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December 2010

  1. The most important cat photos and videos of 2010
  2. Disclaimer
  3. Best movie quotes of all time
  4. Happy new year
  5. Beautiful photos from National Geographic
  6. Birthday boots
  7. Land of the free—and unequal
  8. So you think you have snow?
  9. There’s plenty of time for evolution
  10. Eric MacDonald haz a blog
  11. Das Tigerspiel im Schnee
  12. Kitteh contest entry: Calista
  13. Unintelligent design
  14. U of C doc touts NOMA
  15. American universities violate the First Amendment
  16. Zomg
  17. Review: The Warmth of Other Suns (and a note on Bomber County)
  18. Holy Ignorance, a book you might want to read
  19. Do academics need iPads?
  20. Holiday Caturday: the best Christmas gift (if you can wrap it)
  21. Yeats
  22. Christmas music
  23. Josh Rosenau’s strange attitude toward evidence
  24. 2010’s new species
  25. Kitteh contest entry: Basil
  26. I’ve never understood the logic, either
  27. Jupiter!
  28. Ruse: The gift that keeps on gibbering
  29. Foul-weather footwear
  30. The 100 most beautiful English words
  31. The paws that refresh
  32. Is toy use sex-specific?: gender differences in use of sticks by chimpanzees
  33. Tonsorial discrimination
  34. New genes arise quickly
  35. Kitteh contest: another entry
  36. An experimental evolutionist replies to Behe
  37. Rosenhouse explodes Ruse’s Darwinian explanation of original sin and defense of theology as taffy
  38. New Gallup poll: America still creationist (surprise!)
  39. Dover Day
  40. The Gaskell affair
  41. The “don’t ask, don’t tell” vote
  42. Ricky Gervais: why I’m an atheist
  43. Caturday felids: puss ‘n’ Buddhists
  44. Wines for the week
  45. “Rock star of science” hurts science
  46. Winter is icumin in
  47. Barnes and Noble: best nonfiction of 2010
  48. Bound to be awesome
  49. Eric MacDonald reviews Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction
  50. Sophisticated theology: rabbi admits there’s no proof of God
  51. Dipteran of the week
  52. Wednesday felid!
  53. A whistling caterpillar
  54. Casey Luskin distorts Behe’s paper
  55. Boudry et al. on irreducible complexity
  56. IDers already distorting Behe’s new paper
  57. Meteor shower tonight
  58. Dances with robots
  59. Behe’s new paper
  60. Hitchens on Beck and the Tea Party
  61. Kitteh contest winners!
  62. Kitteh contest winners: runner-up #2
  63. Dawkins writes his father’s obituary
  64. Kitteh contest: grand prize winner!
  65. The “decline effect”: can we demonstrate anything in science?
  66. Terrible hairy fly and other beasts
  67. Holiday gift suggestions
  68. The scientists’ war on Republicans
  69. Terrible hairy fly rediscovered
  70. “Reinforcement” and the origin of species
  71. Footwear for a kickass lab
  72. The dubious arsenic bacterium
  73. Of cats and men: old genes give embryos an hourglass figure
  74. Dawkins’s “hero of 2010”
  75. Some frogs from Colombia, including the world’s most poisonous vertebrate
  76. Cat contest update
  77. Redundant parts
  78. A remarkable “flying” snake
  79. Caturday felid: lions
  80. Republicans: the party of the rich, privileged, and obstructionist
  81. Kitteh contest update
  82. I haz a floo

