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Florida Education Bill Revives Evolution Debate
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsA controversial bill in the Florida Senate that would require teachers to offer a "thorough presentation and critical analysis of the scientific theory of evolution" has kicked up the latest battle over evolution. The language is subtle, but critics say the bill is a clear bid by the backers of intelligent design to chip away at the credibility of evolution without inviting the ire of a court battle. "They're afraid that if they bring up intelligent design they will set themselves up for a court case," Joe Wolf, the president of Florida Citizens for Science, a group that supports evolution, ...
Scientists: Ancient Bird Evolved 'Nunchuck' Wings
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsScientists have discovered fossils in Jamaica of an extinct, flightless bird whose wings, they believe, evolved into huge bony clubs used to clobber predators. The chicken-sized bird, with a long beak and legs, couldn't fly and had no way to defend itself, aside from with its strong arm-wings. With thick, curved arm bones hinged at the shoulder, the birds are believed to have used their wings not for flight but to fight -- flailing them as a defense mechanism. The bizarre appendage has never been seen in any species before. "It's the most specialized weaponry of any bird I've ever seen," ...
Math Proof Bolsters Theory of Evolution, Researchers Say
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Dec. 14) --Change happens... ...often more quickly than one can imagine. Two University of Pennsylvania professors say their new reserach undercuts a longstanding critique of Charles Darwin's Theory of Evloution. Herbert Wilf, emeritus professor of mathematics, and Warren Ewens, emeritus professor of biology, say that they have created a new mathematical model that directly disproves the notion that "evolution couldn't have happened because the small changes in species outlined by the theory simply would have taken too much time to be completed." In their paper, which is titled "There's ...
Was Civilization Just an Excuse to Get Drunk?
By Dave Thier - AOL News
(Nov. 9) -- Anthropologists and archaeologists have been arguing for decades over why human beings ever moved from the idyllic lives of hunter gatherers to the painful toil of sedentary agricultural life. But some scientists have come up with an explanation that just about anyone can understand: We just wanted to get lit. Brian Hayden at Simon Fraser University in Canada says that the decision to settle down and grow cereal grains was motivated primarily by a desire to turn those grains into beer, not to eat them. Hayden has examined neolithic societies that lived in the Levant of Southwest ...
Christine O'Donnell Supporters Decry Debate Coverage
By David Knowles - AOL News
(Oct. 20) -- What did she say, and what did she mean? In the wake of tea party candidate Christine O'Donnell's comments on the First Amendment in a debate with her Democratic rival, Chris Coons, numerous media outlets (including this one) ran stories about O'Donnell's apparent lack of knowledge about the establishment clause of the First Amendment. Very quickly, however, other media sources, such as Rush Limbaugh, forcefully argued that O'Donnell was correct in that the literal words "separation of church and state" do not appear in the U.S. Constitution. "What she was talking about was ...
O'Donnell's Constitution Question Floors Audience
By David Knowles - AOL News
(Oct. 19) -- Where better to learn about the U.S. Constitution than at a law school? Unfortunately for Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, that education -- which came at Delaware's Widener Law on Thursday -- was courtesy of her opponent in the race, Democrat Chris Coons, in the midst of their second debate. After scolding Coons for his lack of knowledge of constitutional law for stating that intelligent design should not be taught in public schools (a matter decided in a scathing decision in the case of Kitzmiller v. Dover School District), O'Donnell challenged her rival on his ...
Christine O'Donnell: 'I'm Not a Witch'
By David Knowles - AOL News
(Oct. 4) -- Rest assured, it is a line that has never before been spoken in a modern American political campaign. In a new ad, Delaware Republican senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell begins her address to viewers by assuring them that she is not -- despite her admission in the late 1990s to talk show host Bill Maher that she had "dabbled into witchcraft" -- an actual witch. "I'm not a witch," a bemused O'Donnell says, looking into the camera. "I'm nothing you've heard. I'm you." O'Donnell's attempt to distance herself from her past by directly confronting the controversy in an ad ...
Christine O'Donnell Oxford University Mystery Solved (Sort Of)
By David Knowles - AOL News(Sept. 28)--Is it a case of simple resume padding, an innocent error, or something worse? A couple of weeks ago, Surge Desk writers Carl Franzen and Lance Gould noticed something odd about the LinkedIn page of GOP senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell. The Tea Party candidate had, under a heading describing her education, listed University of Oxford as one of the places she had taken a course titled "Post Modernism in the New Millennium." But after making calls to Oxford officials, Surge Desk could not find any evidence of a course by that name ever having been offered by the esteemed ...
Roger Ebert Tweets Rebuttal to Christine O'Donnell's Evolution Comments
By not in system - AOL News(Sept. 27) -- From witches to monkeys. No, it's not time for another "Wizard of Oz" retrospective, but you could be forgiven for thinking as much given the amount of attention surrounding current Delaware GOP senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell's prior life as a TV pundit or, more specifically, a few of her key controversial comments about said topics. Over the weekend, Bill Maher aired a 12-year-old clip of O'Donnell on his previous show "Politically Incorrect," in which she argued that "evolution is a myth" and asks "Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?" To answer her ...
Masturbation, Evolution and Socialism: 3 Things Christine O'Donnell Opposes
By David Knowles - AOL News(Sept. 15) -- What does a tea party candidate stand for? For Christine O'Donnell, who clobbered nine-term Republican Rep. Mike Castle to earn the party's Senate nomination in Delaware, the answer to that question has both surprising and not-so-surprising answers. While Republican strategist Karl Rove has been raising red flags over what he terms the "nutty things she has been saying," her defenders see an outspoken woman who demonstrates refreshing consistency. But as the nation gets to know O'Donnell, three interesting views that she has espoused have come to the fore. Surge Desk has the ...
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