Sweet Crystaline

Reposted from: http://www.livescience.com/space/080925-am-diamond-life.html
Shooting up the charts and past Adam’s rib as the potential building block for life on Earth are diamonds…
Diamonds May Be Life’s Birthstone
By Michael Schirber, Astrobiology Magazine
One of the hurdles in origin-of-life theories is that the pieces that make up complex biomolecules do not readily come together by themselves. A group of scientists proposes that diamonds [...]

Comfort, Cameron, and Bananas

As you all probably know, I love to pick on Ray Comfort’s brand of religious faith — the kind of faith that is condescendingly righteous and all-consuming, the kind of faith that is so certain it can even tell when people don’t really believe the things they say they believe, such as when he says:
There is [...]

A Wonderfully Accurate Analogy to Intelligent Design

I don’t know this person, but he/she is a good analogizer, and it goes great with my picture from yesterday… (posted from http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/6823581.html),

Watching Evolution

Some creationist somewhere is right now making the claim that, “In all the time scientists have been ‘watching’ for evolutionary change, they’ve never ‘caught’ a species transitioning into another one.” Well, the easy response to that remark is that all species, everywhere are in the midst of transitioning — the complicating factor is how damn [...]

If It Feels Good, Do It

I am often perplexed by other’s perplexity. In this particular case, it’s the oft-repeated, “I can’t see how science can explain where goodness comes from,” or “Evolution just can’t account for morality.”
Really?
Well, first, several good books explain the connection between evolutionary theory and morality (the last one I read was The Moral Sense, by James [...]

Nazis, Evolution, and the Theo-Illogical Mind

I was reading a recent blog post by Dinesh D’Souza in which he manages two such flagrantly appalling misapplications of logic, that I feel compelled to review them…
The first is an example of the backwards Appeal to Nature fallacy that I pointed out the other day. I think I will start referring to this as the “Unappeal of Nature” fallacy. The typical [...]

Unnatural Gays and Natural Evolution?

An example of the Appeal to Nature fallacy is something like this: Animals are not gay, so being gay must be unnatural; therefore, it is bad. 
It think it is pretty easy to see that simply because something is “natural,” it is not necessarily “good”. Viruses, cyanide, and cannabis are all natural, yet we brutally slaughter our colds, we seldom [...]

Sunday Funny #3

Imagine, a creationist looks at this cartoon and thinks, “Yeah, evolution is soooo stupid!