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Check this disgraceful bill out: http://www.paaia.org/galleries/default-file/step_act.pdf
It calls for banning all people from even entering the US from "State Sponsors of Terrorism". This also includes Iranians who wish to escape their flawed government (about to fall), only to be denied...
Footprints of a possible early tetrapod dating back 397 million years ago have been found in southeast Poland.
Articles relating to this find:
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8443879.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/06/fossil-footprints-land-animal
Forget COP15, we might have these in the future:
http://www.thebreakthrough.org/blog/2008/07/why_cant_we_just_suck.shtml
Despite the possible expenses of this new technology, we can only cross our fingers and hope for a secure future, for as long as the planet permits.
This is a humanitarian crisis right here. Uganda plans on passing a law that punishes all homosexuals with life in prison, or worse, death. But it dosen't stop there. People who don't report homosexuals within 24 hours are fined or imprisoned. And from what I hear from NPR, those who speak out...
I'll wager everybody here knows that the word "Darwinism" was a term invented by creationists to argue against evolution. But recently I've been hearing people who accept evolution use the term Darwinism when describing the theory of evolution.
Honestly, people who say "Darwinism" when they...
It is possible to bring non-avian dinosaurs back to life, but not through retrieving half-digested DNA from the stomach of an amber-trapped mosquito, but through reducing the proteins that disallow the growth of a long tail, a toothy jaw, and clawed hands in dinosaurs we already have...
What do you think is the best way to get all humans on this planet to work together and unite into a single planet, and then have a better ability to accomplish great feats, such as colonizing the Solar System and beyond?
Well, I think organizations like the European Union are a great start...
Don't you guys think it is a little flawed to say that you "believe" in evolution when you say that you acknowledge and accept it as a biological fact? I do, at least.
For one, by saying that you "believe" in evolution, you are implying that it is nothing but a non-testable guess, the very...
Here's a fun thought exercise we could all do.
Let's show them creationists who believe their god was drunk enough to create something as flawed as the anatomy of life on this planet, by showing them what an intelligently-designed human would actually look like!
For one, I think the...
I received an argument from somebody on a forum I go to, while agreeing to my points by noting that some people used their faith to justify their evils, he questions whether it was religions fault.
My short rebuttal to that is that people just blindly follow old books that have been edited...
Has anyone here read this yet? http://www.nemoramjet.com/alltomorrows.pdf ?
If not, then I strongly recommend that you do. It is an unpublished book about various human descendants millions of years into the future. I cannot spoil the story for you though, read it yourself, it it awesome!
I love making artwork in Flash. Among the things I draw are prehistoric animals and other creatures in worlds we don't live in. First I'll show my illustrations of Cambrian chordates.
Haikouichthys
Myllokunmingia
Metaspriggina
Pikaia
Greetings. I am Giant Blue Anteater, the smartest of the order Pilosa, among the ranks of you primates. I like animals, paleontology, extraterrestrial life, evolution, et cetera. I absolutely detest creationism, homophobia, religious fundamentalism, and any other form of stupidity. I do not...