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	<title>Scientific Skeptic &#187; Science</title>
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	<description>So we keep asking, over and over, until a handful of earth stops our mouths - but is that an answer?</description>
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		<title>Skepticism versus denial&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.sciskep.com/2009/05/04/skepticism-versus-denial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 20:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  There are many examples of words that mean different things depending on whether they&#8217;re used in a casual or common manner, or whether they&#8217;re used in a scientific manner.  The word theory, for example, is often used as a synonym for guess or hunch in common usage, and in everyday talk, this is usually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How could we affect the Earth?  Here&#8217;s how&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.sciskep.com/2009/04/27/how-could-we-affect-the-earth-heres-how/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Awesome post a couple of days ago over at Starts With A Bang.  It&#8217;s titled, &#8220;How Could We Affect The Earth?&#8220;, and it details in layman&#8217;s terms what exactly we&#8217;re talking about here.  It&#8217;s said that there are lies, damned lies, and statistics, but there is no arguing with simple numbers that undeniably show we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome, President Obama&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.sciskep.com/2009/01/20/welcome-president-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have looked forward to this day for a long time, perhaps all my life.  A politician has entered the highest office in the land, and he&#8217;s articulate, visionary and highly intelligent.  Who woulda thunk it?  We have had smart presidents in my lifetime before, and even articulate presidents (Bill Clinton comes to mind).  But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy 150th Birthday, Evolution&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.sciskep.com/2008/07/01/happy-150th-birthday-evolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciskep.com/2008/07/01/happy-150th-birthday-evolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[150 years ago today, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace introduced the world to the theory of evolution by means of natural selection.  Today, it is one of the most important findings in science and serves as the foundation of modern biology. July 1, 1858:  Darwin and Wallace shift the paradigm The importance of their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gorillas in trouble&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.sciskep.com/2008/05/30/gorillas-in-trouble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 20:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sciskep</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sad news from Congo, and getting worse: Gorillas&#8217; protectors besieged in Congo During three months last fall, militiamen wielding AK-47s also slaughtered thousands of hippos in Lake Edward, whose waters for a while turned red from the blood. In that instance, rangers believe, the slaughter was for money, the meat from one hippo fetching $300 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bingo&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.sciskep.com/2008/05/29/bingo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciskep.com/2008/05/29/bingo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 14:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The creationists are at it again:  Bizarre Legal Thinking on Evolution and Creationism.  What he said.  I would respond with a biting rebuttal myself, but someone else has already done it, probably better than I could:  All Epistemologies Are Not Created Equal.  The key is here, right from the beginning: Jacob Bronowski used to say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reality is not a democracy&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.sciskep.com/2008/01/18/reality-is-not-a-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciskep.com/2008/01/18/reality-is-not-a-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; A creationism &#8220;museum&#8221; in Texas is apparently about to fold, so they are attempting to sell a large Mastadon skull to avoid going under.  The skull is estimated to be about 40,000 years old.  I wonder how creationists like selling an artifact that is advertised as being much older than their beliefs allow?  Personally, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two more years to win a million dollars&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.sciskep.com/2008/01/04/two-more-years-to-win-a-million-dollars/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciskep.com/2008/01/04/two-more-years-to-win-a-million-dollars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who don&#8217;t know, James Randi is a professional stage magician who goes by the moniker The Amazing Randi.  He is exceptional at what he does, but he is even more exceptional at his &#8220;side project&#8221;, which is debunking the paranormal.  As a magician, Randi knows there is no such thing as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dark Ages are still with us&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.sciskep.com/2007/08/13/the-dark-ages-are-still-with-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciskep.com/2007/08/13/the-dark-ages-are-still-with-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amazing.  Simply amazing.  Here we are in the 21st century, surrounded by the fruits of science and technology.  We human beings benefit from the discoveries of science and the advancement of technology every day, from flying in aircraft that carry us long distances in short amounts of time through the air, to watching moving images [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sci-fi comes to life&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.sciskep.com/2007/07/17/sci-fi-comes-to-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciskep.com/2007/07/17/sci-fi-comes-to-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a fascination with animals which seem like they should only belong to the annals of science fiction, but which actually exist (especially when said animal was thought to have only existed in science fiction, and then is later found to be real).  Creatures from the ocean depths seem particularly qualified for this distinction, [...]]]></description>
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