djarm67Lord Christopher Monckton is a British consultant, policy adviser, writer, columnist, and hereditary peer. While not formally trained in science, Monckton is one of the most cited and widely published climate skeptics, having even been invited to testify to the U.S. Senate and Congress on several occasions.
Monckton is listed as a "Chief Policy Advisor" for the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI). The SPPI was until recently managed under the name "Center for Science and Public Policy Institute" by another free market think-tank called the Frontiers of Freedom. Frontiers of Freedom has received over $1 million in funding from ExxonMobil and over $1 million from Koch Industries.
Monckton is listed as a "Global Warming expert" for the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based free market think-tank. The Heartland Institute frequently attacks the scientific evidence for human-caused climate change. The Heartland Institute has received over $791,000 from oil-giant ExxonMobil since 1998.
John P. Abrahams is an Associate Professor at the University of St Thomas. He has a Ph.D. 2002, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, M.S. 1999, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota and B.S. 1997, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota. John's career to date has involved incorporating experimental work in heat transfer and fluid mechanics with computational studies. He has worked on a wide variety of both academic and industrial projects.
John's bio
http://www.stthomas.edu/engineering/faculty/jpabraham.htm
John's list of publications
http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/jpabraham/
This presentation
http://www.stthomas.edu/engineering/jpabraham/
Thanks to Professor Abraham for not only making this presentation but allowing me to include this on my channel.
Abraham debunks Lord Monckton climate denialist 1of6djarm672011-08-20 | Lord Christopher Monckton is a British consultant, policy adviser, writer, columnist, and hereditary peer. While not formally trained in science, Monckton is one of the most cited and widely published climate skeptics, having even been invited to testify to the U.S. Senate and Congress on several occasions.
Monckton is listed as a "Chief Policy Advisor" for the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI). The SPPI was until recently managed under the name "Center for Science and Public Policy Institute" by another free market think-tank called the Frontiers of Freedom. Frontiers of Freedom has received over $1 million in funding from ExxonMobil and over $1 million from Koch Industries.
Monckton is listed as a "Global Warming expert" for the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based free market think-tank. The Heartland Institute frequently attacks the scientific evidence for human-caused climate change. The Heartland Institute has received over $791,000 from oil-giant ExxonMobil since 1998.
John P. Abrahams is an Associate Professor at the University of St Thomas. He has a Ph.D. 2002, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, M.S. 1999, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota and B.S. 1997, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota. John's career to date has involved incorporating experimental work in heat transfer and fluid mechanics with computational studies. He has worked on a wide variety of both academic and industrial projects.
John's bio
http://www.stthomas.edu/engineering/faculty/jpabraham.htm
John's list of publications
http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/jpabraham/
This presentation
http://www.stthomas.edu/engineering/jpabraham/
Thanks to Professor Abraham for not only making this presentation but allowing me to include this on my channel.
Please upload your tribute video and email a link to dprjonestribute@gmail.comCoronavirus: Science vs. politics (potholer54)djarm672020-04-01 | Please check out potholer54's video for any updated sources.
youtube.com/watch?v=t4yZaoA90JkEngaging with Religious Fundamentalismdjarm672015-09-25 | Should we engage with religious fundamentalists? Does it really matter? Can we really make an impact?
Brisbane Skepticamp discussion on engaging with religious fundamentalism.
Danny Jarman is the Vice President of the Atheist Foundation of Australia.
http://www.atheistfoundation.org.au
Brisbane Skepticamp is run by the Brisbane Skeptic Society.
http://brisskepticamp.org facebook.com/brisskepticampHigh Court Challenge to School Chaplains Please Assistdjarm672014-04-19 | The 2nd High Court Challenge to the validity of the funding model for the National Schools Chaplaincy Program is about to be heard.
Father of 6, Ronnie Williams, had the courage to challenge this transparent funding dispersal to religious groups in the High Court of Australia and won. The Federal Government then hastily passed legislation to continue the funding. This is now the subject of the 2nd High Court Challenge.
Please assist Ronnie Williams by donating to help meet the legal costs of this important and historic challenge. All amounts big or small will be extremely appreciated. If you can even spare $10 or $20, please do so. You will be contributing to an initiative of extreme importance.
Details on how to donate are provided at the link below.
Please share, like, comment and mirror this video.
