Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Back to Reading...

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A friend of mine gave me a copy of Darwin Strikes Back: Defending the Science of Intelligent Design by Thomas Woodward, who is a professor ...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Top 10 Evolution Articles

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New Scientist has another list: the Top 10 Evolution Articles . It is a fun list, with complete articles behind every headline. One of the...

Red-Headed Neandertals

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The Telegraph has a story about research into the Neandertal genome that suggest that at least some of them had red hair and even freckles....
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New Book

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Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending have a new book out called The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution . ...
Monday, December 29, 2008

New Scientist Has an Article on Evolution and Unwisely Tackles Religion

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I missed this during the year. New Scientist had an article on the 24 myths and misconceptions regarding evolution. It is separated into ...
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Pleistocene Park Redux

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The idea of resurrecting critters from long ago is picking up interest. A story out of Canwest suggests that genetics has been traveling a...
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Saturday, December 27, 2008

New Studies in Biopoesis

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According to a study out of the University of Montreal, the last common ancestor to all life lived around 3.8 billion years ago. The story ...

Neandertal Discoveries of 2008

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Yahoo News has a list of the top Neandertal discoveries of 2008. The story is fairly short but interesting.

Robert Sibley on "Why Faith Matters."

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Robert Sibley, writing for the Ottawa Citizen asks " Why Faith Matters ." In it, he takes on the new atheism, promulgated by the ...
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Hope that everybody had a Merry Christmas. I will start up again today or tomorrow. No news so far.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Earliest Tool Use at 2 Mya in South Africa

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According to a story in Canada.com researchers out of the University of Toronto, working at the Kuruman Hills in South Africa, have discove...

National Geographic's Top Ten Discoveries of 2008

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This is an interesting list , including dinosaurs, sea creatures and modern fauna. The best one is the "Frog from Hell" that I in...

The Guardian interviews Adnan Oktar

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The Monday issue of the Guardian carries an interview by religious correspondent Riazat Butt with Turkish creationist Adnan Oktar, who writ...
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Richard Dawkins and Steve Jones on the MORI Poll

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See the post below this for more details. Both Richard Dawkins and Steve Jones, also writing in The Guardian , weighed in on the MORI poll...

Poll: 29% of Specialist Science Teachers Support Teaching Creationism

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Great Googlymoogly! The first couple of paragraphs in the story in the Guardian read: Almost three out of ten specialist science teachers ...
Monday, December 22, 2008

Completely Off-Topic: Continuity Error in Star Trek Trailer

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My son Marcus pointed out a continuity error in the new J. J. Abrams Star Trek trailer . The trailer has a young James Tiberius Kirk drivin...
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Sunday, December 21, 2008

Creation Moments II

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The ICR page has an article written by Brian Thomas, a science writer, on why Neanderthal Men Were Modern Men . It is an object lesson on h...
Saturday, December 20, 2008

Marvin Lubenow's Site

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Marvin Lubenow, the author of Bones of Contention , a treatise on the human fossil record that will form the basis of my hopefully soon to b...
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Nuts and Bolts Study Group

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Here is another blog called the Nuts and Bolts Study Group that deals with the same kind of issues that this one does. I believe they come...
Friday, December 19, 2008

A Francisco Ayala Plug for Michael Dowd's Book

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Michael Dowd, who has been nothing but gracious since I questioned his Christology a few posts back, sent me this little blurb by Francisco ...