The new Darwin film 6 Sep 2009 From this review and several other things I have seen of it, The Creation looks to be a pretty sympathetic treatment of Darwin’s life and work. It’s a pity it’s based on a false premise: that Darwin was motivated by the death of his daughter Annie to become irreligious, or that Emma became religious because of it. Darwin’s religion had faded well before his daughter’s death, and he finally abandoned his Christianity well after it, and Emma was always a conservative and orthodox Christian. But Paul Bettany is my choice for playing Darwin as a young man. He’s absolutely perfect. Evolution History Pop culture
Biology Speciation – a brief history: Linnaeus 1 Apr 20145 Apr 2014 One of the fundamental aspects of evolution is speciation. This is the process by which more species come into being, and there are many different definitions and mechanisms that have been proposed by biologists in the last couple of centuries. I aim to write an occasional series on what it… Read More
Creationism and Intelligent Design Intelligent designoids are unsure about me 27 Jan 2011 Normally I wouldn’t link to these guys, but I’m having a kind of odd week with the ID crowd. On the one hand the ever reliable Casey Luskin has declared I am condescending for suggesting we teach science free of religious overtones to young children (but Kelly Smith is more… Read More
Ethics and Moral Philosophy Morality and evolution 2: Moral facts 1 May 201422 May 2014 [Morality and Evolution 1 2 3 4 5 6 7] In a forthcoming paper, “Evolution and Moral Realism”, Kim Sterelny and Ben Fraser, of the Australian National University, have argued that there can be moral facts that evolution by selection tracks. Their argument is that moral reasoning is complex, and relies upon rapid judgements (what Daniel… Read More
Is it coming to Australia, do you know? And is there some way of getting rid of the “Automatically Generated” video trailer for a creationist film on Darwin that emerges just under your post? Maybe there is not, but it is irritating to see rubbish being advertised here.
I haven’t heard, but I would think so. As to the other, I cannot block ads without an outlay. Let me look into it. I don’t see them because I have an ad blocker in my browser. Late note: Okay, I paid the money to block ads for one year. Let me know if they still appear.