Exploring the Infinite
Conway’s Game of Life “…one of the most fascinating aspects of The Game of Life is how it produces repeating patterns and patterns that move across the plane (referred to as gliders and spaceships). But with modern-day computers, we can process these steps effortlessly and see them before us near-instantaneously! As if that wasn’t mind-blowing enough, how about wrapping your
I may have mentioned before that I used to be a devoutly religious Creationist. I earnestly believed that evolution was a trick Satan used to lead people away from Christ just as I was taught from an early age. I was so convinced that I refused to participate in any conversation that might attempt to change my mind, often resorting
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Fractal exploration = a hands-on lesson in evolution
“What if God wasn’t a god at all. What if all they could do for us was give us the chance of life and the rest was down to us? You don’t deny your parents just because they couldn’t give you everything do you? If someone saved you from drowning, effectively giving you life, would you thank them or ask
From the page: “More than half of adult Americans report they have had a spiritual experience that changed their lives. Now, scientists from universities like Harvard, Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins are using new technologies to analyze the brains of people who claim they have touched the spiritual — from Christians who speak in tongues to Buddhist monks to people who
“Using a process called paleo-experimental evolution, Georgia Tech researchers have resurrected a 500-million-year-old gene from bacteria and inserted it into modern-day Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria. This bacterium has now been growing for more than 1,000 generations, giving the scientists a front row seat to observe evolution in action.” via The Daily Galaxy You may already know how I feel
Blood Falls From the page: Roughly two million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath it a small body of water which contained an ancient community of microbes. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, they have remained there ever since, isolated inside a natural time capsule. Evolving independently of the rest of the living world, these microbes exist in
http://www.creationmuseum.org/ And then people wonder why American’s are so ignorant. GIVE US A SCIENCE MUSEUM! Our kids deserve better than to have this pseudo-science taught to them. So fed up with the lengths the religious zealots will go to in order to defend and propagate their lies. To call this place a museum is not only a joke but an
Morality: Created By Evolution or Religion? video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Morality is not something we get from religion. It’s something we’ve evolved to prolong our survival. I really wish more stories would be published on the subject. If the threat of damnation or the bribe of eternal life is required for you to do the right thing, I dare
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40445249/ns/us_news-life/ When people take their kid’s to Disney World, the fairy tales are presented as fictional fairy tales. When people take their kids to Creationist attractions, the fairy tales are presented as fact. Where’s Northern Kentucky’s Science Museum? Evidently, 900 jobs and millions of visitors are more important than teaching our children about the 40+ valid radiometric dating methods scientists
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/education/20teacher.html From the page: “After an investigation, school officials notified Mr. Freshwater in June 2008 of their intent to fire him, but he asked for a pre-termination hearing, which has lasted more than a year and cost the school board more than a half-million dollars. … Last June, he filed a federal lawsuit against the school board seeking $1 million
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6173399/Charles-Darwin-film-too-controversial-for-religious-America.html Because Christian America doesn’t know how to intelligently defend it’s mythology, the obvious alternative is to censure.
http://antispore.com/about/ Hahah, knew it had to happen eventually, Christians against Spore.