talk.origins

talk.origins is an Usenet discussion forum concerning the origins of life, and evolution. The first post to talk.origins was a starter post by Mark Horton, dated 5th September 1986 http://groups.google.com/groups?q=group:talk.origins&start=30&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=9&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=31&as_maxm=9&as_maxy=1986&selm=2518%40cbosgd.UUCP&rnum=38. In the early 1990s, a number of FAQs on various topics were being periodically posted to the newsgroup. In 1994, Brett J. Vickers established an anonymous FTP site to host the collected FAQs of the newsgroup. In 1995, Vickers started the TalkOrigins Archive web site as another means of hosting the talk.origins FAQs. It maintains an extensive FAQ on evolutionary biology topics, with the aim of representing the views of mainstream science. It has spawned other websites, notably TalkDesign "a response to the intelligent design movement", Evowiki, and the Panda's Thumb weblog. The group receives a lot of trolling from Christian fundamentalists.

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