Here is a message from Ronnie
"I am returning to the High Court of Australia on the 6th,7th and 8th of May 2014. A substantial amount to meet my legal costs and disbursements is yet to be raised. Any assistance between now and the handing-down of the Court's decision will be deeply appreciated. This movie is a whistle-stop tour of possibly the most outrageous political stunt ever foisted upon the taxpayers of Australia."Sam Harris : The End of Faithdjarm672013-12-20 | Sam Harris, the author of "The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason" advocates for conversational intolerance in the N.Y. Society for Ethical Culture, Nov. 2005Launch of Atheist Censusdjarm672012-12-07 | Please register. It only takes a minute.
Atheist Census and Atheist Alliance International thank Peter Caires for video production and Joel Kilgour, Mary Davis and Peter Caires for the voiceovers. The music, "In A Bind" is by Chloe Imogen Sinclair and Darren Sinclair. Chloe Imogen Sinclair is at Reverb Nation and on Facebook.
New York time lapse image from stockfootageforfree.com.
Atheist Census (www.atheistcensus.com) is a project to count and collect information on the world's atheists. Atheist Census is a project of Atheist Alliance International (www.atheistalliance.org).Eric Hovind pwnd by 6th Grade Atheistdjarm672012-11-22 | This is a video except from a Christian/atheist debate at Portland State University on 11-15-12. The Christian is Eric Hovind (young earth creationist), and atheist is Bernie Dehler (former evangelical Christian, and now secular humanist).
Original found here http://www.youtube.com/user/SecHummerThe Religio-Industrial Complexdjarm672012-08-09 | The author of Attack of the Theocrats: How the Religious Right Harms Us All & What We Can Do About It, http://richarddawkins.net/audio/645178-audiobook-of-attack-of-the-theocrats-with-richard-dawkins-reading-his-foreword-now-available describes how your tax money subsidizes fundamentalists then issues a call to action. See more videos of The Amaz!ing Meeting at youtube.com/JamesRandiFoundation. Faircloth is Director of Strategy & Policy at the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science, US.Message to homophobic Chick-Fil-Adjarm672012-08-01 | ...Verified evidence for the existence of Goddjarm672012-07-26 | Here it is folks!In God We Teachdjarm672012-07-05 | A film by Vic Losick, "In God We Teach" tells the story of a high school student who secretly recorded his history teacher in class, and accused him of proselytizing for Jesus. The teacher, in danger of losing his job strenuously denied it. The specifics of the controversy lead directly to the church & state arguments that are in the news this election year. With Stephen Colbert, Alan Dershowitz, Neil deGrasse Tyson and others. Please feel free to stream, download, share, and embed the film for non-commercial use. (www.InGodWeTeach.com)
Original Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP6B4gpgyRIRichard Dawkins - Christopher Hitchens Tributedjarm672012-06-03 | A Celebration of Reason - 2012 Global Atheist Convention 13-15th April - Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre Presented by the Atheist Foundation of Australia
Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist and was the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, and a Fellow of New College, Oxford, Retired. His most recent book, The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True was published in 2011.David Nicholls - Opening Address 2012 Global Atheist Conventiondjarm672012-05-27 | A Celebration of Reason - 2012 Global Atheist Convention 13-15th April - Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre Presented by the Atheist Foundation of Australia
David Nicholls has been a member of the Atheist Foundation of Australia for 27 years, and has been its president for the past 8 years. Under his leadership, the AFA has grown to be the largest, most active and well-known atheist organisation in Australia.Opening Video - 2012 Global Atheist Conventiondjarm672012-05-27 | This is the 2012 Global Atheist Convention's Opening Video.
Produced by Loud & Clear http://loudclear.com.au/My Global Atheist Convention Experiencedjarm672012-04-19 | Here is a compilation of photos and video from our weekend at the GAC (Global Atheist Convention).
This was an absolutely incredible weekend. Please do not miss the 2014 GAC.
