Evolution Resources discussion and suggestions.

CJ · #1 by CJ » Feb 26, 2010 4:14 pm

We now have an Evolution Resources thread, so we need a discussion or suggestion thread about it's contents.

Please add your comments here!

Reverend Blair · #2 by **Reverend Blair** » Feb 26, 2010 5:41 pm

Excellent opening video, excellent resource. I spin a song in honour of everybody involved in putting it together. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg1CRgUjYVo

CJ · #3 by CJ » Feb 26, 2010 5:50 pm

Reverend Blair wrote:Excellent opening video, excellent resource. I spin a song in honour of everybody involved in putting it together.

Okayyyy what am I missing here?

Reverend Blair · #4 by **Reverend Blair** » Feb 26, 2010 6:08 pm

Perhaps if I post the lyrics, with some bolding

An elaborate tale

So convincingly real

Things can seem so amazing

til you get up close

And see theyre no big deal

Like the stars in the sky

Or the one on the stage

Just a big ball of gas

And a regular guy

Fresh out of minimum wage

In a jackalope space

On a jackalope high

Im staring you down

Creepy jackalope eye

Many things in this life

Are not what they appear

Yeah I look like a hare

But if you stop and you stare

Im related to a deer

I got a jackalope face

Im a jackalope guy

And Im staring you down

Creepy jackalope eye

Is it so hard to imagine

Is it so hard to believe

Something so outrageous

Something so far fetched

Well how bout adam and eve?

I know you gotta have faith

I know the need to hope

But the truth is always in place

Its right in front of my face

The mighty jackalope

Plus the Supersuckers rock.

Reverend Blair · #5 by **Reverend Blair** » Feb 26, 2010 6:15 pm

Er...didn't mean to derail the thread. Can somebody split the last couple of posts to somewhere more appropriate?

CJ · #6 by CJ » Feb 26, 2010 6:39 pm

No! leave them there for posterity and your ongoing humiliation!

Reverend Blair · #7 by **Reverend Blair** » Feb 26, 2010 6:57 pm

I'm used to the ongoing humiliation...that happens when you're me...just didn't want a simple thank you to cause a derail, so I thought we could move it elsewhere. We can keep it here though. Maybe we can even make Creepy Jackelope Eye the official anthem of this thread. :dance:

Sityl · #8 by **Sityl** » Apr 29, 2010 10:59 pm

CJ: I was incredibly inspired by the second part of Sagan's "Cosmos", "One Voice In The Cosmic Fugue." It' an hour long, and is available on Hulu, and is almost guaranteed to be on youtube as well. It was beautiful.

Latimeria · #9 by **Latimeria** » Jul 13, 2010 4:16 am

More great evolution videos can be found here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/educa ... ideos.html

And here:

http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/ ... owevowork/

Unless you are a registered user, however, the second link will limit the number of items you can view

Latimeria · **#10** by **Latimeria** » Jul 13, 2010 4:18 am

One more link to that same website, but with a larger selection of videos:

http://www.teachersdomain.org/collectio ... processes/

MaxPD · **#11** by **MaxPD** » Nov 17, 2010 1:37 am

YaleCourses on YouTube offers the full course (36 45~min lectures) on Evolution, Ecology and Behavior from Yale University here.

lucaspa · **#12** by **lucaspa** » Oct 25, 2011 2:34 pm

Duplicate post to the one below.

lucaspa · **#13** by **lucaspa** » Oct 25, 2011 2:35 pm

lucaspa wrote:
Sityl wrote:CJ: I was incredibly inspired by the second part of Sagan's "Cosmos", "One Voice In The Cosmic Fugue." It' an hour long, and is available on Hulu, and is almost guaranteed to be on youtube as well. It was beautiful.

That one you need to be careful of. While it is good science, it is also religious theatre. The religious theatre part probably explains your "inspired".

A few websites that were missed:
Science issue on evolution http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol28 ... ndex.shtml
Breathrough of the year in 2005: evolution in action http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/f ... /5756/1878
AAAS site on evolution: http://www.aaas.org/spp/dser/evolution/
Natural selection by Futuyma: http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/futuyma.html
NABT Teaching Guide on Evolution http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/evolution98/
National Center for Science Education: http://www.ncse.com
NCSE on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/NatCen4ScienceEd

http://www.gcssepm.org/special/cuffey_01.htm general article on fossils and evolution
http://www.mun.ca/biology/scarr/4505_Fossil_Record.htm

Whale evolution: 4. http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/mpm/struthers.html
http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/babinski/ ... ution.html

Refutation that Irreducibly Complex structures cannot be made by Darwinian selection:
http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/staff/dave/articles/jtb.pdf

CJ · **#14** by CJ » Dec 16, 2011 10:19 am

As I can't edit my own posts there is nothing that can be done about this. Please don't waste your time suggesting more edits to the thread. They won't happen.

ChasM · **#15** by **ChasM** » Dec 25, 2011 12:06 am

Hey CJ -

The Ev Resources sticky is a great idea. :thumbup:

I was wondering if you could include a simple list of the evidence for macro & micro evolution with brief explanations, examples, common canards & resource links. Something like:

Bio-geography (macro)
[explanation]
[examples]
[canards & refutations]
[resourses]

Comparative Molecular Genetics (macro)

Comparative & Vestigial Physiology (macro)

Fossil Record (macro)

Variation within Species (micro)

Not sure if this covers all the major points, but I think laypeople could use a handy, compact list to recall the next time that some clown asserts that while micro-ev has been demonstrated, macro-ev is still under dispute. :doh:

CJ · **#16** by CJ » Feb 22, 2012 4:33 pm

As I can't edit my own posts there is nothing that can be done about this. Please don't waste your time suggesting more edits to the thread. They won't happen.

Mazille · **#17** by **Mazille** » Feb 22, 2012 6:55 pm

CJ, just drop me a PM with what you want to have added and where and I'll do it for you. :cheers:

(Or if I'm not around, there's always a member of staff willing to help.)

CJ · **#18** by CJ » Feb 24, 2012 1:53 pm

Mazille wrote:CJ, just drop me a PM with what you want to have added and where and I'll do it for you. (Or if I'm not around, there's always a member of staff willing to help.)

Well any mod who reads this thread can do the update to the ER thread. I don't mind. The annoying thing is that I could be given the ability to edit my own posts and then I could just get on with it.