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| Url: | http://www.pandasthumb.org |
| Author(s): | Nicholas J. Matzke |
| Language: | English |
| Tags: | evolution, creationism, Darwin |
| Description: | “The Panda’s Thumb” is many things… First, it is an example of jury-rigged evolutionary adaptation made famous by the late Stephen Jay Gould in an essay of the same name. Second, it is the legendary virtual bar serving the community of the legendary virtual University of Ediacara somewhere in the Ediacaran hills of southern Australia, growing out of the lore of the Usenet talk.origins newsgroup. And now it is a weblog giving another voice for the defenders of the integrity of science, the patrons of “The Panda’s Thumb”. Much as in any tavern serving a university community, you can expect to hear a variety of levels of discussion, ranging from the picayune to the pedantic. The authors are people associated with the virtual University of Ediacara (and thus the talk.origins newsgroup), and various web sites critical of the antievolution movement, such as the TalkOrigins Archive, TalkDesign, and Antievolution.org. So, here’s a virtual pub crawl that you might actually learn something from. We hope you find your time spent here pleasant and rewarding. |
| Ratings |  (14 Ratings) |
| Popularity: | 48 Followers |
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Telling apes from humans
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Creationists are always very definite that there are absolutely, absolutely no transitional fossils between apes and humans. For example, according to a 1990 article by Answers In Genesis (AIG)Whe...more |
2009-12-29
BioLogos' Falk on Disco's Meyer
| Darrel Falk is co-president of the BioLogos Foundation and a biology professor at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego. He offers a calm review of Signature in the Cell by Stephen Meyer, Di...more |
2009-12-28
Crepuscular rays
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Photograph by Vivian K. Dullien. Crepuscular rays in ground blizzard, Boulder, Colorado. Photograph copyright © 2009 by Vivian K. Dullien. |
2009-12-28
Ornithogalum umbellatum
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Ornithogalum umbellatum – Star of Bethlehem flower. Flower courtesy of Sturtz and Copeland Florists and Garden Center, Boulder, Colorado. |
2009-12-25
Baraminologists deny 'hoax' charges, threaten legal action
| Apparently the charge made on Panda’s Thumb that the Institute for Noachian Studies Fellows Dr. Orbin S. Thicke and Rev. Bob-Bob Lee’s ground-breaking approach to determining the taxonomic level of...more |
2009-12-24
α-actinin evolution in humans
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Perhaps your idea of the traditional holiday week involves lounging about with a full belly watching football — not me, though. I think if I did, I’d be eyeing those muscular fellows with tho...more |
2009-12-23
(Creation) science marches on!
| Dr. Boli’s Celebrated Magazine has been in my reader for some time, and his advertisements, news articles, and answers to questions are both amusing and often satirically pointed. Today he notes a...more |
2009-12-21
Slab avalanche
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Slab avalanche – showing starting zone, track, and runout. This avalanche was only a meter or 2 high and occurred in what appeared to be a reservoir for snow-making at Eldora Mountain Resort...more |
2009-12-21
Creationism at Italian Science Agency
| That’s the headline of a short blurb in yesterday’s issue of Science. According to Science, the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy helped to fund and promote a creationist book that was edite...more |
2009-12-19
Ben Goldacre reviews the year ...
| … in bad science in the UK. Surely the U.S., the country with Senator Jim “climate change is a hoax” Inhofe, the anti-vaccination movement, and, of course, the ever-popular Center for the Renewal ...more |
2009-12-18
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