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Why Evolution Is True

2009

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December 2009

  1. My big day!
  2. Late survival of mammoths and horses in North America
  3. Christmas science corrective: stop designer snowflakes!
  4. Rabbit is the question
  5. Whatever-day-it-is felid
  6. Big creationist mess in L.A.
  7. Orr on Wright
  8. Getting the ducks in a row: one-eyed sleep
  9. Bad Idea of 2009: “other ways of knowing”
  10. Review of The Faith Instinct
  11. Andrew Sullivan makes some sense
  12. Caturday Christmas
  13. The Darwin Show
  14. Fluffy sucks! Coulter and O’Reilly on atheism
  15. Duck penises and sexual selection
  16. Self-promotion: WEIT paperback available for pre-order
  17. Other-promotion: Inner Fish slides online
  18. Animal camouflage
  19. A Christmas Memory
  20. Greta Christina on atheism
  21. Venomous dinosaurs
  22. Bloggingheads: Wright vs. Hitchens, part II
  23. More evidence for evolution: dead genes in sea snakes
  24. Dick Lewontin interview
  25. Italian science organization funds creationist book
  26. Darwin conference photos
  27. Caturday felid: hitchhiking kitten survives 120-mile trip in undercarriage. Plus bonus door-opening kitteh!
  28. The execrable Joe Lieberman
  29. Reason Project video contest
  30. Dear God, please stop the healthcare reform bill
  31. Evolution Rap
  32. Roger Ebert: New Agers and creationists should not be President
  33. First tool-using invertebrate: octopus with a mobile home
  34. I’m a Penguin!
  35. Oral Roberts is dead
  36. Theodicy III: Primo Levi versus Francis Collins
  37. Bloggingheads: Hitchens and Wright
  38. Caturday felids: athletic kittehs
  39. Jesus and Mo on tolerance
  40. Eric MacDonald on bad design and theodicy
  41. Bad design: a theological or a scientific argument?
  42. How genetics works
  43. WEIT plaudits from the Sunday Times
  44. Holy cow
  45. Here we go again
  46. Ben Goldacre disses “facilitated communication”
  47. Caturday felid: cat eats with fork and chopsticks
  48. End-of-year book plaudits
  49. Guardian: 50 books that defined the noughties
  50. Incipient speciation in blackcaps?
  51. Marc Hauser on the origin of morality
  52. More sophisticated theology: Troy Jollimore on Karen Armstrong
  53. An answer to all theology
  54. John Haught’s “sophisticated” theology: evolution is God’s drama
  55. Responses to Kristof’s call for a detente
  56. Matthew Cobb reviews two evolution books
  57. National Geographic photo contest
  58. More on Nagel, Meyer, and the origin of life
  59. More translations of WEIT
  60. Distinguished philosopher blurbs intelligent-design book
  61. WEIT: foreign editions
  62. Jerry on ‘Why Evolution is True’ at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside
  63. Andrew Sullivan steps up

November 2009

  1. It’s a spandrel (sort of . . .)!
  2. Ciudad de las Ideas debate on religion
  3. Live debate just starting: Atheism is the new fundamentalism, featuring Dawkins and Grayling.
  4. The dangers of Islam: Wright vs. Hitchens
  5. Caturday felid: the rare Borneo bay cat
  6. Randi, facilitated communication, and the comatose Belgian
  7. Evolution-related art
  8. Back tomorrow
  9. Michael Shermer, theologian
  10. Caturday felid: rib-eating evolution puss!
  11. Amsterdam: van Gogh
  12. Caturday mustelid
  13. Coyne vs Palin. A knockout in round 1.
  14. Palin an evolution denier
  15. Faith-based groups to advise British government
  16. What killed the dinosaurs?
  17. Creationist spots non-existent evolutionary disagreement
  18. Caturday felid: a mutant!
  19. How old are mammalian pheromones?
  20. From Puebla
  21. Axis of evil: Discovery Institute + Harun Yahya
  22. Portraits
  23. Times of London: Darwin responsible for all ills
  24. Caturday felid: the philosophical cat
  25. Just a bit more on accommodationism
  26. “Faith in science is a belief”
  27. Hola from Puebla
  28. More on dowsing
  29. The New Statesman on accommodationism
  30. And now for something completely salacious
  31. Crybaby theists
  32. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Xenu
  33. Pseudoscience in the news
  34. Sex, lies, and martyrs
  35. Creationism in Muslim countries
  36. Peripateticism
  37. Theological hypocrisy
  38. Ruse gibbers on. . . .
  39. More photos: Darwin/Chicago 2009

