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ORIGINS: UNIVERSE, LIFE, HUMANKIND, AND DARWIN

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We debate origins of the Universe, life, Earth, humans, religion, atheism, using common sense, evolution, cosmology, geology, archaeology, and other sciences, to repel biblical creationism and other religious beliefs.

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The portrait is Charles Darwin, age 31, in 1840

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Atheist Sees Image of the Creation of the World in a Piece of Burnt Toast

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Younger Dryas was caused by impact

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Science’s Brilliant Blunders: How Oops Moments Became Eurekas

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Cox, Brian + In Search of Giants (in 15 parts) by Joan Denoo

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Part Human Part Ape Possible Ancester Analized

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Male upper body strength, evolution, & politics

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Scientists Say Minoans Were European

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Are We Getting Dumber? The Incredible Shrinking Brain (Discover, Sep. 2010)

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Was Darwin Wrong About Coral Atolls?

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Big Fish Eat Little Fish, 1557, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

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Protein Reverses Heart Failure in Mice

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Jokes to offend Christians (particularly at Christmas)

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Scientists Determine 23 Words that Existed 15,000 Years Ago

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SCIENCE FINDS GOD!

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Wonders of Life

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The God Delusion (5/5) - Richard Dawkins

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Racism in the modern world

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Dan Barker Shares His Journey from Evangelical Preacher to Leading Atheist

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Duality of Being

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Wonders of Life

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Comment by Paula T. on April 10, 2012 at 9:11pm: Awesome, Sarah! Thank you for posting the Daily Lit link!

In response to chris' question - who said we are going to stop evolving? I don't know of any end-product that we are working toward as a species.

Comment by Sarah Walton on April 10, 2012 at 6:15pm: I read On the Origin of Species through email via a free Daily Lit subscription.

Comment by Richard ∑wald on April 10, 2012 at 3:45pm: Maybe it's Ron Paul in disguise?

I second "The Ancestor's Tale", and "On the Origin of Species"; as two "must reads".

Comment by The Flying Atheist on April 10, 2012 at 1:30pm: The unusually warm March/April weather seems to have thawed out and exposed a rash of the crazies here on AtheistNexus lately.

Comment by The Flying Atheist on April 10, 2012 at 12:39pm: Chantal, I found great pleasure from reading Dawkins' "The Ancestor's Tale." It's a mammoth book relating the story of human evolution by starting at our current point and proceeding backward in time through our common ancestors all the way back to the Big Bang. It's quite a journey!

Comment by Marc Draco on April 10, 2012 at 12:02pm: Origin of Species is a must read - if only for the pleasure of understanding Darwin's foresight. Stephen J. Gould is another author worthy of study. Much as I admire and like Dawkins, he has become a stick to hit the idiots with - and that makes quoting him a potentially dangerous game.

Comment by Chantal Wallace on April 10, 2012 at 11:42am: What are you guys' favorite bio/evo books? I just bought The Greatest Show on Earth by the wonderful Mr. Dawkins, and I have my bio textbook for school, but can y'll recommend a few more? I'd greatly appreciate it! :)

Comment by Sarah Walton on April 10, 2012 at 11:20am: So can we start talking about evolutionary science again? And I mean biology, not the wacked out way social scientists have adopted evolution.

Comment by Marc Draco on April 10, 2012 at 8:14am: Google suggests that this is a legitimate name, guys. Remember that correlation != causation in every instance; we're mostly scientists here and that's a basic tenet.

Comment by Joseph P on April 10, 2012 at 6:31am: Heh. Interesting observation on his name. I missed that.

Very well could be a theist raiding the site, yeah. We get them from time to time.