Also from Tom, a great new transitional critter between sea and land animals. Tom's comment is worth reprinting too: "Thank God, literally, we Catholics don't have to fool around with Fundamentalist Creationism crap. Anecdote: A friend of mine's sister is a nun and the principal of a Catholic girl's high school. When she found a biology teacher trying to inject Creationism next to Evolution, she fired his ass without blinking. Even "Intelligent Design" is anything but. How is it that people can't see that there is absolutely no contradiction between the mechanism of Evolution and belief? "
Apropos of that subject ("intelligent" design), a link from John Hawks' excellent anthropology blog sent me to this profile of biologist and filmmaker Randy Olson, whose forthcoming "Flock of Dodos" sounds both scientifically sound and hilarious. He wants scientists to use humor and plain speech to defend themselves and evolutionary ideas: "....when he watches the advocates of intelligent design at work, he sees pleasant people who speak plainly, convincingly and with humor. When scientists he knows talk about evolution, they can be dour, pompous and disagreeable, even with one another. His film challenges them to get off their collective high horse and make their case to ordinary people with — if they can muster it — a smile. "
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