Monday 2 March 2009

The Evidence For Evolution Is Overwhelming .. (apparently some people didn't know)

Sam Harris' compelling talk about 'reason', and on the dangers of religious moderation http://xrl.in/10qp Hard Evidence That We Are Descended From Apes
Dr. Ken Miller (a Roman Catholic) talking about the relationship between Homo sapiens and the 'other' primates. He discusses a recent finding of the Human Genome Project which identifies the exact point of fusion of two primate chromosomes that resulted in human chromosome #2
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10312686670#/video/video.php?v=97505140720&oid=10312686670
Richard Dawkins' Genius of Charles Darwin
Written and presented by evolutionary biologist and ethologist Richard Dawkins (previous holder of the Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford) : http://xrl.in/10qj (streaming video)
One of his most entertaining Question & Answer sessions (in god country) :
http://xrl.in/10qt
One of the better interviews with Dawkins, on TVOntario : http://xrl.in/10qo
n593485720_4838723_4516 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_evolution_fossils n593485720_4423008_3067 The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason --- Benjamin Franklin n593485720_2323168_164 With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. --- Steven Weinberg n593485720_2406272_2264 Every religion is right about one thing. And that is that all the others are completely wrong. --- Prof. Ronald de Sousa n593485720_5584637_8374