October 2009

  1. Caturday felids: We are Siameses if the environment pleases
  2. Saturday metazoans: Darwin/Chicago 2009
  3. The debate that won’t die
  4. Blog review of WEIT and its colleagues.
  5. Exhibit B
  6. Controversal paper on origins of caterpillars debunked
  7. “There is no missing links”: interview in el Periódico
  8. More on Darwin/Chicago 2009
  9. Nightline piece on Scientology
  10. RIP Mr Nesbit
  11. Britons want equal time for creationism
  12. Darwin/Chicago 2009
  13. Hitchens on debating the faithful
  14. How polite must we be when discussing religion?
  15. Hollywood director deep-sixes Scientology
  16. 50 Voices of Disbelief out today
  17. Rick Warren vs. Bill Maher
  18. Dawkins on Catholic poaching
  19. The Bible according to Crumb
  20. A big whine from Newsweek
  21. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Karen Armstrong
  22. Caturday felids: Guatemala trifecta
  23. Are humans still evolving?
  24. Billboard of the day
  25. Is atheism scientific?
  26. Grammar, please!
  27. Atheist billboard in Chicago!
  28. Back to the barricades
  29. Ida smackdown
  30. BBC wildlife photo winners, felid included
  31. Salon interview with Dawkins
  32. Interview with “Harun Yahya”
  33. The weaving of Guatemala
  34. Bonding with a second cousin
  35. Because I can
  36. Best of the noughties
  37. Roadrunner
  38. Universidad Francisco Marroquin
  39. Caturday felid
  40. Home again
  41. Dogs can be moral, too.
  42. Your ear bones came from your jaws
  43. Got to love those dolphins – unless you are a jellyfish
  44. Why sponges are animals
  45. And now for something completely different…
  46. I fear for my country.
  47. New human evolution exhibit to open at the USNM
  48. The vegetarian spider
  49. Jerry at AAI
  50. This is an amateur blog.
  51. Caturday felid
  52. How did we come out of Africa?
  53. In Guatemala
  54. “Home” – What have we done to the Earth?
  55. Holy infrared cameras, Batman!
  56. The discovery of heredity
  57. From the atheist meetings
  58. Richard Dawkins is not an accommodationist
  59. Caturday Felid: Ollie the nose-scratcher
  60. Variation in dog coats
  61. Welcome to Ardi, a new member of our family!

