Saturday, August 30, 2008

Sarah Palin and Creationism

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Tom Kizzia of the Anchorage Daily News has an article on Sarah Palin and her support for creationism. He writes: Palin was answering a que...
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Friday, August 29, 2008

More Intellectual Dishonesty, ICR Style

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In late 2005, the ICR concluded an eight year radioisotope study in an effort to support the YEC point of view. This was called R adioisoto...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Neandertal Tools As Good As Those of Early Modern Humans

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Those studying the archaeology of both groups have known this for years. A story in the Independent is now making the public aware of it. ...
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Fort Wayne Man Behind Methodists' Acceptance of Evolution

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And even so, he said he is now at odds with his pastor and his bishop. The story in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette relates the following: ...
Monday, August 25, 2008

Earliest Bipedality at 6 Mya

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A study coming out of SUNY Stony Brook suggests that the earliest form of bipedality arose in hominids around 6 million years ago. The rese...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Texas Education Agency Responds to Chris Comer's Lawsuit

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The TEA has responded to Chris Comer's lawsuit alleging wrongful dismissal from the agency. The Story in the Texas Observer reports: T...
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Early Humans: "The Big Mac Burgers of Their Day."

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Research is going on in an effort to determine what predators would have found early humans tasty. Apparently, the cast is large. Accordin...

Yah, Who Didn't See This Coming

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The frozen Bigfoot body that was touted as being proof of the existence of the creature is a hoax. That came after Searchingforbigfoot.com ...
Monday, August 18, 2008

Intellectual Dishonesty, ICR Style

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I subscribe to the ICR's Acts & Facts to stay abreast of what that side of the debate is saying. In the most recent issue, there ...

Jeff Schloss, Former DI Staff, Reviews Expelled

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Jeff Schloss, a researcher who was, up until 2003 a member of the Discovery Institute, has his own take on the movie Expelled. The review ...
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Saturday, August 16, 2008

Glen Kuban on the Alvis Delk Footprint

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Glen Kuban, the man responsible for demonstrating conclusively that the Paluxy River Tracks purporting to be of humans and dinosaurs in the...
Thursday, August 14, 2008

Meanwhile, In Flat Earth Land...

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Amidst the controversies surrounding modern science, the Flat Earth Society continues undaunted. A story in Foxnews reports: The BBC repor...
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Judge Rules High School Courses Can Be Rejected by Universities

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A federal judge has ruled that the University of California can reject an applicant as insufficiently prepared for college by denying course...
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Human Evolution Olympics

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Foxnews has a little contest about which fossil hominid (or hominin if you are a cladist) would win in olympic competition. Certain hominid...
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

New Books

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Well, Donald Prothero's book Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why it is Important and Kenneth Miller's new book Only a Theory h...
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Harris Poll on Evolution

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Reader Michael correctly points out in answer to my post on Canadians' acceptance of evolution that, here in the US, there is a correlat...
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Friday, August 08, 2008

Neandertal DNA Mapped

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Researchers have mapped the mitochondrial DNA of a Neandertal using a bone from a specimen thought to be 38 000 years old. The Australian.c...
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Support for Freshwater?

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Reader RBH corrects my impression that Mr. Freshwater, the biology teacher that is on the hot seat for allegedly branding a student's ar...
Thursday, August 07, 2008

The Kansas Races Have Ended

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The Lawrence Record reports on the end of the Kansas School Board races here. According to the story: Darwin won. Moderate Kansas State ...
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Canadians More Evolved Than Americans

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A new poll conducted by Angus Reid Strategies has discovered that 58% of polled Canadian citizens accept evolution. Interesting notes from ...
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