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Climate in a new Harris poll
A new Harris poll finds that nearly half of Americans believe that global climate change is occurring and that human activity is responsible for it. Asked "Which of these best describes your feelings toward global climate change?" 45% of respondents selected "I believe it exists and humans are the…
What If? World War I and the Creationism-Evolution Controversy, Part 1
How would the creationism-evolution controversy have been different if World War I had never happened? Today the question is answered by Ronald L. Numbers, the Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Numbers is the author of…
What If? World War I and the Creationism-Evolution Controversy
Because 2014 is the centennial of the outbreak of World War I, there’s been a lot of discussion of the causes, conduct, and consequences of the war lately. Particularly interesting for anyone with a speculative bent is a series on NPR: “What if World War I had never happened?” Various…
Answer Monday!
Last week on Fossil Friday, my expectations were high. I gave you a single tooth and expected you to determine the entire animal once attached to it! And you were all champs. Every commenter (except for Mr. Sloth man), got it right, correctly identifying the tooth as…
Reading Noah
Noah's Ark/20,000 Leagues Under the Sea mashup, created by Ryan Long for a shirt sold by Woot.com. Used with permission. Let me tell you a story. The first story my father told me, and the first story I told each of you. Russell Crowe’s Noah, in Darren Aronofsky’s Noah Noah…
Cosmos Wars, Episode V: The Creationists Strike Out
The Milky Way in many wavelengths. Image via NASA, showing how the Milky Way appears in different parts of the spectrum, a theme explored in the "Hidden in the Light" episode of Cosmos. The Idols of the Cave are the idols of the individual man. For everyone (besides the errors…
A preview of Paleoclimate
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Michael L. Bender's Paleoclimate (Princeton University Press, 2013). The preview consists of chapter 12, "Anthropogenic Global Warming in the Context of Paleoscience," in which Bender writes, "The problem of anthropogenic global change,…
Fungi and the Flood
Ah, California living. Land of fruits and nuts. And fungi. Impressed one day by the unusually high number of kinds of mushrooms at my local produce store (I stopped counting at 25), I posted a picture of the array on my Facebook page. Whereupon Jim Strickland waggishly warned me about using the…
Cosmos Wars, Episode IV: No New Hope for Creationists
Tauriel: Wood elves love best the light of the stars. Fili: I always thought it is a cold light, remote and far away. Tauriel: It is memory, precious and pure. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug The most distant galaxies ever…

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