September 2009

  1. Sharks with head claspers (sort of)
  2. Asymmetrical trilobites
  3. That’s not ratfish genitalia. That’s ratfish genitalia.
  4. Free Harvard course on justice
  5. Academic theology: a big game of whack-a-mole
  6. This eye saw 400 million years ago
  7. Caturday felids: fishing cats
  8. A radio show and three book reviews
  9. Southwestward Ho
  10. Kirk Cameron and Kevin Padian on the creationist Origin
  11. Feathered dinos older than Archaeopteryx fulfill an evolutionary prediction!
  12. Hall of Shame
  13. Coyne vs. Wright, Reader’s Digest version
  14. A creationist edition of The Origin
  15. Rosenhouse, Benson and Blackford on Sullivan on evil
  16. Andrew Sullivan takes another crack at the problem of evil
  17. Yay! WEIT in Texas school board hearings! Well, maybe not yay. . .
  18. Andrew Sullivan’s mushy theodicy
  19. Because I can’t help myself
  20. James Wood: great literary critic, not-so-great evolutionary biologist
  21. Kanye strikes again!
  22. From God’s mouth to Eagleton’s ear
  23. Caturday felid: kittehs and epistemology
  24. The fruits of enlightenment
  25. Tiny T. rex and a rare felid
  26. Response to Robert Wright
  27. Note on Wright post below
  28. Jason Rosenhouse on ways of knowing
  29. On the radio
  30. A maggot in the skull
  31. Harvard expedition places WEIT atop Mount Darwin
  32. Another flea
  33. Jimmy Carter: Wilson’s outburst motivated by racism
  34. World’s dumbest kitteh
  35. Russell Blackford on the problem of evil
  36. If it walks like an atheist and talks like an atheist. . .
  37. Jesus ‘n’ Mo: take 2 on Armstrong
  38. Joe Wilson and race
  39. Response to Robert Wright
  40. It’s National Bilby Day!
  41. Caturday felids: trifecta!
  42. Dawkins 17, Armstrong 0
  43. Dead genes for tooth enamel
  44. The feline theory of intelligent design
  45. Got blood? Great tits hunt bats
  46. How many “ways of knowing” are there?
  47. Monday metazoan: world’s largest rat discovered
  48. Robert May attacks fundamentalism
  49. Jerry to speak at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside
  50. Dawkins’s book out; reviews appear
  51. “Reasonists” hanging in there
  52. Desperation at The Daily Dish
  53. Phil Plait no longer a Blogginghead
  54. Caturday felids: snow leopard twins
  55. What I saw in Alabama
  56. Worst paper of the year?
  57. What frogs go through for their tadpoles
  58. Arab organization prosecuted for anti-Semitic cartoon
  59. In ‘bama
  60. McWhorter’s Mephitological Argument
  61. James Wood replies
  62. I’m off to Alabama
  63. Jesus and Mo go apophatic
  64. Sedalia paper: tee-shirt poll Pharyngulated!
  65. Sean Carroll and Carl Zimmer quit Bloggingheads for promoting creationism

August 2009

  1. Jason Rosenhouse is steamed
  2. Epic win in Sedalia
  3. Portrait of a molecule
  4. Is depression an evolutionary adaptation? Part 2.
  5. OMG! Evolution tee shirts banned for violating religious neutrality
  6. A day at the museum
  7. Caturday felids: Sadie and Zöe, militant (c)atheists
  8. Is depression an evolutionary adaptation? Part 1.
  9. Rosenhouse on Ward on God
  10. What good is a slacker God?
  11. The New Yorker takes a swipe at everyone
  12. Ted Kennedy died well
  13. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Moses ‘n’ Templeton
  14. Orchids mimic alarm pheromones of bees to attract wasps
  15. Pigliucci on Sagan
  16. Happy birthday, otter!
  17. A bizarre living fossil
  18. Robert Wright: Pirouetting on the fence
  19. The New York Times has gone all faitheist
  20. Summer reading and summer vacation: anoles
  21. Caturday felid, now with dino!
  22. The Asian giant hornet
  23. They can’t start too early!
  24. Surprise! Homeopathy can’t cure AIDS, TB, or malaria.
  25. Rational exuberance
  26. Poison dart frogs: poison, yes; dart, not so much
  27. Atelopus coynei, an eponymous frog
  28. Ghostwriting scientific papers, ctd.
  29. Rat-eating plant!
  30. Francis Collins and genetic medicine
  31. Hitchens on the Danish cartoons
  32. The bitterness goes way back
  33. Not all biological pseudoscience comes from creationists
  34. Grayling: “By their works ye shall know them.”
  35. Sunday miscellany
  36. Caturday felid
  37. Caturday felid, part deux: Tuxedo cat earns high school diploma
  38. Yale University Press refuses to show Muhammad cartoons in a book about them
  39. It takes a generation
  40. Michael Ruse’s WhingeFest: atheists very, very bad for evolution
  41. “If this doesn’t give religion a bad name, nothing will.”
  42. How the tapir got his spots III
  43. Mooney and Kirshenbaum self-destruct at last
  44. The origins of morality
  45. Insightful rooks
  46. Caturday felid
  47. Friday bugs, in which I get a fly in the head
  48. Jerry’s Maggot
  49. The Geography of Tapirs
  50. My review of Unscientific America
  51. How the tapir got his spots II
  52. Ghostwriting scientific papers
  53. Sam Harris: the strange case of Francis Collins
  54. Guest blogger!
  55. How the tapir got his spots
  56. Unartistic America
  57. WhineFest: student sues college for tuition
  58. Andrew Brown can’t stop whingeing
  59. Wisconsin father convicted of homicide; prays instead of taking daughter to doctor
  60. Caturday felids: Dante and Schoenberg
  61. The harmonious ape