Thanks to all the MCs and speakers
David Nicholls Kylie Sturgess Lawrence Leung Mikey Robbins Ben Elton Stella Young Jim Jeffreys Peter Singer Leslie Cannold Dan Barker Fiona Patten Dick Gross Colleen Hartland Marion Maddox Derek Guille Daniel Dennett A.C. Grayling Lawrence M. Krauss Geoffrey Robertson Ayaan Hirsi Ali Richard Dawkins Eugenie Scott Tanya Smith Annie Laurie Gaylor Sam Harris Emma McKenna Craig Foster Jason Ball PZ Myers Simon Taylor Mr Deity (Brian Dalton) Shelley Segal Tom Ballard Catherine Deveny
Special thanks to the following YouTubers,
AronRa Askegg Mr Deity HealthyAddict
And everyone at the AFA (Atheist Foundation of Australia)
http://www.atheistfoundation.org.au/
http://www.atheistconvention.org.au/Tribute to Christopher Hitchens - 2012 Global Atheist Conventiondjarm672012-04-18 | This is the video tribute which was played at the 2012 Global Atheist Convention in memory of Christopher Hitchens. There were many a teary eye in honour of an amazing intellect.
You will be missed Hitch
Thanks to the Atheist Foundation of Australia for this tribute.
http://www.atheistfoundation.org.au/Christopher Hitchens Tributedjarm672011-12-16 | Christopher Hitchens 1949 - 2011
One of my fave clips of Christopher Hitchens. Hitchens died today. You are already sadly missed.
Thank you!
DJ
This video was put together by the criminally undersubscribed pangeaprogressredux. Please show your support by subscribing to the YouTube channel,
http://www.youtube.com/user/pangeaprogressreduxGolden Crocoduck Awarddjarm672011-09-17 | As this potholer54 video has now been DMCA'd by Amenakin. I think she not only needs to have her award nominating performance reach an even greater audience but I vote for her to be declared an automatic recipient.
Censorship is not a valid form of argumentBanning All Religiondjarm672011-09-08 | The Gruen Transfer put up a challenge to various marketing companies to come up with "The Pitch" for the concept "Banning All Religion".
Two companies put their hands up.
Loud and Clear - Pitcher: Ben Beath
Play Communication - Pitcher: Simon Heroff
What do you think. Could a marketing concept such as these have an impact on the rates of religious belief or would the techniques used by the various religions to market themselves be unaffected.
Congratulations to both agencies for their excellent pitches and to The Gruen Transfer for facilitating the question.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/gruentransfer/default.htmAbraham debunks Lord Monckton climate denialist 2of6djarm672011-08-20 | Lord Christopher Monckton is a British consultant, policy adviser, writer, columnist, and hereditary peer. While not formally
trained in science, Monckton is one of the most cited and widely published climate skeptics, having even been invited to testify
to the U.S. Senate and Congress on several occasions.
Monckton is listed as a "Chief Policy Advisor" for the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI). The SPPI was until recently managed under the name "Center for Science and Public Policy Institute" by another free market think-tank called the Frontiers of Freedom. Frontiers of Freedom has received over $1 million in funding from ExxonMobil and over $1 million from Koch Industries.
Monckton is listed as a "Global Warming expert" for the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based free market think-tank. The Heartland Institute frequently attacks the scientific evidence for human-caused climate change. The Heartland Institute has received over $791,000 from oil-giant ExxonMobil since 1998.
John P. Abrahams is an Associate Professor at the University of St Thomas. He has a Ph.D. 2002, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, M.S. 1999, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota and B.S. 1997, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota. John's career to date has involved incorporating experimental work in heat transfer and fluid mechanics with computational studies. He has worked on a wide variety of both academic and industrial projects.
John's bio
http://www.stthomas.edu/engineering/faculty/jpabraham.htm
John's list of publications
http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/jpabraham/
This presentation
http://www.stthomas.edu/engineering/jpabraham/
Thanks to Professor Abraham for not only making this presentation but allowing me to include this on my channel.
3:38 "What the sunspot record tells us about space climate" -- D. Hathaway and R. Wilson Solar Physics 2004
4:32 "Is climate sensitive to solar variability?" Nicola Scafetta and Bruce J. West Opinion piece at http://www.fel.duke.edu/~scafetta/pdf/opinion0308.pdf
4:41 "Can solar variability explain global warming since 1970?"
-- S. K. Solanki and N. A. Krivova, Journal of Geophysical Research, May 2003
Solar Activity and the Mean Global Temperature
A.D. Erlykin et al, Physics Geo 2009
"Solar trends and global warming" -- R. Benestad and G. Schmidt, Journal of Geophysical Research July 2009
"How natural and anthropogenic influences alter global and regional surface temperatures: 1889 to 2006" J. Lean and D. Rind, Geophysical Research Letters, Sep 2008
"Recent changes in solar outputs and the global mean surface temperature. III. Analysis of contributions to global mean air surface temperature rise" -- M. Lockwood, June 2008
5:24 Slide 96 "Could it be Solar?" http://www.stthomas.edu/engineering/jpabraham/
5:49 "Meet the Climate Sceptics" BBC TV Feb 2011
7:10- 9:46 taken from posts in the forum of my Monckton Bunkum series of videos, and the videos themselves.
