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Charles Evolution

Blowing superstition to smithereens!

About Me

I'm a writer, philosopher, and a college writing and philosophy instructor in Portland, Oregon.
I'm not descended from chimpanzees, but I am their cousin, and so are you,
whether you like it or not.
So, I've co-authored this pro-evolution book called The Top 10 Myths about Evolution .
Click the monkey if you wanna check out more.
The book is available at Amazon.com for only $11.90,
at Amazon Canada for only $10.95,
and at Amazon UK for only £6.74.
I like "myth busting" and generally hacking away at pseudoscience, creationism,
intelligent design, paranormal claims, and other forms of ridiculous hoodoo shmoodoo.
You can visit my website to find out more about me.
Read an interview with me and my co-author at Skepchick Magazine.
It's in three parts.
Part1
Part2
Part3
Here's a link to an article I co-wrote for Skeptical Inquirer magazine called
Getting the Monkey off Darwin's Back: Four Common Myths about Evolution.
Here's a PDF of a short article I co-wrote for Playboy, called
Four Myths about Darwin's Theory: And Why They Are Wrong.
Here's another PDF of an article I co-wrote for The Writer Magazine called
5 Tips For Writing Popular Science.
And here's a Feature article I wrote for The Secular Web called
Five Bad Evolutionary Designs
I was a keynote speaker at the Center for Inquiry-Florida conference in
St. Petersburg, Florida, April 20-22, 2007.
My presentation was titled Quashing the Myth: Evolution is Immoral.
Other speakers included Victor J. Stenger, author of the bestseller
God: the Failed Hypothesis , psychology professor Elaine M. Hull, and others.____________________________________________________________ __________________________
Some Suggested Online Reading:
Paul Kurtz: The Ethics of Humanism Without Religion
Massimo Pigliucci: Once Again, Science Explains Religion
Tom Flynn: Matthew vs. Luke: Whoever Wins, Coherence Loses
Norm R. Allen Jr: Black Non-Theists: Coming Out
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Some Links to Cool Websites:
The Secular Web
National Center for Science Education
Defending the Teaching of Evolution in Public Schools
James Randi Educational Foundation
An Educational Resource on the Paranormal, Pseudoscientific, and the Supernatural
SkepticWiki
The Encyclopedia of Skepticism, Science and Reason
The Rational Response Squad
The Skeptic's Dictionary
A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
"Your Escape to Reality"

My Interests



skepticism, all around debunking, rational thinking, being an inquiring mind, writing, African and Caribbean music, playing percussion instruments, making my own chow mein, reading about explorers and expeditioners.

Come join the discussion of The Top 10 Myths about Evolution at
The Rational Atheist Book Club

I'd like to meet:


Thomas Henry Huxley. Also known as "Darwin's bulldog" for his vigorous and outspoken support of Darwin's idea. Too bad he's dead. Where's the wayback machine when you need one? They don't make sideburns like those anymore!

Kanzi the Bonobo Chimpanzee. The ape at the brink of the human mind. He communicates using a sort of keyboard with symbols. Quite a smart fellow. Click the pic to see more photos of Kanzi.

My evil twin. Now THAT would be weird.

Music:

The Clash , Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros , Desmond Decker , Ska Cubano , The Jolly Boys , Lord Kitchener , Lou Reed , The Pogues , King Sunny Ade , E. T. Mensah , Umm Kulthum , The Ramones , Lee Scratch Perry , Oliver Mtukudzi , Billy Bragg , Fela Kuti , Captain Beefheart ,Woody Guthrie , George Clinton and P-Funk ....
Notes on the song now playing: Kaa No Wa is a traditional song of the Twi people (Ghana). Here it's played by E.T. Mensah and the Tempos Dance Band with some added Western instruments (trumpet, electric bass, electric guitar). This was recorded in the 1950s.

Movies:

Taking out superstition one shot at a time

Add to My Profile | More Videos Charles spies a dangerous superstition lurking
in the field, and he blows it to smithereens

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The size of the Sun and our planets We are very, very small

Books:

Non-fiction: The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, Breaking the Spell by Daniel Dennett, The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore, Touching the Void by Joe Simpson, Science Friction by Michael Shermer, Free Thinkers by Susan Jacoby, Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson, The Case for Mars by Robert Zubrin, The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst by Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall, Voyage of the Manteno by John Haslett.

My Blog

My new banners

Feel free to use any of these five banners.......
Posted by Charles Evolution on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:45:00 PST

The Top 10 Myths about Evolution--A Video Preview

Thanks to 4article1 for putting together this nice video preview of my book. ...
Posted by Charles Evolution on Thu, 08 May 2008 11:29:00 PST

Why Do People Laught at Creationists? (part 22)

Why Do People Laught at Creationists? (part 22)Ben Stein gets it good in this one....
Posted by Charles Evolution on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:40:00 PST

Science, evolution, and creation: Ali G vs Kent Hovind

Science, evolution, and creation: Ali G vs Kent HovindThis is just too hilarious...
Posted by Charles Evolution on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:33:00 PST

Teacher Expelled over Religion

Teacher Expelled over ReligionA few videos are available at the National Center for Science Education's YouTube page...
Posted by Charles Evolution on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:08:00 PST

Jesus in My School

Jesus in My SchoolA short vid by the National Center for Science Education...
Posted by Charles Evolution on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:36:00 PST

Crash an Intelligent Design Poll

You know how we all love to screw up online polls & here's another one. Scroll down to just below "What others are saying", on the left, where the poll question is: "Do you think the theory of Intel...
Posted by Charles Evolution on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:58:00 PST

Teach the Controversy

Excerpt from  The Top 10 Myths about Evolution, Myth 9:"Intelligent Design is Science." What Controversy? A clever move by ID proponents is to argue that all they want to do is simply 'teach th...
Posted by Charles Evolution on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:15:00 PST

Expelled Exposed

Expelled Exposed, a new website by the National Center for Science Education.Expelled Exposed offers a detailed look at the Ben Stein movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. We'll show you why this m...
Posted by Charles Evolution on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:58:00 PST

Top 10 Myths about Evolution--Sample Chapter

You can read the Introduction and a Sample Chapter to The Top 10 Myths about Evolution, by Cameron M. Smith and Charles Sullivan (aka Charles Evolution).Click this link to read (this is a PDF file)....
Posted by Charles Evolution on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:34:00 PST