I have just been watching an old horizon episode entitled the ‘blind watchmaker‘ featuring Richard Dawkins on youtube. In this feature he is discussing evolution and makes some very interesting observations on how evolution can create very complicated organs and organisms via natural selection. The prime example given is that of an eye. The creationists [...]
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Evolution and design
Posted in Popular Science on May 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Cosmological logic
Posted in Popular Science on April 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I wasn’t going to use any of my old blogs from elsewhere as they are still around should you wish to view them. However I have had a rather busy weekend and don’t have time to ‘create’. So here’s a cheeky reprint from over a year ago some may find familiar! I picked this as [...]
Creationism for Dummies.
Posted in Popular Science, Religion on April 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes I get annoyed. Not very often these days but sometimes. If I may grossly generalise there are three things that annoy me, these are:
a) Things that don’t work for no apparent reason whatsoever! Which then take hours to put right when I could be doing something useful. Like eating bread.
b) Things that don’t work [...]
The nature of proof
Posted in Philosophy, Popular Science, Religion on April 22, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I was just being infuriated by ‘Dr.’ Kent Hovind. Again. This time through the medium of the Ali G. show. In this clip Hovind explains that he is offering $25,000 to anybody with ‘real, empirical, testable scientific evidence for evolution’. So why has no-one claimed it? Is it because evolution is not ‘true’. Or is [...]