November 2010

  1. Bring out your kittehs: contest closing soon!
  2. Behe gets published
  3. NCSE becomes BioLogos
  4. Bogotá: fruits and flowers
  5. Blackford on “other ways of knowing”
  6. Caturday felid: cat lapping!
  7. Reports: Blair-Hitchens debate
  8. The beakiest bird
  9. Videos of TB vs. CH debate
  10. New books on evolution and vertebrates
  11. Best kitteh ever
  12. After the fact
  13. The surreal treehoppers
  14. Smackdown!: Blair vs. Hitchens
  15. An appeal for help: is there such a thing as instinct?
  16. Don’t overdo it!
  17. Do cheerleaders and rock stars promote science education?
  18. My awesome operation
  19. Post-op footwear
  20. How, and how fast, did the human brain evolve?
  21. Tuataras in the news
  22. Pre-op footwear
  23. Islam in the UK: Jews are pigs and monkeys, gays should be killed
  24. Bring out your kittehs
  25. Islam outside the UK: religion of peace?
  26. Weekday update
  27. FiveBooks.com: natural history recommendations
  28. Guardian podcast: is religion a force for good?
  29. Why is sex good?
  30. Hasta la proxima, Cartagena
  31. The NCSE enables more woo
  32. Dembski-Hitchens debate
  33. Caturday felid: climbers—kitteh, ibexes, and baboons
  34. Moar gold!
  35. What is this bird?
  36. A final lunch in Colombia
  37. Do I really have to answer this guy?
  38. Hybridization and parthenogenesis in whiptail lizards
  39. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Grayling
  40. Yet another Cartagena lunch: comida costeña
  41. Keeping the humanities alive
  42. That lizard was delicious– what kind was it?
  43. A creditable Cartagena lunch (without lizards)
  44. Walls: Cartagena
  45. The instruments of torture
  46. Hasta la próxima, Bogotá
  47. A new Anomalocaris mystery
  48. Harris on MSNBC
  49. Colombian gold fauna
  50. Yet another lunch
  51. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Uncle Karl
  52. The world’s bravest cat
  53. Uncle Karl runs out of gas
  54. Wasps: artists or robots?
  55. Guardian interview with Hitchens
  56. Science goes to Hollywood– favorite movie scenes, 3
  57. Mi rana
  58. Un bocado
  59. At least 80% of Republicans are morons
  60. Uncle Karl becomes Mooney
  61. Almuerzo!
  62. Dawkins + kitteh = awesome
  63. Dumb questions online: is there an “impenetrable wall” between humans and other creatures?
  64. Caturday felid– No. 1, the jaguar
  65. Caturday felid number 2
  66. Caturday felid– No.3, the snow leopard
  67. A Colombian snack
  68. Science goes to Hollywood– favorite movie scenes, 2
  69. Dinner in Bogotá
  70. Science goes to Hollywood– favorite movie scenes, 1
  71. A lunch for the speakers
  72. Blackford: moar on scientism
  73. The physics of kitteh drinking
  74. It’s the science, stupid.
  75. Things we never knew: maggots are covered with eyes!
  76. Science goes to Hollywood– what are your favorites?
  77. The treats of Colombia
  78. Medellín, Colombia
  79. US government opposes gene patenting
  80. Great literary endings, part 3
  81. The treats of Colombia
  82. New Scientist defends bad science
  83. Blackford on scientism: what questions defeat science?
  84. Great literary endings, part 2
  85. Science and morality: a Science Friday discussion
  86. Carl Zimmer on Unscientific Hollywood
  87. The best endings in literature
  88. Caturday felid trifecta: Lynx kittens, Amur leopard cubs, and a cowboy kitten
  89. My NYT review of What Technology Wants
  90. Peregrinations
  91. Hitchens update
  92. Can New Scientist get any worse on evolution?
  93. Massimo apologizes
  94. Greta Christina on The Controversy
  95. The accommodationist manual of style
  96. A good book on bad science
  97. Unhappy meals
  98. Footwear for a well-dressed Thursday
  99. Epigenetics kerfuffle
  100. Election 2010
  101. Islamic apologetics in a cardiology journal
  102. What we’re in for
  103. I haz a priez
  104. Trouble at Templeton?
  105. Sean Carroll on the “supernatural”
  106. God didn’t bless America
  107. November!
  108. Carnival of Evolution
  109. “Bring out your dead”: science identifies ancient plagues
  110. Halloween fun for Baptists

