Archive for the 'Science' Category
Sunday, March 16th, 2008
YouTuber AronRa is working on a fact-packed series called The Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism that I strongly recommend. My only nitpick is that he crams so much into each 10-minute segment that I found myself repeatedly pausing the video to examine his visuals. AronRa has indicated that he intends this series to eventually have 13 [...]
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
YouTuber Thunderf00t has an excellent series running in 18 24 parts (so far) entitled Why Do People Laugh at Creationists? And for all the times I’ve laughed in the past as I’ve followed the “controversy,” this series brought back many of those guffaws in one swift rush, and added several new ones.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
YouTuber potholer54 published an excellent “made easy” series of videos that deals with what science knows about the universe and our place in it. This series is highly condensed and quite watchable, and I strongly recommend it. The first two parts are embedded below and followed by links to the rest of the series.
Chapter 1: [...]
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
The Story of Stuff is a must-watch. Yes, even more important than the skateboarding dog.
Related post: What Would Jesus Buy?
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Edge.org has published their “World Question” for 2008:
What have you changed your mind about? Why?
…and of course, answers from over 100 leading scientists and intellectuals.
As always, stimulating reading from a great group of thinkers.
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
This special two-hour episode of the PBS series NOVA takes on the 2005 Intelligent Design trial Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, revealing the human drama and hard science that went into the precedent-setting trial. You can watch it in 10-minute YouTube bites below, or in nice neat QuickTime chapters at the episode’s official web [...]
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Friday, July 27th, 2007
Sometimes I wish I could have gotten through those 10 years in 3 minutes. This is worth watching twice, once just for him and once just for her.
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Monday, June 11th, 2007
These guys toured the Creation Museum so you don’t have to. As the photo below attests, visitors are advised to check their brain at the door.
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Sunday, May 20th, 2007
Even though the Evolution vs. Intelligent Design debate has cooled off a little since the Kitzmiller decision, there are more people than ever who now rally around the Intelligent Design banner. So I’m glad the more rationally-minded among us are still at it with pieces like the 2006 documentary Flock of Dodos, which contains the [...]
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Friday, March 16th, 2007
Did ancient astronauts provide man with levitation technology used to create the Egyptian pyramids, or Stonehenge? I have heard these breathless hypotheses since I was a kid, particularly in popular television and motion picture documentaries such as Chariots of the Gods, and at that age they certainly caught my imagination. And it is true that [...]
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