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	<title>Rosio Pavoris &#187; Biology</title>
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	<description>Unscientific and ultimately destructive.</description>
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		<title>Afrikaners don&#8217;t know what the hell they&#8217;re talking about</title>
		<link>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2009/11/10/afrikaners-dont-know-what-the-hell-theyre-talking-about/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cairnarvon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not even talking about apartheid or AIDS. I&#8217;m talking about language. Quite apart from the fact that they incomprehensibly keep pretending their dialect is a language in its own right, they keep applying the wrong words to things, and then passing them on to other languages.
Three examples.

Exhibit A: Meerkat





This is probably the most famous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dawkins on race</title>
		<link>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2009/01/26/dawkins-on-race/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cairnarvon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing that continues to annoy me whenever my internets get into a discussion about race is that invariably, very nearly everyone gets it wrong. The most recent example of this is, of course, when some Stormfront morons declared war on Pharyngula.
On the one hand you have the common racists, which are wrong for obvious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Ring Species</title>
		<link>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2008/09/09/on-ring-species/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cairnarvon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Memes evolve, and even creationist memes are no exception. It used to be that they denied things like antibiotic resistance in bacteria and pesticide resistance in insects even existed, but now most of the ones that actually end up &#8220;debating&#8221; sane people seem to agree that &#8220;micro-evolution&#8221; happens, but &#8220;macro-evolution&#8221; doesn&#8217;t.
The distinction is meaningless, of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I made a science</title>
		<link>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2008/05/04/i-made-a-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 06:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cairnarvon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After watching a few more videos by and about creationists on the YouTube, I realised that not only do I have more computing power at my fingertips than most scientists in history could ever have dreamed of and a greater-than-average ability to use said power, I also have a neat, educational, and easily implemented project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silent Spring</title>
		<link>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2007/07/26/silent-spring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cairnarvon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmentalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rachel-Carson]]></category>
<category>environmentalism</category><category>Rachel Carson</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This took a while to finish. In part because I&#8217;m reading too many books at once, but also because it&#8217;s so depressing I had to put it down a few times.
Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson, published in 1962, is single-handedly responsible for revitalising the environmental movement around the world. I wanted to read it just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution and Abiogenesis</title>
		<link>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2007/07/06/evolution-and-abiogenesis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cairnarvon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is something that&#8217;s been annoying me recently.
If you&#8217;ve ever had a discussion with a creationist (not, like, a run-of-the-mill creationist whose only argument is &#8220;evolution is false because my pastor says it is&#8221;, but a creationists who thinks his views are defensible), chances are that at one point, they said something like &#8220;evolution is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Misunderstanding Natural Selection</title>
		<link>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2007/07/03/misunderstanding-natural-selection/</link>
		<comments>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2007/07/03/misunderstanding-natural-selection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cairnarvon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another argument I&#8217;ve seen come up a few times&#8212;I don&#8217;t intend to correct every single misconception I run into on the intertron, but this one is basic and common enough it&#8217;s worth addressing.
Have humans stopped evolving?
The argument tends to go something like &#8220;normally the weak die out and the strong survive, and that&#8217;s evolution, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Methinks it is like a Dawkins</title>
		<link>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2007/06/27/methinks-it-is-like-a-dawkins/</link>
		<comments>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2007/06/27/methinks-it-is-like-a-dawkins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cairnarvon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard-Dawkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[video]]></category>
<category>Java</category><category>Richard Dawkins</category><category>video</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps you&#8217;re already familiar with the idea behind METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL; it&#8217;s a simple program designed by Dawkins to demonstrate the enormous power of Darwinian evolution. He originally mentioned it in his book The Blind Watchmaker, and gave a demonstration of it in the accompanying BBC programme.
He also explains it in this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Evolutionary Psychology</title>
		<link>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2007/06/25/on-evolutionary-psychology/</link>
		<comments>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2007/06/25/on-evolutionary-psychology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cairnarvon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[People have been talking about this recently, mostly sparked by some creationists calling it an example of Darwinian fundamentalism, followed by some atheist evolutionary biologists going &#8220;lol i dont believe it&#8221;.
Let me start by saying that evolutionary psychology, as it stands today, is indeed almost entirely pseudoscientific bullshit. This seems to be because psychology in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your dose of Sagan</title>
		<link>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2007/06/21/your-dose-of-sagan/</link>
		<comments>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2007/06/21/your-dose-of-sagan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cairnarvon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carl-Sagan]]></category>
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<category>Carl Sagan</category><category>evolution</category><category>video</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve posted this before. Carl Sagan on evolution and selection both artificial and natural. (06:24)
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