Wednesday, November 29, 2006

William Dembski at the Panda's Thumb

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The Panda's Thumb relates an exchange with William Dembski in which he is asked to operationalize ID in terms of probability calculatio...
Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Origins of Life

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Although it is not a subject that evolutionary theory can address, origin of life questions are fascinating. In a short article appearing ...
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006

A View From the Jerusalem Post

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Natan Slifkin wonders where all the Jews are that oppose ID? In a November 16 article for the Jerusalem Post (subscription required), he l...
Monday, November 20, 2006

Ah, kids will be kids.

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This amusing story showed up in the WaPo today.
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Friday, November 17, 2006

Neandertal DNA part II

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The issue of Science has arrived with the stories involving the study of the Neandertal DNA. The new test, called "metagenomics,...
Thursday, November 16, 2006

Neandertal DNA

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According to a report in the WaPo, a new genetic test may unravel the mystery behind the Neandertal DNA code. The story begins: Unleashing...
Monday, November 13, 2006

Set Your VCR's (Or TiVo's or whatever)

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Nova is doing a story on bipedalism, focusing on a family in Turkey that walks quadrupedally. The show will air tomorrow night, Nov. 14 at...
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Sunday, November 12, 2006

Cultural History Washing Away

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Foxnews reports that many archaeological sites are falling prey to "global warming." The reports suggests that climate changes ...
Friday, November 10, 2006

Dolphins and Legs

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And in case you missed this, Japanese fishermen caught a dolphin with a vestigial pair of limbs. As the article points out: Fossil remains...

Australopithecine Diet

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Foxnews reports that robust australopithecines may have had a more varied diet than was originally thought. According to the article, if ...

Sorry for the light posts

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I have started a new job at ORNL and am settling in. I will get back into the swing of things shortly.
Thursday, October 19, 2006

Compatabilism and Libertarianism

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David Siemens thinks J.P. Moreland is wrong. Moreland argues the human mind is part of nature and is endowed with libertarian capacities, s...
Wednesday, October 18, 2006

The notion of complementarity

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I have always sort of axiomatically taken it that science exists to describe the natural world and cannot resort to supernatural explanation...
Monday, October 16, 2006

Science quotes

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I am preparing for my second forum on ID and theistic evolution. The first one went well and one of the attendants said she will try to fil...
Sunday, October 08, 2006

Foxnews Page

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Fox News has divided its science section into various categories, one of which is " Evolution and Paleontology " and is devoted t...
Wednesday, October 04, 2006

SEFORA

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The recent problems that the Republican party has had with science has not gone unnoticed. Scientists and Engineers for America is a new o...
Monday, October 02, 2006

Winds of Change

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Blogging might be a bit funny over the next few weeks. I have accepted a professional position in the library at Oak Ridge National Laborat...
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Time Magazine

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Time Magazine is doing an issue on "What Makes Us Human?" CNN has a short blurb about it. I intend to pick the issue up and hav...

A public forum on evolution and ID

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I have been asked to participate in a public forum at the Baptist Student Union here at UT on October 10, 17, and 24 with a retired physicis...
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Flores again

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An article has appeared in the September 5 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2006, vol. 103(36): 13421-13426) b...