July 2009

  1. Robert Wright’s faitheist manifesto
  2. Slimehead and chips, please
  3. “Birthers” a majority among Republicans
  4. New York Times readers write in on Collins
  5. Summer reading from Nature
  6. Francis Collins pollutes science with religion
  7. Review of Robert Wright’s “The Evolution of God”
  8. The Gaza “zebra”
  9. Review of “The Link,” a book about a fossil primate
  10. Caturday felids
  11. Why there are no “fundamentalist atheists”
  12. Faitheist t.v.: Historian of science joins young-earth creationist in an old fashioned Coyne-and-Dawkins roast
  13. Guidelines for posting
  14. Why toucans have big bills
  15. More lying creationists, now with Biblical justification
  16. Stephen Meyer lies again
  17. Chris Mooney on NSF funding
  18. Responses to creationist piece in Boston Globe
  19. Sarah Palin has found her calling
  20. Russell Blackford on “knee-jerk atheism”
  21. Whoops — new winner
  22. Caturday felids: a trifecta
  23. New stuff in Science
  24. We have a winner!
  25. Sean Carroll on the nature of science
  26. Contest closes tomorrow
  27. Collins to resign from BioLogos Foundation
  28. The faithful are too fun!
  29. The vestigial grasp of infants
  30. Unscientific America etc. etc.
  31. Pro-intelligent-design editorial in Boston Globe
  32. Recommended reading: fiction
  33. Unscientific Unscientific America. Part 1.
  34. Atheists are funnier
  35. Caturday felid double-header: How do cheetahs run so fast? And Toby the kitten survives a spin cycle.
  36. Steven Pinker on Francis Collins
  37. Eugenie Scott and Chris Mooney dissemble about accommodationism
  38. Francis Collins as NIH director
  39. Contest!
  40. Almost-live report: Daniel Dennett at the Cambridge Darwin-and-faith bash
  41. What am I supposed to do with Unscientific America?
  42. Stuff that looks like other stuff
  43. Jesus and Mo on apophatic theology
  44. More failures to find human behavior genes
  45. The water chevrotain: almost like a whale
  46. Robert Hinde refuses to speak at Templeton-sponsored event
  47. The case for Dog
  48. The world’s only poisonous primate
  49. A fish with humanoid teeth
  50. The Hall of Shame: God, evolution, and quantum mechanics
  51. Caturday felids
  52. More Jesus and Mo on accommodation!
  53. Darwinius, the “link” and the book
  54. Jesus and Mo have been reading Mooney
  55. Pat Buchanan makes a monkey of himself about evolution
  56. Almost done: are science and faith compatible?
  57. Madeleine Bunting, fifth-rate accommodationist
  58. Mooney and Kirshenbaum: Atheists turn Americans from science, strangle puppies
  59. I get email too: a convert

