Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Abrupt Warming

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In an article that can only be described as peculiar, a study appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences states: ...

A PowerPoint Presentation on the Age of the Universe and the Earth

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A local group that calls themselves GENESTN.ORG has put together a PowerPoint presentation explaining evidence for the age of the universe ...
Monday, June 26, 2006

No More Links From the NYT

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Today begins my boycott of the New York Times . I will neither read it on the web, nor will I ever pick up another copy of it. While it ha...
Wednesday, June 21, 2006

IAP Statement on the Teaching of Evolution

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Here is the link for the statement that I mentioned in the previous post.

"Scientists Urge Evolution Lessons"

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The BBC reports that 67 national science academies have signed a statement urging better education of evolution and natural science. One s...
Friday, June 16, 2006

Radiometric Dating

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I just finished reading Roger Wiens' excellent essay Radiometric Dating: A Christian Perspective . He effectively lays out the case for ...
Sunday, June 11, 2006

More From the Primordial Soup People

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Foxnews reports on new thoughts involving the origin of life. He writes: "Life could have started up f...
Friday, June 09, 2006

Can We Talk?

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For reasons too numerous to mention, my wife Melanie and I are homeschooling our oldest child Marcus. We are using the Sonlight Curriculum ...
Wednesday, June 07, 2006

'No Croc Left Behind'

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I missed this when it came out, but Scott Ott, over at Scrappleface relates the following news item. 'No Croc Left Behind' by Scott ...
Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Day By Day does Evolution again

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Here is another Day By Day cartoon that I found amusing.
Friday, June 02, 2006

Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back to Georgia

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The AP reports that a federal appeals court has returned the Georgia evolution sticker case to the lower court because there was not enough ...

A Disturbing Conversation

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I just had lunch with a friend of mine and his fiancee. He teaches human palaeontology at Texas Tech University, in Lubbock. During our conv...
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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