Posts Tagged ‘science’

God did not create the universe, says Hawking God did not create the universe and the “Big Bang” was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book. In “The Grand Design,” co-authored with U.S. physicist Leonard Mlodinow, Hawking says a new series of [...]

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 at 11:01 | 0 comments
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They went full retard.

Monday, June 14th, 2010 at 09:21 | 26 comments
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Scientists reproduce ‘fake’ Shroud of Turin to prove cloth is man-made The Shroud of Turin – revered as the cloth that covered Jesus in the tomb – is a man-made relic, according to scientists who reproduced a copy of the famous fabric. Italian chemist Luigi Garlaschelli said his experiment proves that earlier carbon dating of [...]

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 at 09:26 | 1 comment
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First good news I’ve heard out of England in a while.. Evolution to be compulsory subject in primary schools Evolution will become a compulsory subject for study in all state primary schools, the Government announced today. Darwin’s theory of how life evolved through natural selection will be a legal requirement in science teaching from September [...]

Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 15:38 | 0 comments
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The Information Challenge By Richard Dawkins In September 1997, I allowed an Australian film crew into my house in Oxford without realising that their purpose was creationist propaganda. In the course of a suspiciously amateurish interview, they issued a truculent challenge to me to “give an example of a genetic mutation or an evolutionary process [...]

Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 18:09 | 0 comments
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The sound is a bit messed up, but still a great video.

Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 00:22 | 1 comment

Evolution details revealed through 21-year E. coli experiment In 1988 an associate professor started growing cultures of Escherichia coli. Twenty-one years and 40,000 generations of bacteria later, Richard Lenski, who is now a professor of microbial ecology at Michigan State University, reveals new details about the differences between adaptive and random genetic changes during evolution. [...]

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 at 14:35 | 2 comments