June 2009

  1. Jason Rosenhouse goes to the creation museum and a symposium on theistic evolution
  2. WEIT on Newsweek’s “50 Books For Our Times”
  3. Accommodationism: onward and downward
  4. Which theology should we respect?
  5. Caturday felid
  6. Genetic determinism? Not so fast.
  7. Krauss attacks accommodationism in the Wall Street Journal
  8. Mano a mano, Sam Harris vs. Phillip Ball
  9. Lion cubs in Tulsa zoo
  10. Quote of the week
  11. Jesus and Mo and Templeton
  12. Sean Carroll on the compatibility of faith and science
  13. Fighting back against Templeton
  14. Caturday felids: Mr. Peebles, world’s smallest cat, and Leo, the longest cat
  15. Andrew Brown makes another dumb argument for accommodationism
  16. Brown + Ruse vs. Myers: Are atheists responsible for creationism?
  17. Science and “the transcendent world”
  18. Science vs. theism: a debate with Kenneth Miller. Part II: Out of context
  19. Science vs. theism: a debate with Kenneth Miller. Part I: Throat-clearing
  20. Darwin symposium at Irvine
  21. Quote of the day, and more
  22. Threat of the day
  23. BBC gives a voice to creationists in misguided effort to be neutral
  24. Does religion have greater “epistemic authority” than science in some areas?
  25. Blackford 10, NOMA 0
  26. A defense of accommodationism and a misunderstanding
  27. Caturday felids: scuba-diving cats
  28. The echidna has a four-headed penis
  29. The Big Accommodationism Debate: all relevant posts
  30. Quote of the day
  31. P. Z. Myers is evil
  32. Shoot me now: Coca Cola is an official partner of the Creation Museum
  33. More on Mooney and accommodationism (with a note on Rosenhouse)
  34. New work on an ancient mammal
  35. Scientists again see natural selection in real time
  36. Transitional fossils
  37. Caturday felid
  38. Rosenhouse vs. Mooney
  39. Homeopathy killed a little girl
  40. Now. . . “Erratic Synapse” vs. Mooney
  41. Did Chris Mooney tell me to shut up?
  42. The evolution of laughter
  43. The face of — in the dirt!
  44. Gay penguins rear adopted chick
  45. Awwgasm: European wildcats
  46. Dennis Overbye on faith vs. science
  47. Chris Mooney and Barbara Forrest love the faithful more than me
  48. Tiller murderer caught

May 2009

  1. P. Z. Myers posts a felid
  2. Abortion doctor killed in Kansas
  3. Caturday felid
  4. A gene for human speech?
  5. Creationists sabotage WEIT in bookstores!
  6. Did cooking make us human?
  7. Accommodation vs. appeasement
  8. Jesus appears in Marmite
  9. Collins may be NIH director
  10. The evolution of house cats
  11. An annotated Origin of Species
  12. Karl Giberson defends accommodationism
  13. Caturday felid (late)
  14. How do we know that speciation is true?
  15. Are Komodo dragons venomous?
  16. How to subscribe to this website
  17. Join the Reason Project
  18. Daniel Hauser and mother flee to Mexico
  19. Darwinius: what’s at issue?
  20. How the giraffe got its long neck II
  21. Contest: Name a truth revealed by faith
  22. Has the name Darwinius masillae been published? And if so, by who?
  23. Paleontology and the media
  24. Can the supernatural be studied? Kiri-kin-tha’s first law of metaphysics
  25. Child doomed by religious faith: update
  26. How the giraffe got its long neck
  27. Caturday Felid: Anoles vs. Predators
  28. Steps toward the origin of life
  29. Meet your guest blogger (again)
  30. Darwin in Cambridge (and Richard Dawkins too!)
  31. Why the evolution of humans was NOT inevitable; BioLogos peddles more dubious science
  32. World’s weirdest fish
  33. More on Dick Lewontin and WEIT: what’s the deal with natural selection?
  34. Teacher sanctioned for calling creationism what it is
  35. Online radio interview with Dr. Alvin Augustus Jones
  36. Another child killed by religion
  37. BioLogos Foundation’s “suggested reading”
  38. Please play nice
  39. Caturday Felid
  40. YouTube review of WEIT
  41. Atheist bus campaign moves nearby
  42. Child doomed by religious faith
  43. Russell Blackford on The National Academy of Sciences and its accommodationism
  44. P. Z. Myers goes after Templeton
  45. Dick Lewontin reviews Brown, Gibson, Darwin, and Coyne in the NYRB
  46. Winnie the Flu
  47. World Science Festival Redux
  48. Hobbits are back, and they’re REAL!
  49. Francis Collins sees God in quantum mechanics
  50. Preserved protein from an 80-million-year old dinosaur support the dinosaurian origin of birds
  51. In which I refuse an invitation to the World Science Festival on grounds of accommodationism
  52. Don’t smuggle wild animals!
  53. The evolutionary biology of the swine flu virus
  54. What early Europeans might have looked like
  55. Bill Maher sells evolution using swine flu
  56. Poor beleaguered Melanie Phillips!
  57. More creationism in the UK
  58. The genetic history of Africans
  59. Caturday felid: kitten versus fan
  60. UK columnist defends intelligent design
  61. The evolution of the immune system
  62. 40,000-year-old frozen mammoth
  63. Accommodationism, philosophy, and the meaning of life

