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Important update 7/21-15: Please see comments below on the really low quality of the data. I was originally serious about this analysis taki...

Ken Ham (founder and president of Answers in Genesis, the Creation Museum, wannabe arc builder) is a Young Earth creationist, and he prides...

Just this figure. Fig 2.  Percentage of American adolescents endorsing “none” for religious affiliation, 1966–2014. From Twenge et al...

The Monty Hall problem is very famous ( Wikipedia , NYT ). It is so famous because it so easily fools almost everyone the first time they he...

Answer is Genesis (i.e., Ken Ham and the Creation Museum) has published a really nice description of the bedbug paper that came out earlier ...

A very short edition of Carnival of Evolution is up today. A new blogger is hiding behind a pseudonym, David Hume, with two excellent posts...

The September issue of Scientific American is about human evolution. It includes articles by Frans de Waal, Gary Stix, John Hawks, and other...

Carnival of Evolution #77 - the Phoenix edition is up at Carnival of Evolution . Where it is going to stay. It is also going to be up e...

Ken Ham delivers an awesome summary of the decline of religion's influence in his Answers Magazine . It reads really well, mostly, if...

There's a creationist conference coming to Michigan State University this Saturday, so I and others have been thinking and talking abou...

ORiGiN SuMMiT Michigan State University November 1st, 2014 Business College Complex, Room N130 FREE ADMISSION website   Meet ...

Last Friday Christos Papadimitriou gave a seminar at UC Santa Barbara in the Computer Science department. The title of his talk was Com...

As niches are filled up by new species speciation slows down. Comes to a halt, even. This makes sense, as the niches are ways of life tha...