Friday, July 21, 2006

Glad to meet ya?

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It is now being suggested that Neandertals and modern humans may never have met. That is the crux of a Foxnews story on the subject. The art...
Thursday, July 20, 2006

Australian Nightmares

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Foxnews reports that a group of researchers working out of Queensland have found fossil evidence of remarkable creatures in Australia. The...

Fish changing sex

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The Daily Mail reports that a third of fish are changing sex due to "gender bending" pollution. The story reports: The Environm...

Sorry for the light posting

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Sorry for the light posting. I have been teaching a class and working full-time and it has been draining time-wise.
Thursday, July 13, 2006

Darwin's End

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Jonathan Last, writing for The Weekly Standard, notes that fertility rates are falling at precipitous rates worldwide. He notes, for examp...
Wednesday, July 12, 2006

The Speed of Light and Other Oddities

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Foxnews reports on work by astronomer Michael Murphy, who argues that astronomical constants which were theorized by Albert Einstein may no...
Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Grover Krantz

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The WaPo posts a story about the late anthropologist Grover Krantz and where his bones are currently residing. I was fortunate to spend a ...
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...