October 2010

  1. Scientific evidence for psychic powers?
  2. A nice book site
  3. Caturday felids: Happy Halloween!
  4. Theological catfight!
  5. The greatest rock song of all time
  6. Culinary delights of the Lower East Side: The Pickle Guys
  7. Stenger buried again at HuffPo
  8. Another kosher treat
  9. Culinary delights of the Lower East Side: Russ & Daughters
  10. More on cat genetics
  11. So many books, so little time
  12. Dr. Karl still on rampage, claims that theology advances
  13. Culinary delights of the Lower East Side: Economy Candy
  14. The evolution of cat coat patterns
  15. We had a storm
  16. Halloween is coming
  17. Culinary delights of the Lower East Side: Yonah Shimmel’s
  18. Update on Hauser case: some exoneration?
  19. I’m told to shut up again
  20. Bad taste ad of the month
  21. O noes! I iz primitiv filosofur
  22. October
  23. Culinary delights of the Lower East Side: Katz’s
  24. “Science wins because it works”
  25. Epigenetics: the light and the way?
  26. Moar evidence for evolution
  27. The bialy
  28. Caturday felids: Maru sells out (plus reader bonus)
  29. Shark jaws
  30. I get nice letters, too
  31. No comment
  32. Moar divine intercession
  33. Secular ethics classes a success in Oz
  34. Methodological naturalism: does it exclude the supernatural?
  35. Footwear for the well-dressed scientist: day 5
  36. Is depression an evolved adaptation?: envoi
  37. Footwear for the well-dressed scientist: day 4 (plus contest)
  38. 115 years of debate about evidence for God
  39. A new world’s longest cat!
  40. I knew it
  41. NYT discusses politics of global warming, ignores facts
  42. Terry Eagleton pwned again
  43. Egg-eating snakes
  44. Footwear for the well-dressed scientist: day 3
  45. Religion doesn’t make people nice
  46. This just in: Glenn Beck a moron
  47. Frans de Waal on the origin of morality—and atheism
  48. Footwear for the well-dressed scientist: day 2
  49. Campaign LOLz
  50. Flushed with victory: Aussie firemen save trapped kitten
  51. A wrongheaded book review
  52. Footwear for the well-dressed scientist
  53. On P.Z. Myers on evidence for a god
  54. Ten needless deaths
  55. NY Times report on humanism conference
  56. Caturday felids: bonus
  57. I get letters
  58. Jesus ‘n’ Mo(hler)
  59. Guess the bones
  60. Hitchens vs. Hitchens: the brothers debate the viability of a godless civilization
  61. Christine O’Donnell ducks question about evolution, disses first amendment
  62. I get email: amateur theodicy
  63. The late Ernst Mayr speaks
  64. Videos of L.A. panel discussion on accommodationism
  65. CfI podcast on accommodationism
  66. It’s not just species that are going extinct
  67. A new vontsira discovered!
  68. Hitchens in Tumortown
  69. Videos from Copenhagen atheist meetings
  70. Global warming and the flat earth
  71. Can there be evidence for God?
  72. Christine O’Donnell’s new campaign ad
  73. USA Today strikes back
  74. The Gnu Atheist symbol
  75. Peregrinations: Kentucky
  76. Moar on the Smithsonian’s human evolution exhibit
  77. Whazzup with the Harris/Wright debate?
  78. Another religion quiz
  79. Wright/Harris debate
  80. L. A. Times report on the Secular Humanism conference
  81. My USA Today op-ed: Science and religion aren’t friends
  82. Caturday felids: differently-abled kitteh and Gnucat
  83. The week’s worst defense of religion
  84. The bucket list: Angel Falls
  85. How religious are American professors?
  86. Secular Humanism conference live-streamed
  87. New translation of WEIT
  88. Most lyrical quote ever given to a newspaper
  89. Mario Vargas Llosa nabs Nobel, nobody nabs my book
  90. Kitcher versus Dennett: Is New Atheism counterproductive?
  91. David Koch and the Hall of Human Origins
  92. More on climate change and the Smithsonian exhibition
  93. Evolution exhibits and religion
  94. Wednesday marsupial
  95. Benson asks: “Who are the strident Gnus?”
  96. Is there life in the Solar System?
  97. Is Francis Collins a deist?
  98. Sam Harris on The Daily Show
  99. The Hall of Human Origins at the National Museum of Natural History
  100. Appiah reviews Harris’s The Moral Landscape
  101. Robert Edwards wins Nobel; nobody wins our contest
  102. An evolutionist in the Evolution Range
  103. Vatican decries Nobel Prize
  104. Where’s Muhammad? Not in the papers!
  105. The most beautiful girl in the lab
  106. Dennett: why do atheists know so much about religion?
  107. Save a life for 50p (or around 75 cents)
  108. Pinker on evolution on Olbermann
  109. Caturday felid: Lilou gets a railcard
  110. Jesus and Mo move over—you’ve got competition
  111. The rise and fall of Paul Kurtz
  112. Contest! Guess the Nobel Laureates
  113. The sound of science
  114. Force feed the dodo egg
  115. Times Higher Ed promotes a science-faith lovefest
  116. Dawkins paperback tour
  117. Take the atheist quiz!
  118. Of penicillin and the Incarnation

September 2010

  1. New Scientist’s third way: neither science nor faith
  2. The dark side of Buddhism
  3. Hitchens on Bishop Long
  4. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ moderate Islam
  5. Is there life on Gliese 581g?
  6. John Shook “clarifies”
  7. Moar on Swinburne
  8. A philosopher says we’re doing it rong
  9. This is a post about a blog about web science journalism
  10. Jerry as a Neanderthal
  11. Francis Collins prays for Hitchens
  12. Update: Polly the miracle cat
  13. WEIT at the USNM
  14. Caturday felid: pastry mimics
  15. CfI declares war on atheists
  16. Nobel Laureate retracts two papers
  17. Peregrinations
  18. Adult fly mimics ant larva
  19. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Melville
  20. Krugman on Republican obstructionism
  21. Parting the Red Sea
  22. Another one bites the dust
  23. Moar NOMA
  24. Screen door cat
  25. Should science and faith have a chat?
  26. Today’s picks from the NYT
  27. Moar poetry
  28. Let us not pray
  29. Hitchens and Berlinski debate religion
  30. What Darwin got wrong
  31. A religious “education”
  32. Caturday felids: interspecific love
  33. Are we still evolving? Part 2
  34. Giberson excuses child indoctrination
  35. Dawkins vs. Ratzi
  36. Cat travel week: home again (lab cats)
  37. Our new Science paper
  38. Catholics demand that atheists apologize for Hitler
  39. Final Friday felid: a miracle cat!
  40. Cat travel week: Miscellany
  41. How important is hybridization?
  42. Uncle Karl on the warpath
  43. Why does God hide?
  44. Cat travel week: To Denali in a Beaver
  45. Our new candidate from Delaware
  46. Cat travel week: Istanbul
  47. I get Christian email: more irreducible complexity
  48. Spirituality: the Great Communicator fails again
  49. Jackie Evancho, take 3
  50. Aussie Christians nix ethics classes
  51. Monday felid: the cats of Mystras
  52. A book you’ll want to read
  53. Freedom of what?
  54. Bonus
  55. A wonderful novel
  56. Sean Carroll reviews Hawking
  57. Giant bubbles on Stinson Beach
  58. “Scientists of Duke, be humble.”
  59. G. C. Williams RIP
  60. Caturday felids: bizarre behaviors
  61. Dawn
  62. A lousy paper
  63. On burning a Qur’an
  64. For first-time posters
  65. Apropos
  66. A marvelously mimetic mollusk
  67. Does determinism negate moral responsibility?: A survey
  68. What’s the right way to read the Bible?
  69. Hitch in Birmingham
  70. The Guardian tries to pwn Dawkins
  71. America is going to hell
  72. NY Times pans Hawking’s book
  73. Does religion need evidence?
  74. The evolution of the science/faith debate
  75. Did evolution give us God?
  76. Caturday felids: birthday cat + bonus
  77. A correlation between poverty and religiosity
  78. Science pushes back theology a bit more
  79. Carroll explains Hawking
  80. Colorado paper: P. Z. = Bin Laden
  81. Friday snaps: Igor Siwanowicz
  82. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Mose: why the universe?
  83. Chillin’ with the kids
  84. Hawking: no God behind the Big Bang
  85. Here we go again
  86. Hitchens: Topic of Cancer, part 2
  87. A map of modern science
  88. Palinoscopy
  89. Jackie Evancho, part 2
  90. How they find us
  91. A response from Shermer

