Friday, April 28, 2006

Discovery Institute Scrambling

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The Seattle Times (hometown newspaper for the Discovery Institute) reports that things are not well after Dover. "Dover is a disaster...
Tuesday, April 25, 2006

How Evolutionary Biologists Reconstruct History

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Robert Cooper, writing a bit back for the American Biology Teacher (2004) makes a few interesting observations regarding how the predictive...

A funny cartoon courtesy of Chris Muir

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Chris Muir does the Day by Day cartoon, which tackles a range of issues from a mostly right perspective. Today, he tackled evolution. Qui...
Friday, April 21, 2006

Scientific Illiteracy

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Liza Gross of the Public Library of Science has written a piece entitled Scientific Literacy an the Partisan Takeover of Biology. Largely a...
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Wednesday, April 19, 2006

No Free Lunch Again

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Shortly after William Dembski unleashed No Free Lunch on the world, H. Allen Orr, biology professor at the University of Rochester, wrote a...
Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Ominous News from Canada

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The Journal Nature reports that a researcher seeking to address the question of Intelligent Design belief among Canadian citizens has had hi...
Monday, April 17, 2006

A New Find in the Middle Awash

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A new set of finds of Australopithecus anamensis in the Middle Awash River region have filled in some gaps in the evolutionary sequence of ...
Thursday, April 13, 2006

Catching up again: Clarence Menninga and Apparent Age

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I am digging into the past almost twenty years for an article on the creationist doctrine of "apparent age" because it seems that ...

A Voice for Evolution as Science

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Once upon a time (1992) the American Scientific Evolution tackled the question of evolution in an official way . Although it doesn't ac...
Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Bill Nye, the Science Guy!

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Bill! Bill! Bill! Now we will enter our (reverb)Blog of Science! Bill Nye spoke at McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas. As Tribune...
Tuesday, April 11, 2006

WAY off topic!!

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Father Jonathan Morris has written a wonderful piece in Foxnews about the "Gospel of Judas." He uses as his springboard, an exe...
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"Taking Darwin and Creation Seriously"

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Michael Roberts, writing for the American Scientific Affiliation , tackles the seeming contradictions in Genesis and evolutionary theory in ...
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Monday, April 10, 2006

More Catching Up

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In 2002, William Dembski wrote the book No Free Lunch , which he subtitled Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased Without Intelligence...
Thursday, April 06, 2006

"Arctic fossils mark move to land"

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The BBC has an article on some new finds in the Artic that "blurs the distinction between two forms of life - between an animal that l...

Lubenow again

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I have picked up Lubenow again, after a week and a half break. I think my blood pressure had gone back down enough. I have read twenty pag...
Wednesday, April 05, 2006

ID in its infancy?

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Dylan Lovan of the AP notes that William Dembski, one of the architects of the current ID initiative states that ID is in its infancy. None...
Monday, April 03, 2006

Media Coverage of "Intelligent Design"

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Jason Rosenhouse and Glenn Branch, writing in the March 2006 issue of BioScience (sorry, once again only accessible by subscription) have ...
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. ...