Willem van Hoorn, Geloof strijdt met wetenschap “Er is een onoverbrugbaar verschil tussen geloof en vrije wetenschapsbeoefening. Cees Dekker vermengt beide op ontoelaatbare wijze.” Bovenstaande naar aanleiding van Dekker, Stel grenzen aan het gesleutel aan de mens.
Entries Tagged as 'biology'
Geloof strijdt met wetenschap
November 16th, 2007
Tags: biology · cees dekker · religion · science · willem van hoorn
What percentage of your ancestors were men?
August 22nd, 2007
TierneyLab: “No, it’s not 50 percent, as I’ll explain shortly.” (via)
Biologists Helping Bookstores
July 30th, 2007
Biologists Helping Bookstores. Reshelving pseudo-scientific nonsense since 2007. “I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but some bookstores seem to have a little problem discerning science from non-science. I’m specifically talking about biology books vs. creationist books. Sometimes, you will find psuedo-scientific rubbish such as “intelligent design” books next to such authors as Darwin, Mayr, Gould, [...]
Evolution Occurs in the Blink of an Eye
July 16th, 2007
“A population of butterflies has evolved in a flash on a South Pacific island to fend off a deadly parasite. The proportion of male Blue Moon butterflies dropped to a precarious 1 percent as the parasite targeted males. Then, within the span of a mere 10 generations, the males evolved an immunity that allowed their [...]
Why Children Never Leave Home: Evolution
March 16th, 2007
Live Science: “The long childhoods and delayed maturity common in modern humans are traits that date back to at least the early members of our own species in Africa.”
Monkeys hug it out to avoid fights
February 21st, 2007
Nature: “Hugging diffuses the tension when two bands of monkeys meet, say the British researchers who made the discovery. Without these calming embraces, the situation can escalate into aggression and even physical attacks, they report.”
Tags: biology · science · spider monkey
Norway Reveals Doomsday Vault’s Design
February 9th, 2007
Live Science: “Designs for a doomsday vault for seeds of the world, to be carved deep into frozen rock on an island not far from the North Pole, were revealed today by the government of Norway.” Zie ook Wikipedia: Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
‘Hobbit’ human ‘is a new species’
January 30th, 2007
BBC: “The tiny skeletal remains of human “Hobbits” found on an Indonesian island belong to a completely new branch of our family tree, a study has found.”