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The thing about creationists is that they are nothing if not predictable. What's the betting that, if someone hasn't already done...

It's always fun, if you have nothing better to do, than to go to a creationists site and play spot the fallacies. For example, this stu...

A group-specific arbitrary tradition in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) - Online First - Springer Ever since Richard Dawkins coined the term...

You can say one thing about The Intelligent Designer - it doesn't let liberal sentimentality, compassion or morality get in the way of a...

Antibiotic resistance focus of UK’s Longitude Prize : Nature News Blog Great news that, by popular vote, the £10 million ($17 million) Lon...

Theists have a problem with souls. The problem is that they were invented in ignorant times when people knew nothing of the microscopic st...

Stone Age worm egg hints at origins of modern scourge - health - 20 June 2014 - New Scientist News that the earliest known evidence of the...

A creationists 'explains' two sorts of evolution. Note the lie that evolutionary biologists claim trilobites were our ancestors ...

Defining British Identity | British Social Attitudes Survey 31 Taxpayers' cash should not be used to fund faith schools, say voters | ...

What would it take to convince a creationist that Earth is not just a few thousand years old? To be frank, the answer to that is probably ...

Massive 'ocean' discovered towards Earth's core - environment - 12 June 2014 - New Scientist News this week that geologists le...

It's sometimes fun to read through the Bible and work out which of the tales in it is the least plausible, the most pointle...

Figures compiled and published in British Social Attitudes 30 (2013 Edition) make grim reading for mainstream religions in Britain. Self-i...

Provisional figures for 2012 released by the UK Government Office of National Statistics (ONS) today show that the number of marriages in E...

Students Build the First Eukaryotic Chromosome from Scratch - Scientific American Interesting news recently in Scientific American . Stude...

"Science can't explain love! (And because science can't explain love, it can't explain anything. And because love exists, t...

King Cobra ( Ophiophagus hannah ) You know, sometimes, challenging creationist loons and putting up facts for them to either explain away...

A mammoth victory in South Carolina? Regular readers will remember me reporting on the campaign by creationist loons in South Carolina to...

Chimpanzee choice rates in competitive games match equilibrium game theory predictions : Scientific Reports : Nature Publishing Group It m...

How Did the Moon Really Form? The great thing about science is that, unlike religions, it has real, hard evidence. In fact, it's all a...

Teleogryllus oceanicus Rapid Convergent Evolution in Wild Crickets, Study - News of the World Male crickets chirp. They do it to attrac...

Flooded cave hides Naia, a 13,000-year-old American - life - 15 May 2014 - New Scientist As Francis Collins, himself a Christian, observed...

A couple of interesting articles in the science literature this week showing how science works and why it ultimately corrects it errors, whe...

The fossil bird with its revealing stomach contents (insert) Credit: © Senckenberg Eocene fossil is earliest evidence of flower-visiting...

Nosil Lab of Evolutionary Biology, University of Sheffield, UK Is Evolution Predictable? | Science/AAAS | News Here's one of those ...