Monday, June 30, 2008

Your Inner Fish and the Elbow Joint

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I am on chapter 3 of Neil Shubin's book Your Inner Fish . The writing is interesting and engaging, but I came across one peculiar secti...

Academic Freedom Bills: a Test Case

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Academic freedom legislation has been tested in New Zealand. The story in Stuff.co.nz outlines the problem thus: Focus on the Family has s...
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On the Heels of Tiktaalik!

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The fossil of the most primitive 4-legged creature has been found at a depth of 365 million years, which is around the same time as Tiktaali...
Saturday, June 28, 2008

A Review of Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds

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I wrote a review of Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds a few years back but never got around to publishing it anywhere. Here it is. The...

Jindal Signs Bill

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Bobby Jindal signed the Academic Freedom Act in Louisiana yesterday. The blog at nola.com reports this: Jindal ignored those calling for a...
Friday, June 27, 2008

Parts 3-5 of Gordon Glover's Series on Education

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Gordon Glover has posted the third, fourth and fifth video in his series on education over at Beyond the Firmament . These are very informa...

Slow Friday

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There doesn't seem to be much going on today in the world of evolution and creation. There are quite a few reviews around of Expelled! ...
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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Neandertals Were Smarter than Most People Think

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Science Daily has an article chronicling the excavations at Pulborough, in West Sussex, which shed light on the life ways of Britain's ...

A Famous Namesake

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The Charleston Post and Courier has an article on Charles Darwin. Not THE Charles Darwin, but rather a distant relative, who lives in Char...

"Teach the Controversy" at the Boston Globe

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Brainiac at the Boston Globe has a post on the history of the phrase "Teach the Controversy." It is also a plug for the Amorphia...

Rights for Apes

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Meanwhile, across the pond, the Spanish Parliament has passed a resolution extending basic human rights to our nearest evolutionary relative...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Douglas Hayworth on Teaching Evolution in Sunday School

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Douglas Hayworth has a guest post over at Steve Martin's site, An Evangelical Dialogue on Evolution. It is on teaching evolution in Su...
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Reflections on a Bad Science Teacher

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There is a postscript in the Columbus Dispatch on the fired science teacher, John Freshwater, who burned the cross into the arm of a studen...
Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Clashing Cultures on William Dembski's Post

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Clashing Cultures has a post on the Dembski diatribe attacking theistic evolutionists that is smack on the money. He writes: ID raises int...

William Dembski Takes on Theistic Evolution

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Much ballyhoo has been raised about William Dembski's post on his blog Uncommon Descent that rails against theistic evolution. It is t...
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"What Can Science Learn from Google?"

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Now that is a terrifying question. Chris Anderson, The author of a particularly silly story titled "The End of Theory" in Wired ...
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Saturday, June 21, 2008

Science Teacher Fired

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Before it came to this end, this story made it to Foxnews and CNN, from which this article comes. Here is the salient part: The Mount Ver...
Friday, June 20, 2008

New Dinosaur Fossil Site

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The BLM has found a huge cache of dinosaur bones, trees and fossilized clams has been found. The story notes: The mix of dinosaurs, trees a...

Kenneth Miller on the Steven Colbert Report

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Kenneth Miller showed up on the Colbert Report on June 16. The episode can be seen here .

Open Letter from the Louisiana Coalition for Science

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The Louisiana Coalition for Science has written an open letter to Governor Bobby Jindal about SB 733. They write: Since you hold a biology...
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