Monday, March 31, 2008

Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed by an Asteroid?

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Well, I guess there is no reason that it couldn't have been done this way. Foxnews is reporting on a clay tablet that dates to around ...

Obama on Evolution

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Barack Obama was in York, Pennsylvania and was asked by an interviewer for the York Daily Record what he thought about the evolution debate....

Creationism in Louisiana

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The Times-Picayune's James Gill writes that creationism has descended on Lousiana. According to Gill: Now it has painted on a new fac...
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Thursday, March 27, 2008

1.3 Million Year Old Humans in Spain

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Foxnews is reporting the discovery of a partial mandible at the Spanish site of Atapuerca is 1.3 million years old this is being lumped in ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Bipedalism at 6 Million Years Ago

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Bill Jungers and Brian Richmond write that the femur from the 6 my old Orrorin tugenensis reflects bipedality. In a story in Science Dail...

Expelled Gaining Interest

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Businesswire notes that the Expelled controversy is the top issue in the blogosphere . Uncommon Descent tells that Richard Dawkins applied...

Gatecrashing Expelled?

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This is nothing short of astounding!!! Apparently, PZ Meyers, the palaeontologist at the University of Minnesota, was barred from watching ...
Monday, March 24, 2008

Flores, the Debate Rages On!

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PopSci has posted a story about the Flores "hobbits" (provisionally Homo floresiensis ).  The drift seems to be heading away from...
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Thursday, March 20, 2008

Is America Anti-Intellectual? Not so Fast!

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A bit back, I blogged about Susan Jacoby's take on anti-intellectualism. She has written a book on the subject entitled The Age of Unr...

Didn't We Already Know This?

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A new study by Michael Schillaci indicates that, while it is known that there was a modern human migration out of Africa around 50 kya, ther...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Did Neandertals Drift Away?

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Tim Weaver has concluded that Neandertals evolved in different direction from modern human precursors because of nothing more than genetic...

No Quarrel in New Mexico

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The online version of the Albuquerque Journal has an article about the new Superintendent of Schools for the city. The superintendent-desi...

Homo floresiensis Again!

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In a press release , George Washington University researchers have concluded the the remains from the island of Flores represent a new speci...
Friday, March 14, 2008

The Persistent Rep. Storms

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Rhonda Storms has continued her campaign to get the Academic Freedom Act heard. TampaBay Online has this to say: On Wednesday, Storms and ...

More Small-Bodied Hominids from Indonesia

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The Public Library of Science journal PLosOne has posted an article about the discovery of more small hominids from the island of Palau , ...
Thursday, March 13, 2008

Stein Puts Weight Behind Florida Legislation

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The Palm Beach Post reports that actor Ben Stein, largely responsible for the movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed , has voiced his supp...
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Yet Another Book to Read!!

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The Gatehouse News Service has a story of another book on faith and science by a physics professor at Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, M...

Mikal Heller and ID

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Mikal Heller, cosmologist and Catholic Priest, has won the Templeton Award for "Progress Toward Research or Discoveries About Spiritua...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

A Neandertal Site in the North Sea

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The Independent has a report of a discovery of a huge Neandertal site 8 miles off the coast in the North Sea. This would have corresponded...

The Daily Texan Watches "10,000 B.C."

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...and they are not amused. In an article titled " 10,000 B.ull C.rap ," Alex Regnery and Robert Rich have great fun with it: I f...