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May 24, 2004
Homo Omnivorous
...our nearest relatives among the apes, such as the chimpanzees, have problems digesting meat without resorting to a lot of physical activity.
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March 30, 2004
Sociobiology and Metaphor
Sociobiology isn't Science: it's Poetry.
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March 24, 2004
Truth and Beauty
I answer that they exist out there and they are products of our minds which take in fragments of the world and organize a picture.
Posted by Joel at 02:34 PM | Read More
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December 28, 2003
Self Quoting
From Undernet #political_forum: [EmperorNo] "Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me," says Annie Dillard. I disagree. I...
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November 01, 2003
Intelligent Design Network, Inc. Bears False Witness
I argue that, on the contrary, by promoting this ends justify the means attempt to seize hold of the American mind, Intelligent Design Network, Inc. is setting a hideous moral example for the youth they purport to "protect".
Posted by Joel at 08:21 PM | Read More
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October 06, 2003
Intelligent Design?
The Science content standards in New Mexico were recently challenged by a group calling themselves Intelligent Design. These folks object...
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September 19, 2003
Trolled
They did a good job, I have to admit.
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September 14, 2003
Sin
Note: This is part of a series based on exercises from A Writer's Book of Days. It's something of a...
Posted by Joel at 11:30 PM | Read More
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August 03, 2003
Birdbrained Evolution
Evolution leads to stupidity, purblindness, that endures just as long as it allows the individual organisms to breed.
Posted by Joel at 02:46 PM | Read More
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July 02, 2003
It Preys On Us(?)
A successful predator of human beings would either trick the senses or be of a substance that our five could not detect.
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June 27, 2003
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June 18, 2003
How the Right Lies
In all these cases, regardless of the smoking gun, they deny the Truth because in their minds, the Truth is something that can be shifted around to fit their political aims and prejudices
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May 29, 2003
Before I was Born
Before I was born,
Before I was a curl in my mother's womb,
Before I was a shrimp swimming in her uterine sea,
there was nothing.
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April 20, 2003
Road Rage 2
The instructor gave me a blank, "thank you for sharing" look. As I sat back, I muttered to my seat mates "Well, there I've gone and upset all the Fundamentalists."
Posted by Joel at 11:52 PM | Read More
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March 05, 2003
And Now for the Phasmatidae
As is usual in Science, the discovery upsets some currently held theories. Yes, they've changed their mind -- slightly -- again.
Posted by Joel at 11:09 PM | Read More
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February 03, 2003
Thoughts on Creationism
To tell the truth, I hope Ashcroft goes after the professor who Raye names. Just look what happened to the Kansas Board of Education!
Posted by Joel at 05:32 PM | Read More
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October 09, 2002
Why Women Ache
There was no Original Sin or crime scene where sufficient forensic evidence was found to convict not only the First Woman, but all her descendants.
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