April 2009

  1. First Nobel Laureate to reach 100
  2. Remarkable dancing birds: a cure for Parkinson’s?
  3. Accommodationism and the nature of our world
  4. Wednesday relief cat
  5. Shoot me now: Francis Collins’s new supernaturalist website
  6. News from the “hobbit conference” in New York
  7. The dust settles (a little) at Panda’s Thumb
  8. Homeschooling and evolution
  9. Da Bear
  10. Clue #1
  11. Celebratory contest
  12. Evolutionary psychology: the adaptive significance of semen flavor
  13. WEIT reviewed on Bad Astronomy
  14. Caturday Felid–Wake UP!
  15. P. Z. gets a column, and more on what counts as evidence for evolution
  16. More Louisiana citizens reject than accept evolution
  17. The evolution of sex chromosomes
  18. Happy Easter — Aussie style
  19. 1% not chimpanzee
  20. Where are the songbirds going?
  21. The Great Oxidation Event
  22. A slightly different Caturday felid
  23. Another evolutionary mystery – the Stegosaur’s plates
  24. Happy Birthday, Lungless Frog!
  25. WEIT in TREE
  26. The billion trillion zillion trees of life
  27. Of mosquitoes and the menopause
  28. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online
  29. The wonders of camouflage
  30. Recent natural selection in human populations
  31. Introducing the vacation blogger
  32. BBC program: “Did Darwin Kill God?”
  33. What counts as evidence for evolution?
  34. Caturday felid: talking cats
  35. Point of Inquiry radio show
  36. Scientists criticize The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
  37. Of what value is evolutionary biology in medicine?
  38. We did it!
  39. Green porno, but safe for work
  40. WEIT review: Kevin Padian sucks me back into into the religion/science quagmire
  41. Those crazy Germans play a Darwin-related April Fool joke

March 2009

  1. Russell Blackford goes after faith/science compatibility
  2. Buy my book or I’ll shoot this kitten!
  3. Summary of news on Texas decision
  4. No conflict between science and faith? Think again.
  5. Dick Lewontin is 80 today
  6. Why pygmies?
  7. Two good pieces on evolution in Newsweek
  8. Outcome in Texas: Mixed but not that great. Lunacy spreads to Florida
  9. Caturday mustelid
  10. Caturday felid
  11. More on Texas: Good guys winning, but it’s dicey
  12. A stunning behavior: dolphins blowing bubbles
  13. Proof that dogs dream
  14. Hijinks in Texas!
  15. A bit more about catering to the faithful
  16. Sexual selection
  17. WEIT reviewed in Current Biology
  18. Must we always cater to the faithful when teaching science?
  19. Anthony Grayling reviews WEIT, and another book too
  20. Last bit about New Scientist
  21. The amazing vocal skills of the lyrebird
  22. The New Scientist has no shame–again!
  23. A pink elephant!
  24. In which I make a misteak about the Xoloitzcuintli
  25. The best YouTube video ever: Man + Dog + Sheep = Art
  26. Who is the type specimen of Homo sapiens?
  27. Caturday felids: two for one!
  28. Basiliscus magnified
  29. More birdlike behavior in theropod dinosaurs
  30. I get email from Philip Skell
  31. Good new paper on the fish-tetrapod transition
  32. Philip Skell’s creationism disowned by his own family
  33. Domestication of horses: a New York Times editorial
  34. Holiday snap: the Jesus Christ lizard
  35. Videos from WEIT collected in one place
  36. WEIT reviewed in Christian Science Monitor and Nature
  37. WEIT reviewed in Christian Science Monitor
  38. Correction of a book error: the Xoloitzcuintli, a jawbreaker of a dog
  39. “Viva La Evolucion” tee shirts
  40. Scientific American Podcast for WEIT
  41. Caturday felid
  42. Caturday felid (II)
  43. Fidel reading Darwin: Viva la Evolucion
  44. “I think it right…thus publicly to read my recantation”
  45. Frank Egerton on Darwin and the Beagle
  46. Chimps throwing stones
  47. Neanderthals and sex
  48. Scientific integrity
  49. The palimpsest theory
  50. Caturday cricetid
  51. Coat color in wolves
  52. Deep time
  53. Interview with Jerry in American Scientist
  54. Skell pwned again
  55. Stephen Jay Gould and the origin of jaws
  56. Sympathy for the human: further consideration of my cat Peyton
  57. Feathered dinosaurs
  58. Change we can believe in

