are very informative and readable. I just finished "At the Waters Edge" and I must say that as a layman it really expanded my knowledge about evolution. The whole "no transitional fossils" line from creationists is just so much crap and it doesn't take much exposure to paleontology to see that. I read that the book that Zimmer wrote as a companion to the PBS series "Evolution" is going to be re-released with some additions and updated information. If you are looking for a good starter book on evolution I recommend it.
like we criticised the hardline Russian government with their nearly unlimited investigative power that existed without any judicial oversite(KGB) and called it a bad thing that such an agency existed to police it's own citizens and now with every expansion of the patriot act we are becoming that which we fought so hard to destroy.
I suppose we can gather in a circle and sing kumbaya and hope that the FBI doesn't use it's expanded powers against ordinary citizens, but when has a police agency not abused powers like this when THEY deemed it neccessary? If they weren't hoping to use these powers in an unlimited fashion then why was the wording of the powers expressed so vaugely? Why have no judicial oversite if you are planning on doing things above board and ethically?
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are very informative and readable. I just finished "At the Waters Edge" and I must say that as a layman it really expanded my knowledge about evolution. The whole "no transitional fossils" line from creationists is just so much crap and it doesn't take much exposure to paleontology to see that. I read that the book that Zimmer wrote as a companion to the PBS series "Evolution" is going to be re-released with some additions and updated information. If you are looking for a good starter book on evolution I recommend it.
like we criticised the hardline Russian government with their nearly unlimited investigative power that existed without any judicial oversite(KGB) and called it a bad thing that such an agency existed to police it's own citizens and now with every expansion of the patriot act we are becoming that which we fought so hard to destroy. I suppose we can gather in a circle and sing kumbaya and hope that the FBI doesn't use it's expanded powers against ordinary citizens, but when has a police agency not abused powers like this when THEY deemed it neccessary? If they weren't hoping to use these powers in an unlimited fashion then why was the wording of the powers expressed so vaugely? Why have no judicial oversite if you are planning on doing things above board and ethically?
while they may try to change the definition of "science", they appear to be simultaneously insuring that the definition of "moron" stays the same.