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• Expanding the Moral Imagination

  
  Everybody Means Something — Authority: 410
  Any religion whose prerequisites for individual salvation don’t conduce to the salvation of the whole world is a religion whose time has passed. ( Robert Wright : The Evolution of God page 439) I am getting towards the end of Robert Wright’s fascinating book  – I’ve been fitting the reading of it into ...
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• What Does it Mean to Say "Well Adapt" to Big Cities and to Little Nature?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  A reader posted the following response to an earlier discussion of mine [click here ]. He said, "We cant turn back time, we need to adapt." But adaptation is many things. Sometimes when we adapt its good for us - biologically and psychologically. And sometimes its bad for us. Id like to discuss different types ...
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• Weaknesses in Darwin

  
  Alternative Shopping Infos — Authority: 131
  A constantly commented on problem in Darwin’s theories is the idea that he established his theory, chiefly, on his observations of variation in domesticated animals and cultured plants. I have tried to secure a solid basis for evolution theory in the variations of organisms in a state of nature. Given that the exact ...
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• There you have it: #14

  
  The Unsinkable brian cork — Authority: 125
  “I’ve never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.” - Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward. Widely believed to be a cousin of former Miss Kentucky Betty “pickles” Merlotte , and a worthy suitor for Heather Whitestone , 1995’s Miss USA. There’s a good many (fairly ...
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• God does not like human death

  
  Sun and Shield — Authority: 119
  The Bible makes it pretty clear that God is not pleased by death. As Ezekiel 18:23 puts it: Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord God , and not rather that he should turn from his way and live? (All scripture quotations from the ESV. See here for copyright policy.) See also ...
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• The Wages of Peace

  
  O'Ceallaigh & The Quill — Authority: 126
  As Quilly has already pointed out, there’s currently (5 November 2009) a “blogblast for peace” going on. A relict from the days when Baby Boomers were young, and everything could be solved by carrying picket signs and burning scrap paper draft cards. Quilly’s take is that peace among humans is ...
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• We Get Letters: Confidence in Men

  
  Kids Prefer Cheese — Authority: 585
  I have this friend, a young woman who graduated from Duke years ago, and now works in a large city in the Northeast. She sometimes tells me of her dating disasters, laughing ruefully at the latest apocalypse. Here is a g-chat exchange we had, some months ago: A: Im afraid I go for the arrogant type like that awful ...
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• There you have it: #13

  
  The Unsinkable brian cork — Authority: 125
  On September 17, 1994, Darwin’s theories were further tested when the “Yellow Hammer” State’s (Alabama) Heather Whitestone was selected Miss America for 1995. In order to make one of my points, here, I’ll submit the following: Judges question : “If you could live forever, would you and why?” ...
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• Is the Swine Flu really so bad?

  
  Morphine Nation — Authority: 136
  So we’ve all been hearing about the mass hysteria and so-called pandemic that is the swine flu, but do you know anyone that has actually had it? Now you do. Two weeks ago, I started feeling incredibly exhausted, feverish and just plain shitty. Those damn piggies got me! Thanks to that little fucking kid up ...
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• Natural Selection

  
  Stix Blog ver 4.0 — Authority: 156
  Chip in for my golf addiction Share and Enjoy: Related posts: Natural Selection Natural Selection Natural Selection
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• Creation Theory: Putting the Dinosaur to Rest

  
  The Dart Maker Blog — Authority: 125
  Leftovers of “Special Creation” theory or any altogether exceptional mode of earth’s creation is quite ludicrous! Creationism is given also to apply to the more evolved species as well as to the species of a genus, and not even Mr. Darwin’s strongest critics try to propose that the proterozoic bird, reptile, ...
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• The Implausibility of Creation Theory

  
  Your Online Pill Shop — Authority: 128
  The thought of a special creation or other wondrous manner of earth’s creation is impossible to establish! Creation theory is held also to apply to the higher species in addition to to the species of a genus, and even Mr. Darwin’s severest critics dare to indicate that the earlier bird, reptile, or fish must have ...
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• Backing Up Evolution

  
  Scepticon — Authority: 113
  I’ve said it before and no doubt I’ll say it again but we know science works because it makes predictions that we can then measure against the universe and determine if the models we have created to describe it are accurate or not. One of the more successful models is the theory of evolution by natural selection. ...
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• Dirt Devil Vacuum Cleaners Perfect for the Aging

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 576
  Dirt Devil Vacuum Cleaners Perfect for the AgingAre you looking for the perfect cleaning tool to make your life easier? Need power and reliability? Then what you need is a Dirt Devil Vacuum Cleaner. Covering a wide range of vacuum cleaners, the Dirt Devil vacuum cleaners, are an ideal choice for you. That is why; [...]
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• The Tangled Bank An Introduction to Evolution

  
  Skeptic.com — Authority: 119
  The topic of this lectured was changed to : H1N1 — The Evolution of a Deadly Virus What Diseases Tell Us About Evolution Carl Zimmer, an award-winning science writer for the New York Times , Discover magazine, Scientific American , and others takes readers on a frightening tour of the H1N1 flu virus, how it ...
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• Big Mike and the Paper Hanger

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 807
  We drown the weakling and the monstrosity. It is not passion, but reason, to separate the useless from the fit. -- Seneca (63 CE) Bananas have large, hard seeds. Lots of seeds, actually -- at least the undomesticated varieties still found in Southeast Asia are loaded with hard seeds. When the plant was originally ...
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• First Natural Selection 2 screens creep out

  
  That VideoGame Blog — Authority: 683
  In celebration of the original mod’s seventh anniversary, developer Unknown Worlds has whipped out the first two screenshots from Natural Selection 2 , the stand-alone follow-up to the highly praised FPS/RTS Half-Life mod. If you missed the teaser trailer back in May, do yourself a favor and catch up . ...
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• Natural Selection 2 Screenshots !

  
  The Banzai! Effect ( ??! ????? ) - Nexus of Japan's Anime, Lifestyle and Otaku Culture — Authority: 431
  Do we have any Natural Selection fans here ? I was a fan of this game last time that I even joined some gaming clan during my schooling days. It’s been 7 years since the release of NS v1.0 on Halloween. Now, the team has released 2 exclusive screenshots in-game with sheer awesomeness ! The first screenshot is from ...
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• The Making Of Natural Selection

  
  Rock, Paper, Shotgun — Authority: 667
  Seven years ago to this very day, uber-Half-Life mod Natural Selection was released. Man! Aliens! Man vs aliens, in a real-time-strategy-in-an-FPS-perspective kinda way! In that time, it’s become something of a landmark in terms of just how far you can stray from the source technology (pun not necessarily intended), ...
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• Interview: Unknown Worlds chats about first Natural Selection 2 screenshots

  
  Big Download Blog — Authority: 642
  Filed under: Features , FPS , RTS , Screenshots Developer Unknown Worlds has been working for some time on Natural Selection 2 , their upcoming sci-fi shooter with RTS elements. For those not familiar with the game the first version ( Natural Selection 1 ) began as a Half-Life 1 mod (it celebrates the ...
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