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Platypus Genome ‘Missing Link’ to Understanding Human Evolution

When the platypus was first discovered, scientists thought it was a hoax. It was just too hard to believe that a duck-billed, egg-laying, otter-footed, beaver-tailed, venomous mammal could really exist. But, it does – and it turns out, the genetic makeup of this strange animal may just clue us in to how humans and other [...]

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A Virtual Toast, in Honor of Darwin’s 200th Birthday

200 years ago today, a man was born who would change scientific thought forever. Charles Darwin was among the first – and certainly the most prominent – to challenge the Biblical view of creation, giving rise to a controversy that still rages on to this day (particularly in America). 2009 is also the 150th anniversary [...]

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After Sewage Spill Cleanup, Fish in Lake Washington Evolving in Reverse

While locals were dealing with the fallout from a sewage spill in Lake Washington in the 1960s, the little threespine stickleback fish was evolving. It seems that the cloudy murkiness from the sewage allowed the fish to move beyond its need for armor that protected it from hungry trout. Unfortunately, now that the [...]

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Creationist Science Tours: Helping Build Tomorrow’s Crack Ass Backwards Fundamentalist Christians

Fundamental Religious thinking, no matter what religion found in, is the enemy of mankind and the environment. After all, if the world is going to end sometime soon in a rapture of godly light, why on Earth would I take the time to recycle? Global Warming can’t be real, and if it is there’s certainly [...]

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