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7 Totally AWESOME Theories Of Evolution From Scifi

If Ben Stein really wants to convince us all that evolution is a crock, he doesn't need to make a documentary and play semantic games with Richard Dawkins. He just has to sit us down and make us watch this episode of Star Trek: Voyager, where traveling at super-warp speed causes Janeway and Paris to super-evolve into lizards (and make lizard babies.) But it's not just Voyager — science fiction provides a ton of evolution theories that make intelligent design seem downright sensible. More »

5:02 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
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Latest by n/a: @Charlie Jane Anders actually while mutation may not always be positive, evolution -- ie., natural selection -- is always an improvement. It's just that what us humans consider an improvement and what Streptococcus considers an improvement are very different things. more »