The Eye Has It

The journal Evolution: Education and Outreach has posted, online, free, an entire issue on the evolution of the eye.  The eye is one of those sticking points in the ongoing debate with antievolutionists.  Its complexity, its improbability, its seeming miraculous advent seems to point directly to interventionist manifestation. Admittedly, it…

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Scivee: for those who want to view science videos

I just finished watching a video on how to dissect a human corpse in order to learn about skin, cutaneous nerves and lymph nodes (warning to the squeamish:  There's no sugar-coating here--it's a highly graphic lesson on how to do a human dissection).   I thought to myself:  "This is incredible. …

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Labels, Living, Categories, Culture

Here is a link to an excellent essay by two of my best friends.  It talks about how labeling plays out in both art and real life and how labels are both irrelevant and destructive. I attended that workshop they refer to, Clarion, and that's where I met them.  That…

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