August 2010

  1. Relevant readings
  2. Did freedom evolve?
  3. The amazing shot
  4. Collins is okay
  5. I swear I was Egyptian!
  6. A misguided attack on kin selection
  7. Michael, we hardly knew ye
  8. Un bel di
  9. Caturday felid: spines!
  10. Hitch and Harris on moderate Islam
  11. Peregrine Friday: a farewell to falcons
  12. The First Amendment v. the Ten Commandments
  13. A new kind of cloud
  14. Journal: Hauser fabricated data
  15. Peregrine Thursday
  16. Darwin wrong—again??
  17. Peregrine Wednesday
  18. Should religion get a pass?
  19. Francis Collins is stunned
  20. Peregrine Tuesday
  21. Hang tough, P.Z.
  22. P.Z. outa the woods
  23. Who cares if God exists?
  24. Peregrine week!
  25. FalconCam
  26. Dawkins program on UK faith schools
  27. Are we phalluses?
  28. Caturday felids: kneading
  29. Stenger on evolution and accommodationism
  30. Bad breath fells aphids
  31. The spirited atheist
  32. Flash: many Americans are morons
  33. Harvard dean: Hauser guilty of scientific misconduct
  34. Pseudocopulation in orchids
  35. Sex versus sociality: cooperative breeding in birds
  36. Hitchens: I’d do it over again
  37. An elusive being
  38. 2010 Danish national rabbit-hopping championship
  39. Animal farrago
  40. Fund, pray, love
  41. Monday quiz
  42. Whaddya got?
  43. Stenger at HuffPo!
  44. The “mosque” in New York
  45. DarwinFest videos finally up
  46. Teh winners!
  47. Caturday felids: Yodas!
  48. “Real time” selection in humans
  49. Harvard investigates Hauser
  50. Eat, Pray, Love
  51. Maru wins; prizes on!
  52. A bit more on Lucy, tools, and meat
  53. What the faithful call “uncivil”
  54. Why are animals cute?
  55. Kitteh wars: the final smackdown—with prizes!
  56. Did Lucy eat meat?
  57. Ten year old diva
  58. Giberson: Math works, ergo Jesus
  59. Caturday felids: Yodas!
  60. An Atlantic conversation with Christopher Hitchens
  61. Poll crashing!
  62. I haz a prize
  63. Dr. Dr. Dr. Pigliucci replies
  64. Dreher: Hitchens’s success has blinded him to Jebus
  65. Owlcam!
  66. Another sweating professor: Egginton on free will (again)
  67. Four museums in three days
  68. Caturday felids: videos!
  69. Two “new” masterpieces?
  70. Hitchens on Anderson Cooper
  71. What is the sweating professor trying to say?
  72. Hyperiid amphipods, salps and Alien
  73. Artificial life and the RNA world
  74. My debate with Uncle Karl on science and faith
  75. Topic of Cancer
  76. God the CEO
  77. A pity about Jerry Fodor
  78. For Churchill lovers
  79. On civility: Rosenhouse pwns Dreher
  80. Be a biologist!
  81. Gibersonia

