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# evolution
# evolution
Rehashing the same old talking points while framing them as questions does not make them better or more correct.
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Christina fundamentalists may want to ban evolution from schools, but Muslim fundamentalists want to kill anyone who teaches it.
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Argument from a persecution complex is not a persuasive way to defend creationism. Or anything, for that matter...
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The man who spent his career dismissing evolution as a faith which scientists were bullied into following is now being threatened by his bosses for disagreeing with young Earth creationism.
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Far too many commentators are way too eager to explain to scientists and science writers why creationism is still a thing. It would be nice if their explanations were actually rooted in the real world.
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Contrary to what you may have heard, humans are still very much evolving and natural selection plays a huge role in two recently discovered helpful mutations.
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The only argument creationists have against speciation is deploying arbitrary taxonomical semantics.
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A study of how proteins are encoded and translated across a dozen species shows that life on Earth had only one population of universal common ancestors.
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Both brains and microchips try to find the most efficient way to conduct electrical signals. And that has a profound effect on how brains grow and evolve.
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Deepak Chopra's fluffy quantum creationist woo has a new imitator and he's ready to disappoint readers with a buzzword salad of an essay.