Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Jeffrey Schwartz: Darwin's theory not evolved enough

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Pitt anthropologist Jeffrey Schwartz is the subject of an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Schwartz has always been somewhat of a mav...
Thursday, May 25, 2006

Intelligent Judging

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George Annas writes an article for the New England Journal of Medicine called "Intelligent judging--evolution in the classroom and th...
Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Genetics, Ya Gotta Love It!!

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That last two weeks have been somewhat hellish for the Kidder family. Two weeks ago, during a routine 4-year-old check up, our pediatrician ...
Thursday, May 18, 2006

Not Quite a Clean Break

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Two news outlets, the WaPo and the BBC, report on new studies involving the ape-human split. According to the story, new DNA analysis indica...
Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Tattersall's Take on the Road to Humanity

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Writing in the journal Nature , Ian Tattersall reviews a new book by Ann Gibbons, called The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest ...
Friday, May 12, 2006

"Evolution's Bottom Line"

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Holden Thorp in an op-ed for the NYT writes of the far-reaching consequences of evolutionary theory. Two things leap off the page. One ad...

Evolution: the Lighter Side

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Scott Feschuk writes for MacCleans that Evolution Theory Always Comes Back to Van Halen . An example: Item: a massive star that exploded so...
Wednesday, May 03, 2006

A Case in Point

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Back in a previous post, I mentioned an article by Dick Fischer titled Young-earth creationism: a literal mistake . In it, he noted, Why h...
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Monday, May 01, 2006

Answers in Creation web site

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I have come across a huge web site called Answers in Creation . The self-proclaimed viewpoint is as follows: The purpose of this index is t...
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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