PZ Myers has a little contest on Pharyngula . Answer one of these two questions and you might win a book drawn at random from PZ's pile:...

Industrial slaughterhouses treat livestock very badly. That's not news. But, a reminder now and then is welcomed, lest we forget because...

Olivia Judson in the New York Times on the ability to evolve in response to environmental change . Species can't always cope with changi...

Another email from the AFA on Gap's war on Christmas. Gap has given in a is airing a commercial with the words 'Merry Christmas...

The AFA sent me a link to this trailer of a movie they are pushing. 200 YEARS AFTER THE BIRTH OF CHARLES DARWIN AND 150 YEARS AFTER "O...

Interjections! This crazy article 'pothesizing that depression is adaptive in humans has resurfaced in an Irish newspaper (scroll down ...

Words aren't enough to express the disdain I have for people who lie like Walter McManus. When he worked for GM, he said the data showed...

Recently, emails were stolen from a server at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the UK. These include private c...

Wulffmorgenthaler . If? Sometimes it totally does work like that. Blue-footed and red-footed boobies (again, always a fun google ). Sexual s...

Here's a story on Evolutionary Novelties about the distribution of Ray Comfort's mauling of On The Origin of Species (see story on...

Bill O'Reilly is such a fucking dork. Read this : In Portland, Oregon, a father and son were about to get off mass transit when disaster...

The Clergy Letter Project is a list of American Christian clergy that accept evolution. Their statement on the Bible: Within the community ...

The money I make from the advertisements that I have allowed Google AdSense to place here on the left and below puzzle me. Very few people ...

Creationism is getting a lot of press these days, mainly due to the publication of Going Rogue , Sarah Palin's book (which I doubt she w...

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Just a quick redirect: The Virtues of Godlessness : The least religious nations are also the most healthy and successful By Phil Zuckerman, ...

When a human protects an imperiled individual of another species, we call it compassion. If a humpback whale does so, we call it instinct. B...

In this brief article in eSkeptic , Clark Lindgren, Professor of biology at Grinnell College tells the story of how the faculty turned the c...

Here's a poll to crash: "Since Gap has now included the word "Christmas" in a television ad (in a dismissive manner), sho...

La Sierra University is a liberal arts Seventh-Day Adventist undergraduate institution. If you want to go to college, go somewhere else, b...