Science and Religion: A View from an Evolutionary Creationist

This is a blog detailing the creation/evolution/ID controversy and assorted palaeontological news. I will post news here with running commentary.

Monday, January 23, 2006

NYT: When Cosmologies Collide

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The Grey Lady has yet another article on ID, called " When Cosmologies Collide ." This is an article on competing philosophies an...
Thursday, January 19, 2006

The Vatican weighs in again.

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Writing for the Grey Lady, Ian Fisher and Cornelia Dean note an article published in L'Osservatore, the official Vatican newspaper whic...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

As goes Dover, so goes the rest of the world?

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Catherine Candisky writes for the Columbia Dispatch that the Ohio State Board of Education narrowly (9-8) retained state guidelines that, c...
Friday, January 13, 2006

Not even in a philosophy class...

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The New York Times has reported that a law suit has been filed on behalf of 11 parents of students of Frazier Mountain High School in Lebec...
Wednesday, January 11, 2006

The Discovery Institute says it has been misinterpreted.

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The Discovery Institute has claimed that its aims in the Wedge document have been misinterpreted and that fear of a coming theocracy are mis...
Monday, January 09, 2006

More from the WaPo

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Alan Cutler writes on " The War That Wasn't ." This article, which is long on assertions and short on citations, takes the poi...
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Sunday, January 08, 2006

Richard Dawkins Redux

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Another article on Richard Dawkins here . One particularly chilling quote: " It's time to question the abuse of childhood innocenc...
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Friday, January 06, 2006

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My friend Jon Reid relates a story about a conversation that he had with his children while driving them to school, in which his son tells h...
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Catching up Part 3: Walter R. Thorson addresses "Natural Theology."

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The third article, Walter Thorson's Naturalism and design in biology: is intelligent dialogue possible? takes the view that ID, when vi...
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Catching up Part 2: Del Ratzsch reminds us...

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In his article Design: what scientific difference could it make? Del Ratzsch reminds us of several things. First, in an echo of Van Till, h...

Catching Up

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In the pages of Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith , the journal of the American Scientific Affiliation, several interesting articl...
Tuesday, January 03, 2006

14th Amendment

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My esteemed friend, Will Walsh, reminds me that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution extends the Bill of Rights down to the state and muni...
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Friday, December 30, 2005

On the other hand...

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Boris Shpungin, a writer for the Christian Underground, a group that has a reputation for taking Christianity to the streets, has stated su...
Thursday, December 29, 2005

Jeb Bush weighs in

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This is as bad as it gets. A story in NewsMax paints Jeb Bush in a very bad light, scientifically: Bush said last week he did not think Da...

As goes Dover, so goes the rest of the world?

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John Witte, Jr. reminds us in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the ruling in Dover is very narrow.
Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Battle Lines are Drawn

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According to an article in the WaPo, natural history museums across the country are gearing up for the coming debate with ID by giving the...
Friday, December 23, 2005

Kenneth Miller on ID

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Going back a few months, Kenneth Miller , the Brown University molecular biologist has a short, insightful article on the Cobb County evolut...

"Intelligent Design Derailed"

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A gleeful editorial has appeared in the New York Times (hereafter referred to as "the Gray Lady") lauding the Kitzmiller decision....
Thursday, December 22, 2005

Richard Dawkins in Salon.com

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Back in April, Salon posted an interview of Richard Dawkins, who is, perhaps correctly, described by the interviewer (also Gordy Slack) as b...

Gordy Slack article on Salon.com

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Gordy Black has written a piece for Salon.com on the Dover decision. He does not start the article promisingly, referring to the "const...
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I am a Christian, librarian, palaeoanthropologist, and evolutionary biologist with an all-consuming interest in apologetics and controversies in science and religion.
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