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Richard Dawkins
Star thinkers in
'e-learning' launch - "Brief free taste for public but internet expositions by
top academics such as Richard Dawkins and Niall Ferguson will then be licensed"
Backlash against church schools drive by
Clare Dean, TES (Feb 23 2001) - "The eminent scientist Richard Dawkins is
leading a growing chorus of criticism of the Government's plan for more religious
schools."
Get A-Life by mathew - "Complicated simulations that were
unthinkable ten years ago can now be performed by the computer you're staring at right
now. In fact, we can go beyond simulation--we can show evolutionary principles applied to
real situations, in new fields such as genetic programming and artificial life.
Creationists may scoff that simulations prove nothing--but their protests are wide of the
mark, as this article will attempt to explain" (Hyperlinked article
covers CA, L-Systems, Biomorphs, Tierra, GA & GP)
Ventrella.com - A website of Artificial Life,
Art, and Ideas
Gene Pool for Wndows -
"an artificial life simulation where populations of physics-based organisms called
"swimbots" evolve over time..."
Darwin Pond for Windows -
"an imaginary gene pool, a primordial puddle of genetic surprises. More technically,
Darwin Pond is an Artificial Life Simulation: a virtual world exhibiting the emergence of
life-like behaviors..."
Sexual Swimmers -
"Emergent Morphology and Locomotion Without a Fitness Function", published
in: From Animals to Animats (page 484) 1996, MIT Press
Life Drop Java Applet -
"LifeDrop is a biologically-inspired 3D virtual worlds available to a wide audience
on the Internet for education and research. ... Each creature is acting as an autonomous
agent with its own genotype, metabolism, morphology and behaviors. Life forms are able to
reproduce and their evolution often leads to surprising consequences." (from Virtual Worlds 2000)
Framsticks (see the latest) - 3D "Life
simulation project is in progress. It includes evolution of physical structure, control
system (neural network) structure and its knowledge.
Artificial Life Online
2.0 the Santa Fe Institute, a new version of their website - "This web
site is about Artificial Life, about the synthesis of life in artificial media, and the
study and research done on artificial models of biological phenomena."
Evolution Opponents Hold
Congressional Briefing - "IN A NUTSHELL: Supporters of intelligent design
theory brought their message to Capitol Hill in a series of events for Members of Congress
and their staff. A three-hour briefing focused on the scientific evidence for the origin
and development of life and the universe as the work of an intelligent designer...."
(American Geological Institute)
ALTERNATIVE SCIENCE: CONGRESS
BRIEFED ON INTELLIGENT DESIGN - "Darwin took a pounding on Wednesday when The
Discovery Institute (http://www.crsc.org) brought its top guns to Capitol Hill to brief
members and their staffs on the need for "Intelligent Design" in public school
science curricula as an alternative to Darwinian evolution." (The American Physical
Society)
Congressional co-hosts include: Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), Rep. Charles Canady (R-FL),
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX), Rep. Thomas Petri (R-WI), Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), Rep.
Mark Souder (R-IN), Rep. Charles Stenholm (D-TX) How
to contact memebers of congress
Don Patton Quotations about Evolution
- "8 honest quotations, 17 quotations that ignore important parts of the context, 1
blatantly dishonest quotation, 2 instances of bad math"
