Here is the Talk Origins FAQ on Evolution.
I will never again enter into climate change or evolution arguments on the internet. Instead I'll just link to these well-written and thoroughly referenced pages. These are discussion where one side is right and the other side is wrong and having the wrong side appear to win because my rhetorical skills are weak and the other side makes the weaker argument the stronger one is evil.
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09:14:28 AM,
Wednesday 1 November 2006
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I am in a little coffee shop across the street from Meredith College in Raleigh, killing time--and drinking tea--before my NC State class (which is not actually at NC State but at the professor's lab in an office park by the state fairgrounds). It is one of those very best independent coffee shops with lots of complicated drinks and comfy furniture and old magazines and random music and lots and lots of young women who attend Meredith (it's a women's college). Today, they have tied to every chair an orange helium-filled balloon with something Halloweeny drawn on it in sharpie. They obviously filled them with helium this morning, because now they are in various creepy states of floating, hovering, and quivering somewhere between the ceiling and the floor. Hurray for indie coffee shops (and the only good thing in Raleigh)!
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05:46:26 PM,
Tuesday 31 October 2006
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How to talk to a climate skeptic.
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11:01:57 AM,
Tuesday 31 October 2006
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Amanda hits a homerun.
If you look at the difference between conservatives and liberals as hinging on some euphemism like "states' rights" or some other such nonsense, your analysis will fail every time. Conservatives aren't about less government intrusion when they're the ones tapping your phones, subpoenaing your medical records, and parking a minister at the end of your bed. If you look at the debate as one over "Who counts?", then everything becomes clear. Conservatives want a "limited government", i.e. a limited view on who counts. Conservatives want a "small government", i.e. a small number of people who count.
And liberals want the number to be all Americans and more than that, we want a worldview where all human beings count.
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05:12:20 PM,
Monday 30 October 2006
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If you only click on one link today, it should be this one. I promise you will not be disappointed.
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