July 2010

  1. Caturday felid: the missing lynx
  2. Weiner on immortality
  3. What do they make?
  4. We’re doing it rong (again)
  5. An early felid
  6. Interview with Hitchens
  7. Space pix
  8. Grammar police
  9. The “free will” experiment
  10. Vacation reading from Nature
  11. Gnu atheism
  12. New York Times to readers: of course you have free will.
  13. Frogmouths!
  14. On the incivility of atheists: “Tom Johnson” and Exhibit A
  15. Caturday felid: Pallas cat
  16. Why Orwell Matters
  17. The beast stirs in Lousiana
  18. Nature Immunology to Francis Collins: You’re not helping
  19. Big rich new Templeton magazine
  20. Video of whale pwning yacht
  21. RIP Daniel Schorr
  22. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Elron
  23. Baleen whales: a lovely transitional form
  24. BioLogos gets in bed with the fundies
  25. For first-time posters
  26. Biology and free will
  27. Whale pwns boat
  28. Why are we different colors?
  29. 20 parrot tricks in two minutes
  30. Jesus ‘n’ Mo(oney)
  31. The periodic table of irrational nonsense
  32. Guardian summer reading disses Darwin
  33. The American zoo
  34. Caturday felids: Japanese blogging cats
  35. Selective creationists
  36. New way to reconcile science and faith!
  37. We suck
  38. “Relentless attacks” on clergy?
  39. 4 out of 10 Americans think Jesus will be here soon
  40. Primate evolution: old fossil, old news?
  41. Catholic church says ordination of women a grave crime
  42. The microbes within
  43. Another jerk sees divine providence in Hitchens’s illness
  44. Salacious title of the year
  45. Godawful science reporting: MSNBC says the chicken came before the egg
  46. On science and faith with Karl Giberson
  47. Morphing Japanese owl
  48. Incompatibility
  49. New survey on science and religion
  50. Deceptive predatory cat imitates monkey calls
  51. Three new books say animals have souls, go to heaven
  52. Viva España!
  53. Spain takes World Cup, downs Netherlands 1-0
  54. Caturday felids: ninja-cat-in-the-box and rickrolling
  55. Nongenetic selection and evolution: flies use bacteria to adapt to parasitic worms
  56. Germany 3, Uruguay 2
  57. Two books worth a look
  58. What does it take to become multicellular?
  59. Paul picks Spain; I agree
  60. Friday noms
  61. Jesus ‘n’ Mo(hler)
  62. Albert Mohler: faith and science not compatible, sin makes Earth look old
  63. A Thursday stretch
  64. What evidence would convince you that a god exists?
  65. Why do football players swap jerseys?
  66. El pulpo es correcta: Spain 1, Germany 0
  67. A bad book about humanzees
  68. Les écureuils
  69. How we know the Earth is old
  70. Netherlands 3, Uruguay 2
  71. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ footie ‘n’ Hitch
  72. For all American scientists at work
  73. The problem of warning coloration
  74. A debate: Is Christian theology true?
  75. BioLogos has lost it
  76. David Wolpe on Hitchens
  77. Speciation in the movies
  78. Does the best team win the World Cup?
  79. The World Cup of gluttony
  80. Caturday felids: birthday cat and somnolent kittehs
  81. Two reviews of What Darwin Got Wrong
  82. Ein deutscher Sieg!
  83. Why God used evolution to create humans. Reason #476: He was incompetent.
  84. BioLogos: Don’t tell people that Genesis is fiction
  85. I iz on Twitter
  86. How many species are there?
  87. Footy
  88. Tea Party Jesus

June 2010

  1. Why eyespots?
  2. I meet Professor Steve Steve!
  3. The National Academy goes to the movies
  4. Michael Ruse: human evolution a big problem for Christians
  5. Get well, Hitch
  6. Quote of the week
  7. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Moses
  8. Sharron Angle: God has a plan
  9. Special Sunday felid
  10. Ecklund is framing again
  11. Blackford on the fundamentalist-atheist “spectrum”
  12. “For the good of the species”
  13. The last of the bluefins
  14. Caturday felid: Trifecta! Squee video, world’s cutest felid, and cat-dyed goggie
  15. Atheist-bashing at the Evolution meetings
  16. Oscar the bionic cat
  17. Accommodationist or faitheist? Templeton will pay you big time!
  18. Natural selection in humans: the EPAS1 gene at high altitudes
  19. BioLogos is hurt, really hurt
  20. Peregrinations: Portland
  21. Go USA!
  22. A one-sided “dialogue”
  23. Oil endagers oil-seep communities
  24. Were Adam and Eve real?
  25. NYT reviews Hitch-22
  26. Caturday felid: The cat came back
  27. Holiday snaps: art and science in Wales
  28. Blackford: data give accommodationists no solace
  29. Report: AAAS panel on science and faith
  30. Sean Carroll says goodbye
  31. Different ways of knowing
  32. Solenodons on the BBC
  33. Skeletal anatomy of cartoon characters
  34. The AAAS goes all accommodationist
  35. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Midgley
  36. A last post on Hitch-22
  37. WEIT makes longlist for Royal Society Prize for Science Books
  38. Dog is Not Great
  39. GOOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLLL(s)! World Cup 2010
  40. Giberson apologizes for fibbing and stridency
  41. Hitch versus Prince Charles
  42. The human genome ten years on (part 2) – it ain’t necessarily so
  43. Hitch-22: my take
  44. Caturday felid (with goggie bonus): sympathy, trust, gratitude
  45. U.S. ties England
  46. Hawking on faith/science compatibility
  47. World Cup fever
  48. My finest hour
  49. Another day at the museum
  50. Galileo, the Church, and Apollo 15
  51. Caturday Felid- spotted lions
  52. In praise of Springwatch
  53. The Nation report on Templeton
  54. Philip Kitcher on science journalism
  55. More reviews of Hitch-22
  56. Peregrinations
  57. Best movies (add yours)
  58. Hitch-22, a memoir
  59. Templeton back at the World Science Festival

