Posts Tagged ‘science’
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 the shroud [...]
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 2011, [...]
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 which [...]
The sound is a bit messed up, but still a great video.
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.
Sequencing genomes [...]
ho⋅me⋅op⋅a⋅thy:
–noun; the method of treating disease by pseudo-scientific bullshit methods, that often causes a marginally sick person with curable illnesses or diseases to degrade and become critically or terminally ill; similar to religion (opposed to LOGIC, SCIENCE, MEDICINE, SANITY, NON-RETARDED-BULLSHIT ).
Jail for parents who allowed daughter to die
A couple who failed to seek [...]
May I introduce you to Don McLeroy the Chairman of the Texas State Board of Education.
