Tuesday, October 28, 2008

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Blogging will be extremely light this week. I am playing house dad while my wife looks after her parents, one of whom just had neurosurgery...
Friday, October 24, 2008

The Houston Chronicle: "Board's actions could put students at a disadvantage"

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The Houston Chronicle has an editorial on the Texas School Board and their decisions in hiring six people to head a panel to evaluate the s...
Thursday, October 23, 2008

Pushing Hominids Back in China

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New evidence suggests that homids were present in China as early as 1.7 million years ago. An article in the ThaiIndian relates this, regar...

The Elephant in the Room

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I am posting one more review of Expelled, which is now out on DVD, because the reviewer mentions something missing from the other reviews t...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

If You Are in Vermont...

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There is a performance of " Clarence Darrow's Search For Justice " in the Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, in Burli...
Monday, October 20, 2008

The Lone Palaeontologist on the "A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism" List

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The Discovery Institute is publishing and pushing a list of scientists who dissent from "Darwinism." The tag line reads: “We are...
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More on Tiktaalik

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Little Green Footballs reports on new analyses of Tiktaalik roseae and the characteristics of it that are intermediate, morphologically. I...
Friday, October 17, 2008

Something More to Read

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Reader Arv Edgeworth has just sent me his book Dismantling Evolution Made Easy and has asked me to read it. I won't post the link for ...
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The Creation Museum One Year Later

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According to Ken Ham, the founder of Answers in Genesis and guiding light behind the Petersburg, Kentucky creation museum, success has been ...
Thursday, October 16, 2008

Don McLeroy: Evolution Doesn't Apply to Biology

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UWire is reporting that scientists in Texas continue to be nervous about the upcoming science standards that will take effect early next ye...
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Creationism in Australian Schools: Under the Radar?

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The Fairfax Regional Network is reporting that there is little monitoring of Christian schools as to whether or not they are teaching creat...

Scientists: Both Candidates are Okay

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The AP is reporting that both presidential candidates approach science in a vastly different way than George Bush does. They write: Both p...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Communicating Science

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David Depew, who wrote a truly topflight book called Darwinism Evolving , which traces the history of evolutionary thought, has written a gu...

Between God and Rationality

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Paul Vallely writes in the Statesman that the gulf between scientists on one hand the general public on the other has been growing for year...
Sunday, October 12, 2008

How About Someone that's an Actual Palaeontologist, Please?

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The Discovery Institute has, on its Evolution News blog three more people that have doubts about evolution. One is a sociologist Steven Fu...
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Thursday, October 09, 2008

Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Evolve...

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The Guardian has a tongue-in-cheek article (influenced quite heavily by reading Douglas Adams, I'm sure) on why not continuing to evolv...
Wednesday, October 08, 2008

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Yoko Ono has dropped her lawsuit.

I Suspect This Happens More Often Than We Think.

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An article in the Louisiana Advocate recounts an exchange between their editorial staff and a local pastor is instructive in how these argu...
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Monday, October 06, 2008

More on Texas

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Airtightnoodle, who is a Texas science teacher, has a science blog here . He has lots on the controversy as well as other articles. Looks...
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Friday, October 03, 2008

More on the Texas Standards

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The Houston Chronicle has a slightly different story about the resistance to the Texas Standards. According to the story: "We are her...
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