11:06 http://www.youtube.com/user/greenman3610Lord Monckton bringing the climate crazy to NZdjarm672011-08-10 | Lord Mockton continues on his magical misinfomation tour. This episode sees him in the land of the long white cloud and hobbits. Special thanks to Hugh Rose of Farmers of New Zealand Inc who targeted one of my other videos with a brilliant parrot impersonation of climate change denialism. The intellectual dishonesty has motivated me to source more of these.
Thanks to greenman3610 who uploaded this here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rizvaJyA-GMGlobal Climate Change - Debunking Lord Monckton 4djarm672011-08-07 | I would suggest that the goal of the vast majority of these prominent climate change skeptics is to create doubt regarding the recommendations of the scientific consensus in relation to the impact of our carbon emissions on global climate change. This doubt, once entrenched in the public opinion would provide a brake on real progress towards legislation to restrict carbon emissions. The obvious benefactors of a lack of progress would be industries who would be forced to lose billions in profits by having to change their business processes and models to comply with stricter regulations. Do you think that it is likely that these anti-climate change advocates are being bankrolled by these industries? You decide?
This video is a mirror of potholer54 addressing the claims of Lord Christopher Monckton
8'35" - "What the weatherman never said"
By Christopher Booker
Daily Telegraph, 20 Feb 2010
8'55" -- Speech to Sutherland Institute, Salt Lake City, March 2010
10'05" -- Comments on Ackerman article
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/piersakerman/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/malicious_bullets_fired_by_the_global_warmists_guns/
11'20" - "Apocalypse? No!" -- film by Christopher Monckton, 2007
11'24" -- Speech to Sutherland Institute, Salt Lake City, March 2010
11'37" -- St Paul
11'49" -- Speech in Melbourne
11'54" - Video_Audio_ FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy - 04.02.2011, 09_38
12'29" -- Speech to Sutherland Institute, Salt Lake City, March 2010Australian Census 2011 Mark No Religiondjarm672011-08-06 | The Australian government is conducting a census on Tuesday 9th August 2011. The Australian Atheist Foundation is urging all citizens to seriously consider their religious beliefs and answer the question honestly.
I honestly believe most Australians are "cultural Christians". That is, they like the popular ideals of "be nice to people", "don't steal", and "don't kill". While these *may* be Christian values, they do NOT constitute the necessary tenets and dogmas of the faith. Luckily for us the Christians themselves laid these out for us just over 300 years after Jesus reported walked the Earth in the Nicene Creed.
The Creed has been followed by (almost?) all denominations of Christianity since and hold be very familiar to many. It says there is one god who made everything, Jesus was born of a virgin rose from the dead after 3 days where he sits at the right hand of the father waiting to judge us all, there is only one church, and mandates belief in the resurrection of the dead and everlasting judgement and everlasting life. It's a lot to swallow.
If you do not believe these things, then be honest and write "no religion" (or the religion you currently hold true).
My deepest thanks go to Nonstampcollector's sister-in-law for the initial script, and Nonstampcollector's help in putting this together, and promoting the campaign.
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/askegg Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/askegg Podcast & Blog: http://www.godless.biz/Miss Ignorance USA 2011 discusses Evolution in schooldjarm672011-06-20 | This video of the Miss USA 2011 contestants displays the core of the issue regarding science education. The vast majority of these people do not understand what science is or how it works. The vast majority of these people do not understand what evolution is or how it works. They seem to equate the acceptance of a consensus scientific understanding with belief. They seem to think that there are two sides of some debate. This is what you get when ideology and religion is allowed to dictate education policy regarding what is science.
Evolution is a chronological change in allelic frequency within reproducing populations.
If we are to change the definition of science to allow the teaching of intelligent design creationism alongside the teaching of evolution, we should also teach,
Some of these ladies clearly have a much better understanding than others. For the record, the more intelligent chicks are definitely hotter!PZ Myers pwns Hamza Tzortzis & Adnan Rashid - Atheist Convention 2011djarm672011-06-10 | EPIC Lulz as Hamza Tzortzis and Adnan Rashid attempt to confront Embryologist PZ Myers on the Koran's version of embryology.
