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Are Evolution Deniers Conspiracy Theorists?

posted almost 13 years ago
I took a few hours and compiled a list. Opinion?

Support and evidence for Evolution=
  1. The NCBI's Protein Database (National Center for Biotechnology Information) Publications and experiments in Protein database confirming evolution (2,042,416) as of 13 January 2012 -http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/protein/?term=evolution
  2. PubMed Database of biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books confirming evolution (306,930) published as of 13 January 2012 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=evolution
  3. 215 Carnivorous Species of dinosaurs, by no means comprehensive
    -http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/carnivorousdinosaurs/Carnivorous_Dinosaurs.htm



Top Research Universities Around the World

  1. Berkeley - http://evolution.berkeley.edu/
  2. Harvard University, US - http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/
  3. Princeton University, US -http://www.princeton.edu/eeb/gradinitiative/evolution/
  4. University College London - http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/
  5. Columbia University, New York- http://www.columbia.edu/cu/e3b/
  6. Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore US -http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/fae/
  7. Oxford, UK - http://evolve.zoo.ox.ac.uk/Evolve/Research.html
  8. Cambridge, UK - http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/zoostaff/akam/index.html
  9. Yale University, US - http://www.yale.edu/eeb/
  10. Stanford University, California -http://www.stanford.edu/group/ecoevo/
  11. Australian National University - http://biology.anu.edu.au/eeg/
  12. University of Tokyo, Japan - http://www.biol.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/eb.htm
  13. Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - http://www.gen.tcd.ie/molevol/
  14. University of Geneva, Switzerland - http://genev.unige.ch/l
  15. Seoul National University, South Korea -http://www.behecolpiotrsangim.org/
  16. University of Hong Kong, PRC - http://evolution.hku.hk/
  17. Manchester, UK -http://www.ls.manchester.ac.uk/research/researchgroups/computationalandevolutionarybiology/
  18. École Normale Supérieure de Paris, France -http://www.biologie.ens.fr/eceem/spip.php?rubrique16
  19. UCLA, US - http://www.eeb.ucla.edu/
  20. Duke, US - http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Biology/faculty/evolution.html
  21. University of Helsinki Finland-http://www.helsinki.fi/biosciences/ecologyandevolutionarybiology/research.htm


Museums and Societies

  1. Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC- http://humanorigins.si.edu/
  2. American Museum of Natural History, New York with collections of more than 32 million specimens and artifacts -http://www.amnh.org/learn/evolution
  3. Paleontology Society - http://www.paleosoc.org/evolutioncomplete.htm
  4. American Institute of Biological Sciences -http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/
  5. Geological Society of America -http://www.geosociety.org/positions/position1.htm
  6. National History Museum, London - http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/evolution/
  7. Museum of Paleontology Michigan -http://www.paleontology.lsa.umich.edu/Resources/vertPaleo.html
  8. Peabody Museum, Yale - http://peabody.yale.edu/exhibits/hall-mammalian-evolution
  9. Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris -http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/foffice/tous/tous/guidePratique/lieuxVisiter/LieuxAVisiter/FLieuAVisiter.xsp?i=1&AE_ID=203&nav=liste&SITE_ID=10&idx=2&LIEU_ID=164&INFO_ID=1&MAN_ID=259 
  10. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology Berkeley -http://mvz.berkeley.edu/Evol_Gen_Lab.html
  11. PBS - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/
  12. Human Genome Project -http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/project/benefits.shtml


Prestigious Science Academies

  1. National Academy of Science -http://www.nationalacademies.org/evolution/
  2. Royal Society - http://royalsociety.org/human-evolution/
  3. Centre for Ecology and Evolution, London http://www.ceevol.co.uk/
  4. American Institute of Biological Sciences - http://www.aibs.org/public-policy/teaching_evolution.html


Vital Information that confirms the theory
  1. How to shut up pesky creationists' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK3O6KYPmEw 
  2. The fusion of chromosomes in other great apes and humanshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome_2_(human)
  3. Evolution and diversity of trilobites -http://www.trilobites.info/trends.htm
  4. Peer Reviewed Work Containing evolution? 301,000+http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=evolution 
  5. How Information is added - http://www.facebook.com/note.php?saved&&note_id=315525578470499
  6. Stanford's Population Genetics page (mathematical evidence)-http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/population-genetics/
  7. J Craig Venter Institute (DNA can be made from a jar of chemicals)http://blogs.jcvi.org/2011/03/nasa-and-jcvi-host-symposium-on-the-evolution-of-earth-and-life/
  8. Smithsonian Internship Research Presentations-http://www.mnh.si.edu/NHRE/archives.html 
  9. From Single Cells to Multicellular Organisms NCBI Bookshelf-http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK28332/ 


Support from Religious Scientists

  1. President of National Human Genome Project, President of National Institute of Health, Francis Collins: Scientist and Christian and his book on the evidence for evolution: "The Language of God" -http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/january/32.62.html
  2. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1090921,00.html
  3. "I'm an evolutionary biologist and a Christian," states Stanford professor Joan Roughgarden"- http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Christian-Faith-Reflections-Evolutionary/dp/1597260983
  4. Ground breaking dinosaur paleontologist, educator, Christian preacher Dr. Robert T. Bakker -http://www.prehistoricplanet.com/features/index.php?id=26
  5. Evolution explained by Christian Dr. Robert J. Schneider. Who's "Science and Faith" course was awarded a John Templeton Foundation Science and Religion Course Prize in 1997. -http://community.berea.edu/scienceandfaith/essay05.asp
  6. "Nothing makes sense except" A phrase originating from Russian Orthodox Christian evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_in_Biology_Makes_Sense_Except_in_the_Light_of_Evolution
  7. (National Center for Science Education) Religious organizations accepting evolution, scientific organizations, etc -http://ncse.com/files/pub/evolution/Voices_3e.pdf
  8. How many Christians/denominations accept scientific theory of evolution? - http://www.theclergyletterproject.org/rel_evol_sun.htm


Want a PhD or Masters in evolutionary biology?

144 Evolutionary Biology Graduate Programs -http://www.gradschools.com/search-programs/evolutionary-biology
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