by Karen on September 3, 2010
The ICR has conceded defeat and given up its quest to issue MS degrees here in Texas:
Now, with the federal ruling against ICR, the Texas government may mandate that any private sector college, even those that accept no government funding, may be regulated by the THECB,
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However, please know that, while ICR’s legal battle is over, we will not retreat from other public efforts to fight the “Dragon” and his minions.
Sorry, but I had to snip out all the crap about how not letting them piss on the furniture is discrimination. You can read the whole thing here.
by Karen on September 3, 2010
Evolution has been caught in the act. Scientists have discovered a group of yellow bellied three toed skinks in colder areas of Australia have more or less abandoned egg laying and are now giving live birth.towards live birth.
Their counterparts in warmer areas of Australia continue to use eggs as a means of reproduction.
From the National Geographic:
Along the warm coastal lowlands of New South Wales, the yellow-bellied three-toed skink lays eggs to reproduce. But individuals of the same species living in the state’s higher, colder mountains are almost all giving birth to live young.
Only two other modern reptiles—another skink species and a European lizard—use both types of reproduction.
Read the entire article at the National Geographic.