PZ Myers can usually be found lurking over at Pharyngula
Full original clip can be found here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T5Pm7qLH50Global Climate Change - Debunking Lord Monckton 3djarm672011-02-22 | I would suggest that the goal of the vast majority of these prominent climate change skeptics is to create doubt regarding the recommendations of the scientific consensus in relation to the impact of our carbon emissions on global climate change. This doubt, once entrenched in the public opinion would provide a brake on real progress towards legislation to restrict carbon emmissions. The obvious benefactors of a lack of progress would be industries who would be forced to lose billions in profits by having to change their business processes and models to comply with stricter regulations. Do you think that it is likely that these anti-climate change advocates are being bankrolled by these industries? You decide?
This video is a mirror of potholer54 addressing the claims of Lord Christopher Monckton
9'45" "CO2 as a primary driver of Phanerozoic climate" -- D. Royer et al, GSA Today, March 2004
11'24" "Is the Siachen glacier melting?" -- R. Ganjoo and M. Koul, Current Science, August 2009Global Climate Change - Debunking Lord Monckton 2djarm672011-02-20 | I would suggest that the goal of the vast majority of these prominent climate change skeptics is to create doubt regarding the recommendations of the scientific consensus in relation to the impact of our carbon emissions on global climate change. This doubt, once entrenched in the public opinion would provide a brake on real progress towards legislation to restrict carbon emissions. The obvious benefactors of a lack of progress would be industries who would be forced to lose billions in profits by having to change their business processes and models to comply with stricter regulations. Do you think that it is likely that these anti-climate change advocates are being bankrolled by these industries? You decide?
This video is a mirror of potholer54 addressing the claims of Lord Christopher Monckton
4'29" "The equilibrium sensitivity of the Earth's temperature to radiation changes"
R. Knutti and G. Heger
Nature Geoscience 2008
5'59" Rebuttals to Lindzen
"Relationships between tropical sea surface temperature and top-of-atmosphere radiation"
K. Trenberth, J. Fasullo, C. O'Dell T. Wong
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 2010
"Constraining climate sensitivity with linear fits to outgoing radiation"
Daniel M. Murphy, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 2010
"Revisiting the determination of climate sensitivity from relationships between surface temperature and radiative fluxes"
E. Chung, B. Soden, B. Sohn
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 2010
"The Impact of Global Warming on Marine Boundary Layer Clouds over the Eastern Pacific—A Regional Model Study"
A. Lauer et al
Journal of Climate, 2010
13'53" Monckton testimony to US House Energy Independence & Global Warming Committee
6 May 2010Global Climate Change - Debunking Lord Monckton 1djarm672011-02-18 | I would suggest that the goal of the vast majority of these prominent climate change skeptics is to create doubt regarding the recommendations of the scientific consensus in relation to the impact of our carbon emissions on global climate change. This doubt, once entrenched in the public opinion would provide a brake on real progress towards legislation to restrict carbon emmissions. The obvious benefactors of a lack of progress would be industries who would be forced to lose billions in profits by having to change their business processes and models to comply with stricter regulations. Do you think that it is likely that these anti-climate change advocates are being bankrolled by these industries? You decide?
This video is a mirror of potholer54 addressing the claims of Lord Christopher Monckton
10'56" "Decreasing Arctic Sea Ice Mirrors Increasing CO2 on Decadal Time Scale"
Ola M Johannessen, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters 2008 Vol. 1
11'59" "Recent Ice-Sheet Growth in the Interior of Greenland"
Ola M. Johannessen et al, Science November 2005
13'18" "Recent Greenland Ice Mass Loss by Drainage System from Satellite Gravity Observations" -- S. B. Luthcke, et al., Science November 2006
13'23" "Melting of Greenland Ice Sheet Satellite Gravity Measurements Confirm Accelerated Melting of Greenland Ice Sheet" --
J. L. Chen, et al., Science 2006
13'44" Speech at St. Paul, October 2009I have left Christianity and I am an atheist.djarm672010-11-17 | I have left Christianity. I am no longer a Christian. I am not a theist of any flavour. I am not a deist in any way shape or form. I am an atheist. I do not hold any beliefs in a deity or deities.
What does this mean for me? I don't know. What does this mean for my channel? I'm not sure, but I am interested to find out myself.MSF charity blogtvs got talent - djarm67 on bassdjarm672010-06-28 | This is a submission for the MSF 24 hour charity blogtv's got talent.
