Four articles dealing directly with evolution this week in Nature.
In Drosophila (this is an interesting one)In Sea SpidersHumansAnd FluAnd some
bacterial evolution,
bird evolution,
global warming and
rainforest deforestation in Science.
It's an interesting side-note in the ID debate currently going on, number of articles on evolution this week in the two most important scientific journals = 6, number of actual scientific articles published to date containing actual data on ID = 0. I've seen estimates of journal articles on evolution in the literature in the tens of thousands. It is difficult to assess by searching since evolution is also frequently used as a less-specific term. Hence, simple pubmed search yields 165,000 results since 1949. The ID people of course have no data, only analogies. Sometimes I wish science could be performed solely based on who has the most appealing analogy, it would make publishing a whole lot easier. Sadly, that's pretty much the definition of
Lysenkoism, which as is pointed out by the Wikipedia article was what Carl Sagan dubbed modern creationist efforts.
It is important to remember though, that the duty imposed upon you as followers of the great Give Up philosophy is not to care that people want to misinform their children about biology. It just means that the Red states will just fall behind in yet another measure of knowledge and human progress, and more science jobs and higher education for those who raise their kids in Blue states (excepting Dover PA) or among those who take the initiative to actually teach them real science. It's the Give Up version of survival of the fittest!
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