I have a few items for you from the Evolution Front.
First, you can have a free copy of an excerpt form the book Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating by Leslie Brunetta and Catherine L. Craig: Click here for the PDF file.
That was complements of the NCSE. Speaking of the NCSE, you can also have the latest copy of the Reports of the National Center for Science Education in its new on-line format:
And when you are done reading that, you can watch this:
"What Americans Think of Evolution"
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There's a kerfuffle under way in which Jerry Coyne, PZ Myers,
Chad Orzel says Support the National Center for Science Education:
Attention conservation notice: A couple thousand words of reply to questions about why I think NCSE does what it does, delivered in my capacity as a random blogger not as an NCSE staffer.
The NCSE has put out a press release congratulating Ayala for his Templeton Prize, and thanking him for his support of NCSE. It also parrots his defense of the compatibility of science and religion.
It won't play past minute 16.
Mine plays fine. Maybe you need a bigger computer?