Tag Archives: evolution

Survival Of The Stupidest

November 28, 2015 – 11:06 pm

Charles Darwin was blessed to have circumnavigated the globe in the HMS Beagle. His observations during the five-year voyage of the Southern Seas provided the young self-funded naturalist the time to develop with the theory of Natural Selection or Evolution as well as realized that throughout time Earth had experienced profound geological changes. No one […]

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Chicken or the Egg

June 14, 2014 – 11:03 am

The question ‘which came first the chicken or the egg’ has befuddled mankind for centuries. Philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato have pondered this mystery of circular cause and consequence without satisfaction. Darwin had argued that the chicken came first and lately Stephen Hawking has backed the egg. DNA testing on ancient fossils have failed […]

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Wintertime In Pattaya

January 5, 2013 – 11:59 am

I’ve spent the best part of the 21st Century in Thailand, especially from 2000-2008. For the most part the weather was hot, hotter, or hot and rainy during the monsoon season. There was also a brief winter and in 2007 an intense high pressure system stalled over Thailand inflicting seasonally cooler weather on the entire […]

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The End Of Science

October 6, 2012 – 1:39 pm

The GOP have nurtured a strong disdain of science in their followers as recently evinced by the declaration by Congressman Paul Broun that, “God’s word is true. I’ve come to understand that. All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the big bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit […]

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