Behavioral Ecology Blog

Ben Stein’s myspace page has been
Pharyngulated!
(check out the poll)

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Please visit, link to, and most importantly read Expelled Exposed, the site the aims to explore the lies in Ben Stein’s “movie” Expelled

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For FREE, at the NAS website. Here is the HTML table of contents.  While the more militant science bloggers will surely take offense by their “soft” statement on religion (”…the evidence for evolution can be fully compatible with religious faith. Science and religion are different ways of understanding the world”), this is not a [...]

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Combed hair and a suit.. WHAT!!!

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ID’er, young earth creationist, or credible scientists???
Anyway, Jim has been busy spamming the Mammal-L and Ecolog-L listservs for the past few weeks… Here is one of his posts.

Have you seen this? A peer reviewed journal for young earth creationism! Please tell me that someone out there is preparing some stiff opposition to this. [...]

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I’m not much of a music-while-I-drive kind of guy.. I’d much rather listed to talk radio. As you might imagine, finding something interesting to listen to is quite a challenge. In Southern California, there are 2 basic classes of talk radio. 1. In Spanish, and 2. About religion. Note that these [...]

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It’s not often that I laugh this hard over some dork trying to play scientist- but this one is a real gem… My snide remarks are in blue
“Why The Fossils Don’t Support Evolution” or “Count the ways that Babu is not qualified to write this article…”
Millions of people are taught that the fossil record furnishes [...]

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In a recent Newsweek poll:

Nearly half (48 percent) of the public rejects the scientific theory of evolution;
one-third (34 percent) of college graduates say they accept the Biblical account of creation as fact.
Seventy-three percent of Evangelical Protestants say they believe that God created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years; 39 percent of [...]

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I believe PZ has the corner on the Egnor-bashing… Thanks PZ.
He mangles science, now he defames history. Michael Egnor is like the Swiss army knife of creationist hackery.
Former Vice President Al Gore famously claimed to have invented the Internet because years ago he was in the Senate and sponsored a bill. The assertion that Charles [...]

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A few months ago, I was motivated to muse about all the reasons I hate starbucks.. I posted them here. In summary, Starbucks coffee:

Is expensive
The people are pretentious
The coffee tastes like shit- remember- even McDonalds is better!
Their business practices are not eco-friendly.
No (or very limited) Fair Traded coffee
Bad music…

Now, even worse.. Starbucks coffee is supporting [...]

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