May 2010

  1. Did humans evolve to fill a “cognitive niche”?
  2. The face of NOMA
  3. Caturday felids: Cool cats
  4. Steven Weinberg’s Lake Views
  5. Jesus ‘n Mo ‘n Gould
  6. Jesus ‘n Mo ‘n Craig
  7. The new Templeton Prize winner speaks
  8. The new Templeton Prize winner speaks again!
  9. The Gulf and Mississippi Delta
  10. Is depression an adaptation?
  11. A whole lotta shakin’ going on
  12. Religious beliefs can be true and false at the same time
  13. The mysteries of migration
  14. Grayling on the Dalai Lama
  15. Gibersonia: who’s befouling the sandbox?
  16. Karl Giberson: It’s un-American to criticize faith
  17. Accommodationism du jour: Michael Zimmerman
  18. Top 10 new species of 2009
  19. Interview at UFM, Guatemala
  20. Caturday felids: Cattooes
  21. The lies of Texas are upon you
  22. Genetic technology: did scientists play God?
  23. Trompe l’oil
  24. Rosenhouse reviews Ecklund
  25. Natural selection in action
  26. Rand Paul: race discrimination is just free speech
  27. I iz in ur interwebz, drawin ur profut
  28. Scott to grads: Trust your brain
  29. A real campaign ad
  30. Brit Hume: “The ocean absorbs a lot”
  31. Two thumbs up for Last Chance to See
  32. Blaming the scientists: Giberson pins creationism on atheists, evolutionists
  33. How important is group selection?
  34. Giant oarfish caught off Sweden
  35. Fox news chastizes BP
  36. Weekend update
  37. The world’s most fearless animal
  38. New books I won’t be reading
  39. Caturday felids: lion whisperer and silent meow
  40. A few minutes with Andy Rooney
  41. Modern life had a single origin
  42. Government overrules biologists to allow offshore drilling
  43. Vancouver!
  44. Archaeopteryx probably couldn’t fly
  45. O noes! Another species of human in Eurasia?
  46. Weekend update
  47. The Burgess Shale fauna was around a lot longer than we thought
  48. Jesus and Mo on stridency
  49. Videos from the Chicago Darwin conference
  50. Forbidden love
  51. I haz card!
  52. Do religious Americans accept evolution?
  53. The benighted
  54. Another review of What Darwin Got Wrong
  55. Lena Horne (1917-yesterday)
  56. Dan Barker pwns Fox News
  57. Does evolution improve theology?
  58. Caturday felids: Teddy wakes up and marked kittehs
  59. Polkinghorne on quantum physics and theodicy
  60. Close encounters of the weird kind: Quick guide to the Neandertal genome
  61. Say it with crayons
  62. World’s largest beaver dam found
  63. Dick Lewontin reviews What Darwin Got Wrong
  64. Should psychics be allowed to advertise?
  65. Do chimps say “no” by shaking their heads?
  66. We carry Neanderthal genes!!!
  67. Futuyma reviews What Darwin Got Wrong
  68. The Brain Mutiny
  69. Real-time natural selection on crops and their pests
  70. BioLogos to scientists: stop advocating
  71. We have a winner! Spring reading contest.
  72. Douglas Adams on endangered life
  73. Caturday felids: bafftime!
  74. Aphids nab pigment genes from fungus

April 2010

  1. Do chimps know death?
  2. Greatest nature photographs?
  3. In the TLS, F & P-P claim an “egregious misreading”
  4. Crayola: the official marker of the Tea Party movement
  5. This is what college should be.
  6. Boobquake
  7. Yeast, evolution, and medicine
  8. Felid contest winner
  9. The pile-on continues: Robert Richards reviews What Darwin Got Wrong
  10. Caturday felid: ninja BBQ cat!
  11. Saturday thumbs
  12. Mo the Bear
  13. Visit to Adlai Stevenson High
  14. Contests close today
  15. I review What Darwin Got Wrong and The Greatest Show on Earth for The Nation
  16. Peregrinations
  17. On biology and entropy: the NYT interviews physicist Sean Carroll
  18. A book and a movie
  19. HuffPo screws up evolution again
  20. Good to the last dropping: coffee from civet dung
  21. Caturday felids: les chats de Paris
  22. HuffPo: arrest Richard Dawkins
  23. Caturday felid, part deux
  24. Michael Ruse admits he was wrong about Catholicism
  25. Best U.S. graduate schools for ecology and evolution
  26. National Day of Prayer ruled unconstitutional
  27. Contest!: spring reading
  28. Pescado a pescado
  29. Can we refute creationism in evolution class?
  30. Jason Rosenhouse on testing the supernatural
  31. Connecticut middle school: evolution is “philosophically unsatisfactory.”
  32. My frog
  33. No conflict between science and faith?
  34. A golden age of science?
  35. Catholic bishop: The Jews killed Christ, and they’re killing us too.
  36. Can we apply science to the supernatural?
  37. Krista Tippett on science and faith
  38. … breeding mulleins out of the dead land.
  39. Sunday felid, or, the evolution of bipedalism?
  40. Cryptozoological Caturday Felid: The Beast of Bodmin and its relatives
  41. A C Grayling on David Lewis-Williams and the evolution of religion
  42. US National Science Board tries to suppress knowledge of Americans’ scientific illiteracy
  43. Is ID blasphemous?
  44. New australopithecine described
  45. The human genome 10 years on – so what?
  46. The Lakeland yeti?
  47. Brian Cox and the snottites from Mars
  48. “Oriental yeti”– April Fools?
  49. Evolution, animals, and gay behavior
  50. The incomparable Feynman
  51. Late Sunday Cephalopod
  52. Caturday felid: Easter!
  53. For your Saturday delectation
  54. Off to Paris
  55. More on the evolution of human brain size
  56. Ayala interview
  57. Teabonics
  58. More on Simon Singh
  59. BioLogos abjures science
  60. Simon Singh wins appeal
  61. Biggest atheist meeting yet!
  62. Must-read science book: Dirac
  63. Theists on the run
  64. Philip Pullman: nobody has the right not to be offended
  65. The weird world of the small

