comments »Today, as I'm sure you know, marks a very important anniversary - the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin - a man responsible for one of the greatest paradigm shifts in the entire history of science. How can I possibly do justice ...
Britain in the grip of stupidity epidemic
Friday, February 6th, 2009 Posted in Biology, Creationism, Education, Health | No Comments »The mind boggles. The "Rescuing Darwin Survey" was, IMHO, extraordinarily poor in its design; but that's only a tiny excuse for what is a colossal failure of education, the press, and, frankly, the national intelligence. 33% of adults in the survey believed that ...
Texas Science standards
Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted in Creationism | No Comments »Texas has finally updated its high school science standards. The fierce debate has bizarrely centred around the use of incredibly fine points of language in the infamous clause 3A, which, in its previous incarnation, allowed Creationists to wriggle their fallacious ...
Obama’s first few days
Sunday, January 25th, 2009 Posted in Creationism, Politics | No Comments »I'm really beginning to think that we might well see the beginning of the end of the fanatical religious right in America within the Obama presidency. The indications are good so far. He's shutting down Guantanamo Bay, withdrawing troops from ...
Looking Ahead to 2009 – Part 1
Sunday, December 28th, 2008 Posted in Creationism, Education | No Comments »I'm going to do a post every day for the next four days looking forward to the positive and negative aspects that we can expect to see in 2009, looking from four different viewpoints. Firstly, today, I'm looking at the good ...
Yay! Evolving art!
Saturday, December 13th, 2008 Posted in Creationism, Natural Computation | No Comments »http://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolution-of-mona-lisa/ This was all over the internet a few days ago: A programmer who wrote a small application to evolve works of art using transparent polygons. Of course, just to see if I could, I had to duplicate it myself, though ...
