Here's a weird study; a pair of academics analyzed some of the more famous paintings of the Last Supper over the past thousand years, and found the food portions depicted in the paintings seemed to have grown by 69.2%. So rather than the anemic portions that were common before a serious revolution in the way we produce food, today's paintings offer a larger variety and abundance of food stuffs. It just goes ...

I regularly read "The Guardian". They normally have a pretty decent science coverage, but the latest article entitled "Why everything you know about evolution is wrong" outraged me enough I felt the need to talk about it. The article starts simply enough, referring to the burgeoning science of epigenetics, and how some researchers are finding genes that become expressed due to environmental factors can effe ...

Here's another study that homophobic bigots can casually ignore; Two evolutionary psychologists (yes, these guys are making the news a lot recently) have offered a unique explanation as to the evolutionary value of homosexuality. You see, since gays tend to not breed, the basic question of "why would homosexuality persist if the genes for it would be selected out" hasn't yet been answered definitively. I'm ...

I took a few days off in light of my recent birthday, and while I was away, I received a ton of email concerning a study done by evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa that linked IQ with atheism, liberalism, and monogamy. I figured I should probably talk about it a bit. Kanazawa believes the reason this is true is human beings are designed by natural selection to be more conservative (and therefore mor ...

When you think about the sexual revolution of the 60's, what is the first thing that comes to mind? I usually picture a bunch of hippy chicks burning their bras and having crazy orgies, but only because I watch way too much old school porn. Of course, not everyone associates the sexual liberation with the wonderful "imagery" of peace and love. Take Bishop Walter Mixa for example; he recently stated the abus ...

Score one for the abstinence movement: a study, published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, found abstinence only teaching helped delay the age teens are having sex by as much as two years. Now, before you start cursing at the fact that the religious right is going to use this study to keep funding their veiled religious sexual education program, it's important to note even the people ...

Yes, I'm aware her YouTube name is actually ZOMGitsCriss, but that doesn't mean I have to like it (also, the intro song is actually a little bit terrible, but in a cute way). Here is her latest video explaining why evolution is true. She provides extensive examples of transitional fossils for doubters who apparently can't be bothered to do research themselves (presumably out of fear of being proved wrong). ...

Here's a great summary of the differences between micro-evolution and macro-evolution, and why creationists like to confuse people by suggesting one exists and the other does not. It's pretty obvious to anyone with half a brain that if micro-evolution is true, over a long period of time, small changes in the genome would accumulate to eventually lead to an entirely new species. It's only hard for them to be ...

It amazes me at just how arrogant creationists are in light of the fact they believe quite literally in a fairy tale explanation as to the origin of species. Here they parody the "Mac vs PC" commercials in an attempt to be both funny and relevant. It's neither. Hey morons, if you want to try and "debate" evolution, maybe it's time you did a little bit of research in the following fields: biology, genetics, ...

You know what I love about atheism? We don't confer words with special powers. This gives us an advantage; you won't see angry atheists taking to the streets because the word "evolution" is being misused (even though we might get tempted when jackasses like Kirk Cameron spew their anti-evolutionary nonsense around), and when's the last time an atheist firebombed a building to punish the sacrilegious use of ...