March 2010

  1. Templeton claws its way to respectability
  2. Obama is an atheist
  3. Jesus and Mo and Ratzi
  4. Texas boots
  5. No quantum leap in human brain size?
  6. Can the pope!
  7. Greta Christina on concern trolls
  8. Texas, Part I: beasts
  9. Albino squirrel update
  10. Christian militia group arrested
  11. New paper on speciation from our lab
  12. British biologist tells fanciful tales about brain evolution
  13. Caturday felid: the King Cheetah
  14. Republicans lose it over health care
  15. Quantum physics again proves a theistic God
  16. Polymorphism in vertebrates
  17. Three pieces on Templeton
  18. Samir Okasha trashes Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini
  19. Nobel laureate protests the NAS/Templeton connection
  20. Ayala nabs Templeton Prize
  21. San Marcos newspaper: Coyne proves that we evolved from monkeys
  22. National Academy president nominates winner of Templeton Prize
  23. Do animals commit suicide?
  24. Tag team: Deepak Chopra and Jean Houston vs. Michael Shermer and Sam Harris!
  25. Hitchens on Catholic child abusers
  26. Flightless parrot has sex with a human
  27. Suzan Mazur hearts Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini
  28. Yay! We can has health care!
  29. Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions
  30. Templeton coopts National Academy of Sciences
  31. New human evolution hall at the National Museum of Natural History
  32. Fodor and Sober talk natural selection
  33. March is the cruelest month…
  34. Caturday felids: home on teh range & smackdown!
  35. Weekend accommodationism
  36. Texas bound
  37. Worst science journalism of the year: Darwin completely wrong (again)
  38. Science/faith incompatibility at HuffPo
  39. Dennett and LaScola study of nonbelieving clergy
  40. What we’re up against
  41. Thursday update
  42. Thom Hartmann clip: home-schooling
  43. Do “polar bears” exist?
  44. Pigliucci pwns Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini
  45. New science book
  46. Quote of the day
  47. Birds are getting smaller
  48. Michael Ruse is back to being good (sort of)
  49. Hitchens on the Pope
  50. Tuesday radio bit
  51. Caturday felid: atheist cat
  52. Andrew Brown on the Catholic church: it’s no worse than other child abusers
  53. Good to the last dropping: pitcher plant evolves to be shrew loo
  54. God 1, Hispanics 0
  55. Black penguin!!!
  56. “So what do you do for a living?”
  57. Michael Ruse’s new book
  58. A new guide to The Origin
  59. Radio bit on home-schooling, and more angry emails
  60. Global warming: temporal pattern of public opinion
  61. Weekday update: Templeton, homeschooling, evolution, and accommodationists
  62. Hitchens on the Danish cartoons
  63. Another person finds God in quantum mechanics
  64. Rod Dreher and the Templeton “bribe”
  65. Ruse on academic anti-Darwinists
  66. The home-schoolers respond
  67. The letters of Vincent van Gogh
  68. Evolution and home-schooling poll
  69. Caturday felid: cat elevators
  70. “Ida” not a missing link
  71. Evolution and home-schooling redux
  72. Only in America
  73. Ken Miller can’t win? P.Z. and me gets pwned.
  74. Teach the controversy: now with added global warming
  75. Insects are crustaceans!
  76. How culture affects genes and vice versa
  77. Christians want orca stoned to death
  78. Vancouver Sun: Madame Blavatsky = Charles Darwin
  79. Ancient snake ate baby dinosaurs!
  80. Would you take the next bite?
  81. Forewarned is forearmed: crickets warn their eggs of nearby spiders
  82. In which I wiggle my ears

