Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Drawing the Line

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Benjamin Dowling-Sendor writes for the American School Board Journal on "Drawing the Line Between Science and Religion." I can...
Thursday, March 23, 2006

Update on Lubenow

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I am still plowing through Lubenow's Bones of Contention . So far, there are some trends to report. He systematically: misinterprets f...

The Archbishop of Canterbury weighs in

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The Grey Lady puts out a story in which the Archbishop of Canterbury has come down on the opposite side of ID. NYT login may be necessary. ...

Light Posting

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Sorry the posting has been light. I have been slammed with getting two anthropology courses finished. I will try to do better.
Saturday, March 18, 2006

Dover, the Movie?

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This might be a spoof. One would certainly hope so. Someone apparently thinks that the Dover school board ruling would make powerful cine...
Thursday, March 09, 2006

Yes, we are still evolving

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Nicholas Wade reports in the NYT of research that demonstrates that we are still evolving. This is not really news. We know that tooth siz...
Saturday, March 04, 2006

Oops!

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Sorry, I forgot to link the Kirk Johnson piece on the bill in Utah. Here it is: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/national/28utah.html
Thursday, March 02, 2006

An Uphill Battle Indeed

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Kirk Johnson of the Grey Lady reports on the failure of an "Origins of Life" bill to be passed in the Republican-controlled Utah ...
Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Evolution on Campus

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Nathanael Blake, a columnist on Townhall has written a two-part (so far) column on evolution and evangelicals. Here are the links to Part 1...

Sorry

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Sorry for the lack of posts. I have been slammed at work and my wife pulled a muscle in her back so i have been looking after the kids at n...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Slow Going

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I am on page 33 of Bones of Contention. This is going to take awhile. So far, there has been either a logical error or a factual error on ...

The AAAS Gets Involved

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The American Association for the Advancement of Science is urging mainline denominations to get involved in fighting "policies that un...

A clarification

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The book by Marvin Lubenow, Bones of Contention , was revised in 2004. In the preface, he write that the new edition is "largely rewri...
Monday, February 20, 2006

Bones of Contention

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Following on the heels of OPAP, in a continuing effort to be as mean to myself as possible, I am going to read the creationist classic Bones...
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Thursday, February 16, 2006

Ohio Vote

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It seems that the Ohio Board of Education has decided against the model plan that singled out evolution for critical analysis and suggested ...

Of Pandas and People, Part 3

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Two of the central concepts in understanding descent with modification are analogy and homology. Analogy is where different anatomical struc...
Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Father Jonathan Morris on Foxnews

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Father Jonathan Morris, On Foxnews tackles the ID issue in decidedly antagonistic tone. He writes: Unlike thinkers of ages past, who inter...

Ohio Reverses its Stance on ID

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It seems that the Ohio Board of Education is rethinking its stance on the teaching of ID in classrooms. As the NYT article (free subscript...
Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Darwin Day at Tennessee

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Darwin Day has come and gone and was a rousing success. Dr. Tim Berra spoke on Charles Darwin Thursday Night and then his Australian projec...
Thursday, February 09, 2006

Of Pandas and People, Part 2

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This is part 2 of my short review of the abyssmal book Of Pandas and People , the preferred textbook of the Discovery Institute. We'll ...
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