Ken Miller on Intelligent Design

This is a very long video (almost 2 hours) but quite worthwhile for anyone interested in understanding why intelligent design creationism is bad science. Especially interesting to me were the bits where Miller discusses evidence against irreducible complexity. Miller is a Roman Catholic biology professor at Brown University, and he believes that faith and science [...]

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Chimpanzees Share Forbidden Fruit

The title was too good to resist: Chimpanzees Share Forbidden Fruit Abstract: The sharing of wild plant foods is infrequent in chimpanzees, but in chimpanzee communities that engage in hunting, meat is frequently used as a ‘social tool’ for nurturing alliances and social bonds. Here we report the only recorded example of regular sharing of [...]

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