Posts Tagged ‘Homologous Legs’

My own blog, Homologous Legs, is currently hosting the 135th edition of the Carnival of the Godless blog carnival, featuring a delightful selection of godless posts from various excellent bloggers, including (but not limited to) the Digital Cuttlefish, Podblack Cat, Atheist Revolution, and Secularism Examiner. Check it out if you like good writing about religion […]

This is a post I recently wrote for my miniblog, but the reaction it received (not necessarily just through blog comments) has lead me to put it up on the main blog  —  and here on the Young Australian Skeptics website  —  where it’s most visible. It deals with something that might be considered a bit controversial in the […]

I recently mentioned, on my blog, Dr. Granville Sewell, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas, El Paso, in relation to a new book of his, filled with essays about intelligent design and evolution, that was recently published by the Discovery Institute. Sewell is an intelligent design proponent/​​advocate, and due to his status as […]

Intelligent design proponents, like those found at the Discovery Institute, love to claim that their intellectual weapon of choice, ID, has a basis in science and the scientific method. A prominent claim within this is that ID is falsifiable, just as all good (wait, no, just all) hypotheses must be in order to be scientific. […]

I’m going to assume that a sizable number of people who read this blog are new to skepticism, or at least new to the skeptical scene on the Internet. For those of you without a blog of your own, you may not be familiar with the Skeptic’s Circle, a blog carnival that occurs every two […]

[The following is x-​​​​posted from my blog, Homologous Legs. Be sure to voice your opinion in the comments after you’ve finished reading, as I know this is a controversial topic.]
The question in the title of this post is a question that relates more to my skeptical and atheistic leanings than my evolutionary ones, as […]

I’m in Year 12 at high school, currently undertaking my final year of VCE (the Victorian Certificate of Education), and a requirement of this is doing a mid-​​​​year exam called the GAT (the General Achievement Test). It’s basically a test that applies your science, maths and English skills in ways that don’t require any special […]

You’ve might have heard about the creationism/​​evolution debate at some point in your life, either in the paper, on the television or on the radio. You might have caught a glimpse of a furious back-​​​​and-​​​​forth about the rights of Christian private schools to teach what they want to their students before the news cycle flipped […]