Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

I was interested by this story which says that humans are not only still evolving, but are evolving faster now than ever before. Its counter-intuitive which makes it all the more attention-grabbing.

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Since I have been feeling in a bit of an iconoclastic mood lately I thought I would have a small pop at Richard Attnborough.
A new series of Planet Earth started this week and as you would expect it is compelling viewing and a remarkable acheivement: a nearly perfect collision of the wonder and majesty of […]

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Wednesday morning I was woken by torrential rain. Having no clock or watch in the sleeping part of the tent I got up and Jayne and I sat outside under the gazebo and had a coffee, wondering if it would ever stop raining. Then we dug out a watch and found out that it was […]

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I caught the end of Horizon tonight. It was all about the Dover school board case where concerned parents fought to keep intelligent design off the syllabus.
I had only been watching for a few minutes when Richard Dawkins popped up doing his irate atheist bit, and it occurred to me that he could be doing […]

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Last night’s Channel 4 programme on religion was interesting enough, if a bit predictable for anyone who has even a passing familiarity with Richard Dawkins’ work.
I have to say that I found some of the fundamentalists a bit scary. The American evangelist (Haggart?) seemed especially unnerving, the way he invaded Dawkins’ personal space, stared him […]

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Last week’s Guardian had an article by Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne refuting any suggestion that ‘Intelligent Design’ deserves to be taught in schools alongside Darwinian evolution.
It was obviously a heart-felt piece, but while I totally agree with the thrust of the argument I have to say that I found a […]

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I really do need to thank Tom Hamilton for this post which contains a link to this essay by Stephen Jay Gould
I know its a bit of a nerdish thing to admit, but I’ve been a fan of Gould’s for a long time, and half a dozen of his collections of essays […]

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