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Last week, an international team of scientists have released information regarding a 47 million years old fossil they have been researching in secret for the past two years. If what they claim is true, then this is the “missing link” the anti-evolutionary camp has been complaining was missing for years and the proof scientists needed to show they were right in their assumptions all along. Scientists say Ida is the link between primates and the rest of the mammals, which is a great breakthrough for evolutionary science and a step forward in confirming yet again Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.

The team of researchers have released a website, a book and a documentary. The documentary will air tonight (9pm ET/PT) on the History Channel in the United States, tomorrow on NRK (Norway) and on the 30th on ZDF in Germany. The BBC has a version narrated by Sir David Attenborough entitled Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor which will air on May 26th at 9pm on BBC One. For more information please feel free to visit the website at http://www.revealingthelink.com/.

The implications of this are enormous! I will be writing a follow-up article detailing the implications after I have had a chance to see the documentary and probably one more after I get my hands on the book. Until then feel free to have a look at the short presentation from the researchers’ website:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bKHAaNxOv0

Taige Jensen of Youtube comedy sensation P0YKPAC has sent me this video and said they thought of me when making it. It’s an extremely funny video! Enjoy!

For more P0YKPAC visit their Youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/P0YKPAC

Pope condoms

You may recall that during his visit to the African continent back in March 2009 catholic church leader, pope Benedict XVI said the spread of HIV and Aids in Africa should be tackled through fidelity and abstinence and not by condoms.

Leaving aside the very humorous claim that he’s some special work of his imaginary friend and that he’s been especially sent to earth to be the voice of said imaginary friend, his words are criminal. Yes, criminal, as in they can kill people. One of the best known religious figures in the world coming out and saying that condoms don’t work is irresponsible! First of all there is scientific evidence saying that condom use does stop, in an overwhelming majority of cases, the spread of HIV and Aids.

Does the pope want to have less and less followers? People are surely not going to stop having sex, it’s in their nature, and if they extrapolate from this that the pope does not recommend condoms they probably won’t use them and they have a high probability to contract STDs and because of the lack of appropriate medical care, might die. Is that what the Pope wants?

The Vatican of course came out and said that the pope does recommend the use of condoms, but the damage had already been done. I hope such damage is avoided in the future. We don’t need a sexually frustrated man who thinks he speaks to an imaginary friend giving sexual advice.

The Telegraph (UK) online edition bublished a picture of a woman holding the above condom in Paris, released to mock the pope and his ridiculous statements. (continue reading…)

At 8.30pm this Saturday join millions of people around the globe and switch off your lights for Earth Hour.

This year Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and climate change.

For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities and backgrounds have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote. By switching off your lights you will be voting for Earth and showing the world that we need to take action.

For more information about this global event visit the WWF website. I will defenatly be participating in this great initiative. We should do this more often methinks.

You may remember that the Texas State Board of Education was discussing weather or not to introduce a longtime curriculum rule that “strengths and weaknesses” of all scientific theories should be covered in science classes and textbooks. This was introduced by Republican conservatives and was aimed at combating Evolution, trying to get creation/intelligent design into the curriculum as a counterbalance to Darwins’ theory.

The reason this motion was allowed in the first place eludes me. Why are people trying to teach religion instead of science? If you want your kid to not know science send him to live in the desert where Jesus lived, with no running water or electricity, because that is the  kind of prehistoric crap you’re trying to shove down his throat.

This was a narrow win, if we can even call it that, considering the vote was 7:7, a draw.

Read more on the story at DallasNews.com.