February 2009

  1. Caturday felid
  2. Homo footprints from Kenya
  3. More good books
  4. WEIT reviewed in The Bookbag
  5. Meet your guest blogger
  6. Sexual parasitism in anglerfish
  7. Forbes loses it again over evolution
  8. Darwin comedy
  9. Don Prothero’s superb book on the fossil record
  10. Still more on science vs. faith
  11. Caturday Felid
  12. Red-capped manakin moonwalk
  13. Chicken head tracking: a marvel of evolution
  14. Darwin proclaimed wrong AGAIN; we fight back!
  15. Two articles about animal morality
  16. Do animals have morality? A response: “For I will consider my cat Peyton”
  17. Are we ready for an “extended evolutionary synthesis”?
  18. A post from a Polish cat
  19. WEIT and Darwin’s Sacred Cause reviewed in Washington Post
  20. Steven Pinker’s take on the material mind
  21. Male long-tailed manakins display in pairs to a female
  22. Times of London reviews WEIT, and a Darwin MOVIE
  23. Darwin Day, Philadelphia. 1. I meet Ken Miller
  24. Simon Conway Morris becomes a creationist
  25. WHYY radio interview
  26. Caturday felids
  27. Post hoc-ism in apologetics
  28. On re-reading The Origin
  29. Freedom of expression?
  30. On the Origin of Feces
  31. Darwin Day in Philly
  32. A very strange review of WEIT on Huffington Post
  33. In which I am forced to take on Forbes magazine
  34. Richard Dawkins reviews WEIT
  35. WEIT reviewed in San Francisco Chronicle
  36. The semantic argument about “Darwinism” continues
  37. In Philly for Darwin Day
  38. Radio show Friday
  39. The plural of “octopus”
  40. Speciation celebrated in the NYT
  41. Darwinism must die????
  42. How cats purr
  43. Darwin’s Birthday in Philadelphia
  44. Darwin the prude, sexual selection, and sperm competition
  45. A weird early arthropod from Germany
  46. A bizarre case of sound mimicry involving caterpillars and ants
  47. Saturday felid (a shameless play for attention)
  48. Review of WEIT in Science
  49. The science/religion compatibility debate continues. . . .
  50. Your Inner Fish. . . now in paperback
  51. A brand-new whale fossil
  52. WEIT makes New York Times Best Seller list
  53. Cat treats and dead genes
  54. Genes for surviving after reproduction
  55. Review of WEIT and Darwin books in The Scotsman
  56. Is “The Hobbit” a fraud?

January 2009

  1. More on the evolution of flight
  2. Review of WEIT in Wall Street Journal
  3. A really cool evolutionary timeline
  4. Does science promote values?
  5. More evidence of selection in action
  6. New reviews of WEIT
  7. Still more discussion of science and religion
  8. A discussion of science and religion
  9. Book Signing at The University of Chicago
  10. Why Evolution Is True – Available January 22, 2009
  11. The book is out!
  12. Letter to Charles Darwin

2010 →