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Axial tilt and evolution

04 August 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Science
What role does Earth's axial tilt play in the ongoing evolution of life on this planet? That question has intrigued me ever since the Japanese earthquake, this spring. I read that the quake had shifted our planet on its axis by 25cm - a minute amount on the planetary scale - but one that could have, as one story noted, "profound, if...

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Tags: evolution, biology, paleontology, science 4 Comments


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Creationist victory a sad day for American education

22 April 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Science, Pointless legislation, Social values
It's pretty easy to make fun of American education these days. There are viral videos on YouTube that paint a bleak, even frightening, picture of the average American unable to locate Iraq on a world map, unable to identify the name of a country beginning with the letter "U", the religion of Buddhist monks, and so on. Rick Mercer did...

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Tags: America, creationism, evolution, science 3 Comments


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Darwin and the Barnacle compared with Creation

18 October 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Science, Book & film reviews, Uncategorized
Earlier this year, we got a DVD copy of Creation, the film about Charles Darwin and his family life as he struggled to come to grips with his ideas about evolution. It's a touching, emotional film about the man inexorably linked with the theory of evolution (played brilliantly by Paul Bettany) as he wrestled with competing issues of faith and...

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Tags: Darwin, Creation, barnacle, evolution 0 Comments


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The lime tree puzzle

15 August 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Personal reminisence, Science, Social values
When I crush a leaf from my lime tree, it smells deliciously of lime, like its fruits do. And its fruits, when it graces us with them, are richly aromatic and unmistakably lime-scented. When you cut into one, you can smell it across the room, and the scent from the oils will linger for hours on your fingers.

Yet today, with it in full bloom in...

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Tags: botany, lime, science, evolution, Citrus aurantifolia 0 Comments


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Darwin's sesquicentennial

12 October 2009
Posted by Ian Chadwick
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Tags: science, biology, paleontology, origin of species, Darwin, evolution 4 Comments


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