This entire piece is played on bass guitar (6 tracks of it recorded tonight with the help of Glenmorangie single malt). It's very rough with no re-takes but I still like it. I hope you do.
DJMSF Global Event Sept 18th 2010djarm672010-06-17 | Medecins Sans Frontieres (also known as Doctors without Borders) is an independent humanitarian organisation that provides medical care throughout the world, regardless or race, religion or politics. It was formed in 1971. In 1999 it won the Nobel Peace Prize; see:
The MSF(UK) youtube channel is here;
http://www.youtube.com/user/msfuk Where you will find the videos used in the making of this video and in particular the Head of MSF(UK), Marc DuBois' "thank you" video (made after last year's event).
This is an effective, safe and secure method of making donations. No-one involved in the event is able to handle any of the money. It is transferred directly to the charity.
I have set the ambitious target of $75,000 because I have agreed with youtube user c0ct0pusprime to have a tattoo of "c0ct0pus" is we reach that figure.
This years event (a 24 hour blogtv show) will start on 18th September and will be similar to last year. As well as some of the "usual suspects" there will be new co-hosts, (for example Matt Dillahunty has provisionally agreed to appear). There are also new events and features that will make this year even better than last year. I will be posting more videos about this shortly.
Thank-you for watching the video and reading the description.
Also, a massive thank you to FactVsReligion for making this video. Thank you Fact!
This video can be downloaded from this mediafire link;
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The video titled "Islam is so wonderful and sciency and peaceful" was taken down 3 hours after it got uploaded. Please mirror this video. It can be downloaded from here;
A new poll suggests that a slim majority of Texans reject evolution, according to a story in the Texas Tribune (February 17, 2010), which also noted that "nearly a third of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time." David Prindle, a professor of government at the University of Texas, Austin, who composed the questions, quipped that the poll confirmed the comedian Lewis Black's claim that a significant proportion of the American people think that The Flintstones was a documentary.
Among the questions on the poll was the standard Gallup question "Which of the following statements comes closest to your views on the origin and development of human beings?" with the choices (1) "Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided the process"; (2) "Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, and God had no part in the process"; and (3) "God created human beings pretty much in their present form about 10,000 years ago."
In the Texas poll, 38% of respondents chose (1), 12% chose (2), 38% chose (3), and 12% chose a fourth option, "Don't know." Comparing the results with a national Gallup poll conducted in 2008, in which 36% of respondents chose (1), 14% chose (2), 44% chose (3), and 5% offered a different or no opinion, it might seem as though Texans are slightly less inclined to creationism than the nation at large but the explicit presentation of a "Don't know" option in the Texas poll and not in the Gallup poll is probably responsible for the discrepancy. (Also, the Texas poll was only of registered voters.)
By omitting any reference to humans, a different question in the Texas poll in effect tested whether human evolution was especially problematic. Apparently so: only 22% of respondents chose "Life on earth has existed in its present form since the beginning of time"; 15% chose "Life on earth has evolved over time, entirely through 'natural selection,' with no guidance from God"; 53% chose "Life on earth has evolved over time, entirely through 'natural selection,' but with a guiding hand from God"; and 10% chose "Don't know."
Respondents were also asked whether they agree or disagree with "Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals": 35% agreed, 51% disagreed, 15% didn't know. In a national survey conducted in 2005, as Jon D. Miller, NCSE's Eugenie C. Scott, and Shinji Okamoto reported in Science, 40% of surveyed Americans agreed, 39% disagreed, and 21% were unsure. Among thirty-two countries discussed in the Science article, the United States was second only to Turkey in its rejection of evolution.
Unsurprisingly, the views of Texans in general are not reflected in the views of Texas's scientific community. As a report of a survey of Texas biologists conducted by the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund in conjunction with Raymond Eve summarized, "1. Texas scientists (97.7 percent) overwhelmingly reject 'intelligent design' as valid science. 2. Texas science faculty (95 percent) want only evolution taught in science classrooms. 3. Scientists reject teaching the so-called 'weaknesses' of evolution, with 94 percent saying that those arguments are not valid scientific objections to evolution."
Courtesy of NCSE and MSNBCOrigin of Life - Abiogenesis 1of5djarm672010-02-13 | Intelligent Design and Young Earth Creationist organisations often misrepresent evolution by stating that it does not explain the origin of life. This is a dishonest tactic. Of course the theory of evolution doesn't explain the origin of life. It is not supposed to. The origin of life or abiogenesis is within the field of chemistry not biology. Evolution explains the diversity of life within the field of biology not chemistry.
Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us on a journey. A journey towards life of Earth.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=27DA63FC8AB8DFD9Origin of Life - Abiogenesis 2of5djarm672010-02-13 | Intelligent Design and Young Earth Creationist organisations often misrepresent evolution by stating that it does not explain the origin of life. This is a dishonest tactic. Of course the theory of evolution doesn't explain the origin of life. It is not supposed to. The origin of life or abiogenesis is within the field of chemistry not biology. Evolution explains the diversity of life within the field of biology not chemistry.
Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us on a journey. A journey towards life of Earth.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=27DA63FC8AB8DFD9Origin of Life - Abiogenesis 3of5djarm672010-02-13 | Intelligent Design and Young Earth Creationist organisations often misrepresent evolution by stating that it does not explain the origin of life. This is a dishonest tactic. Of course the theory of evolution doesn't explain the origin of life. It is not supposed to. The origin of life or abiogenesis is within the field of chemistry not biology. Evolution explains the diversity of life within the field of biology not chemistry.
Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us on a journey. A journey towards life of Earth.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=27DA63FC8AB8DFD9Origin of Life - Abiogenesis 4of5djarm672010-02-13 | Intelligent Design and Young Earth Creationist organisations often misrepresent evolution by stating that it does not explain the origin of life. This is a dishonest tactic. Of course the theory of evolution doesn't explain the origin of life. It is not supposed to. The origin of life or abiogenesis is within the field of chemistry not biology. Evolution explains the diversity of life within the field of biology not chemistry.
Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us on a journey. A journey towards life of Earth.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=27DA63FC8AB8DFD9Origin of Life - Abiogenesis 5of5djarm672010-02-13 | Intelligent Design and Young Earth Creationist organisations often misrepresent evolution by stating that it does not explain the origin of life. This is a dishonest tactic. Of course the theory of evolution doesn't explain the origin of life. It is not supposed to. The origin of life or abiogenesis is within the field of chemistry not biology. Evolution explains the diversity of life within the field of biology not chemistry.
Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us on a journey. A journey towards life of Earth.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=27DA63FC8AB8DFD9Feathered Dinosaur Plumagedjarm672010-02-10 | Professors Richard Prum, the William Robertson Coe Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Derek Briggs, the Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Geology and Geophysics and director of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, and graduate student Jakob Vinther discuss how they discovered the plumage colors of an extinct feathered dinosaur for the first time.
Whilst the traditional view on the evolution of feathers was in relation to flight, new discoveries of feathered dinosaurs in China have changed this to focus on thermoregulation and display.
Certain organisations continue to parrot the phrase "no transitional fossils have ever been found". However, the list of species which possess transitional features continues to grow.
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Please support the NCSE in their efforts.Crazy Creationists 2of6djarm672010-01-30 | Creationists continue to attempt to get their particular version of theology into science classrooms. The tactics become more underhanded and grounded in legalities at individual state and schoolboard level. Eugenie Scott from the National Center for Science Education "NCSE" takes us on a journey exposing these dishonest practices whose only goal is to promote their own pseudo-science.
Please support the NCSE in their efforts.Crazy Creationists 3of6djarm672010-01-30 | Creationists continue to attempt to get their particular version of theology into science classrooms. The tactics become more underhanded and grounded in legalities at individual state and schoolboard level. Eugenie Scott from the National Center for Science Education "NCSE" takes us on a journey exposing these dishonest practices whose only goal is to promote their own pseudo-science.
Please support the NCSE in their efforts.Crazy Creationists 4of6djarm672010-01-30 | Creationists continue to attempt to get their particular version of theology into science classrooms. The tactics become more underhanded and grounded in legalities at individual state and schoolboard level. Eugenie Scott from the National Center for Science Education "NCSE" takes us on a journey exposing these dishonest practices whose only goal is to promote their own pseudo-science.
Please support the NCSE in their efforts.Crazy Creationists 5of6djarm672010-01-30 | Creationists continue to attempt to get their particular version of theology into science classrooms. The tactics become more underhanded and grounded in legalities at individual state and schoolboard level. Eugenie Scott from the National Center for Science Education "NCSE" takes us on a journey exposing these dishonest practices whose only goal is to promote their own pseudo-science.