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
Evolution PZ is a God Botherer 12 Oct 2009 Now I just knew PZ Myers was an accommodationist. But I didn’t know he went this far… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Clm6nlWxzc&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] [From Taking bad acting to new troughs [Pharyngula]] Read More
Biology Evopsychopathy 5: Conclusion 2 Jan 20133 Jan 2013 The criticisms of evolutionary psychology and its predecessors sociobiologies 1 through 3 focus on three major points: 1. It is adaptively-biased; 2. It is gene-centric (or biological determinist, which amounts to the same thing); 3. It is culturally biased in favour of the privileged classes of the people making the… Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity Apes and evolution in the news 19 Jun 20094 Oct 2017 So there are a couple of interesting developments about fossil apes. One is the retraction by the author of the claim 14 years ago to have found a jaw bone that was evidence of Homo habilis, a precursor species (arguably) of H erectus, in a recent Nature. Previously he and… 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.