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The facts of evolution: fighting the Endarkenment

By Gerald Weissmann, Editor-in-Chief
May 18, 2009

Print: The FASEB Journal

This brief commentary on evolution nicely summarizes the basic premises of evolution- the basic facts of evolution.  Despite little controversy within the scientific community, society at large in the US remains relatively ignorant to the main facts of evolution.

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Tree of Life

Welcome trust
May 18, 2009

Video: BBC

Explore the evolutionary links between living things.

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Narrated by Sir David Attenborough.

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How to respond to requests to debate creationists

Nicholas Gotelli by way of P Z Myers
April 26, 2009

Print: Pharyngula

A professor at the University of Vermont, Nicholas Gotelli, got an invitation to debate one of the clowns at the Discovery Institute. Here’s what they wrote.

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Darrow vs. Bryan

H. L. Mencken
April 24, 2009

Print: Positive Atheism

Aftermath

H. L. Mencken
April 24, 2009

Print: Positive Atheism

Bryan

H. L. Mencken
April 24, 2009

Print: Positive Atheism

Tennessee in the Frying Pan

H. L. Mencken
April 24, 2009

Print: Positive Atheism

Genesis Triumphant

H. L. Mencken
April 24, 2009

Print: Positive Atheism

Malone the Victor

H. L. Mencken
April 24, 2009

Print: Positive Atheism

Fair Trial Beyond Ken of Tennessee Fundamentalists

H. L. Mencken
April 24, 2009

Print: Positive Atheism

Law and Freedom

H. L. Mencken
April 24, 2009

Print: Positive Atheism

Darrow’s Eloquent Appeal

H. L. Mencken
April 24, 2009

Print: Positive Atheism

Souls Need Reconversion Nightly

H. L. Mencken
April 24, 2009

Print: Positive Atheism

Trial as Religious Orgy

H. L. Mencken
April 24, 2009

Print: Positive Atheism

Impossibility of Obtaining Fair Jury Insures Scopes’ Conviction, Says Mencken

H.L. Mencken
April 24, 2009

Print: Positive Atheism

Homo Neanderthalensis

H. L. Mencken
April 24, 2009

Print: Positive Atheism

The Information Challenge

Richard Dawkins
April 24, 2009

Print: Australian Skeptics

Response to video where he appears to be stumped by a creationist’s question