Check them out for yourself: Who answered the question "is there a God?" in this way? "Hmm... for some people, I hope so for ...

Math nerds (yes, there are different kinds) are making the big money. Stat nerds, actually. Right out of college. But the real treat in this...

Cue the fitness landscape . A multi-dimensional function for organism fitness (ability to reproduce) as a function of the genotype*. A popu...

Science under attack: Congress should stop playing politics with the peer-review process. This editorial in Nature complains that politicia...

The AFA sent me this email. The American Automobile Association (AAA) has begun offering "Family Memberships" to homosexual coupl...

Carnival of Evolution 13 went up two days ago. Loads of good stuff in there, as usual. I highly recommend, for example, Michael White's...

Welcome to the ninth edition of Scientia Pro Publica . Scientia Pro Publica is a blog carnival devoted to celebrating the best science,...

In Pakistan, a muslim mob burned six Christians because there were rumors that they had desecrated a Quran. Four women, one man, and one ch...

So if you purchase organically grown food (crops and meat) because you think they are more nutritious, then you might be disappointed to lea...

Whenever I am back in Denmark I eat copious amounts of tebirkes. Tebirkes is a Danish pastry quite unlike anything else ( recipe ). Closest ...

In an interview published August 1st, 2009 [sic!], Eugenie Scott explains why we must not say "believe in evolution:" So you urg...

Jerry Coyne has found a winner in his contest to come up with a new word for those atheists who think we should all make out with the theis...

Sean Carroll (the Caltech physicist) has a blog at Discover magazine. Yesterday, in a readworthy post by the title What Questions Can Scien...

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is suing to not have "In God We Trust" engraved on a new governmental building, the Capitol ...

How do you get from the Australopithecus on the left to Homo sapiens on the right in a hundred thousand generations? Like this, perhaps? ...

I forgot to mention last week that a Joel Grus has written the greatest grant application that I have ever seen on his blog, Y OUR R ELIGI...

Human Events™ - Headquarters of the Conservative Underground - sent me this email from Judge Roy Moore of Alabama. He's running for go...

Of course our minds are shaped in part by our evolutionary history. Our instincts are in our brains, so to speak; at least some of those ins...

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Only 97% of scientists believe humans and other living things have evolved over time, according to a new Pew Poll. Full report is here . The...