February 2010

  1. Two new books
  2. Caturday trifecta: head-percher, ice-fisher, and ninja kitty
  3. The Templeton Bribe
  4. Animals should not be entertainment
  5. Ruse: the trouble with Richard Dawkins
  6. Francis Collins can’t help himself
  7. Spiders to Fodor: get lost!
  8. Two philosophers review What Darwin Got Wrong
  9. Discovery Institute: We heart Fodor and Piattelli-Palmerini
  10. Creationists finally explain extinction
  11. Guess the author: answer
  12. Caturday felid: kittehs vs. bears—no contest!
  13. New science: ancient eukaryotes and altruistic ants
  14. Guess the author
  15. Ruse and Midgley on Fodor and Piattelli-Palmerini on natural selection
  16. Rosenhouse: is the Bible a science textbook?
  17. Tut, tut. . . not so fast
  18. What killed King Tut?
  19. “Law” of physics broken
  20. Monday fleas: Templeton!
  21. Interview: Sam Harris on morality, faith, and atheism
  22. The world’s 50 freakiest animals
  23. Valentine kitteh
  24. Morality and religion: are they genetic adaptations?
  25. Hitch on Freethought Radio
  26. Caturday felids: Simon’s cats
  27. A paleobiologist’s response to Darwin’s Dilemma
  28. Texas school board: we’re a Christian country
  29. Andrew Brown, The Guardian‘s resident moron
  30. Good philosophy: Anthony Grayling on Cherie Blair
  31. 4000-year-old human genome sequenced
  32. Computer simulations: approaching and entering a black hole
  33. Jesus ‘n’ Mo on Kuhn
  34. Famous philosopher and Templeton-Prize winner: science = faith
  35. The Apocalypse: $8 for an airline blanket
  36. Darwin missed a chance
  37. Apropos Drs. Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini
  38. Don’t pick on the moderates!
  39. Amazing hunting behavior of killer whales
  40. Darwin Day in Wisconsin
  41. Caturday felids: sand cat
  42. Richard Dawkins on Bill Hamilton
  43. New Scientist blurbs dumb ideas about evolution
  44. Freethought Radio podcast
  45. Colored dinosaurs: Part II
  46. Review: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
  47. Solution to anti-vaccination controversy: build bridges?
  48. Cryptozoology
  49. Pseudoscientist reprimanded, pseudoscience retracted
  50. The RNA world lives on the TLS letter page
  51. Even bright, well educated people misunderstand evolution
  52. The NY Times on the Iraqi dowsing rods
  53. Giant squid!! (Sort of!!)

January 2010

  1. Darwin in Baltimore!
  2. Caturday felid: the Spotted Lion
  3. An attack on evolution, from our side
  4. Peregrinations
  5. WEIT a top tenner in China
  6. Do migratory monarch butterflies evolve larger wings?
  7. Accommodationists vs. creationists: we all lose.
  8. Vestigial organ—goosebumps
  9. Ross Douthat’s theodicy
  10. Feathered dinosaurs—in color!
  11. Nephew’s choice: best movies of the decade
  12. New York Times readers respond to James Wood
  13. Paperback today!
  14. Humanist chaplain calls for godless congregations
  15. Dawkins at On Faith
  16. Holiday snaps: giant tortoise!
  17. New York Times: Haiti and theodicy
  18. Caturday felids: video trifecta!
  19. Does insecurity promote faith?
  20. Big debate!
  21. Holiday snaps
  22. Octopus with airstream
  23. What made Darwin sick?
  24. Religion and science are compatible. . . .
  25. Friday miscellany
  26. Pseudoscience– banned in Britain
  27. Ohio teacher faces firing for teaching creationism
  28. Prize-winning wildlife photo STAGED
  29. Anthony Lane reviews Creation
  30. Darwin’s Dilemma: I watched it so you don’t have to.
  31. Biblical gunsights for our troops
  32. Geert Wilders goes on trial
  33. Why did God destroy Haiti?
  34. Panda genome revealed
  35. Russell Blackford on Robert Wright’s The Evolution of God
  36. One religion I can get behind
  37. Lying for Darwin: science/faith compatibility again
  38. Monday ex-Felid: Casper the commuting cat
  39. You smell like a chimp… and a marmoset
  40. Back from the islands
  41. Daniel Dennett on media bias and religion
  42. Convergent toxins
  43. An iguana appetizer
  44. More on coincidence – or, did space aliens build Woolworths?
  45. Caturday Felids – wild tiger cubs in Sumatra
  46. New evidence for the divine: a plastic pterosaur
  47. How many pterosaurs do you need to draw a straight line?
  48. A website Jerry might like
  49. Everything you wanted to know about pterosaurs
  50. Signature in the Cell: Meyer responds in the TLS
  51. Odd pollinators
  52. “In Praise of Darwin”
  53. In the Galápagos
  54. Man overboard!
  55. Caturday felids: cute overdose
  56. A scientific Caturday felid: how it got its coat
  57. Hitchens on blaming the victim
  58. The tracks of a ghost
  59. Francisco Ayala on “Signature in the Cell”
  60. Russell Blackford on blaming the victim
  61. Convergent mutations produce convergent colors
  62. New species: the “strawberry crab”
  63. I get mail
  64. The Jews were right all along
  65. Harris vs. Armstrong
  66. Galápagos bound
  67. Contest!
  68. Russell Blackford: why atheists must speak up
  69. We have a winner!
  70. The Guardian hits rock bottom
  71. Sympathy for the devil: a parasitic cancer
  72. Looniest regulation of 2009
  73. A new year’s wish
  74. Best kittehs of 2009
  75. Illinois gubernatorial candidates on evolution
  76. Starting now: no insulting religion in Ireland

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