INTELLIGENT DESIGN…or By Golly I BELIEVE This, and thus it should be taught as fact! By the way, HAPPY 200TH BIRTHDAY DARWIN!

Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 23:04 | Category : Evolution, People
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          I just saw a very instructive two hour program by NOVA.  It had to do with the recent events (2004) in a town in Dover, PA where a couple of individuals on the school board pushed through a requirement that Intelligent Design be taught in biology classrooms as a viable alternative to the modern theory of evolution.  They also required that [...]

Darwin and the Three Hundred Spartans

Friday, 16 March 2007, 15:41 | Category : Books, nature
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I just got back from seeing “300″ which as probably everybody knows is about the Spartan defense of Greece at Thermopylae. I am not sure if many people in the general population were aware of this battle and if they did, I’m not sure if they realized its significance. I was really looking forward to [...]