Friday, May 08, 2009

University of California Appeals Still Going On

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A bit back, I included a post on the dismissal of a discrimination suit that was filed against the University of California. The suit cent...

Florida Academic Freedom Bill Dead

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NCSE reports that the Florida bill that would have injected "critical thinking" into the study of evolution in the public schools...
Thursday, May 07, 2009

Our Truly Mixed-Up Judiciary

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Dolan Media is reporting on a court case in which a teacher was found to be in violation of the first amendment for calling creationism ...

The Influence of High School Biology

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UPI has a story indicating that how evolution is taught in high school biology has a large impact on how a student views it thereafter. As ...
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The Feet of H. floresiensis

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John Noble Wilford has an article in tech-archive.net (yes, I know he writes for the New York Times) on the feet of Homo floresiensis , fou...

Tom Tancredo and Chris Matthews on Evolution

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Chris Matthews interviews Tom Tancredo on Hardball and Tancredo gets nearly everything wrong. Matthews starts out by stating the position th...
Wednesday, May 06, 2009

I ah believe, ahem, in uuhhh uhhh well, I believe in...

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Little Green Footballs points us toward a Chris Matthews interview with Mike Pence, Republican representative from Indiana in which Matthew...
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Melanie Phillips Confuses ID and Creationism

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And not in the usual sense. Her article in the Spectator takes great pains to separate the two viewpoints, creationism and ID. She writes...
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Monday, May 04, 2009

Oops, Forgot About This One...

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I forgot that Stephen Meyer published a paper in The Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington called The Origin of Biological In...

The First European

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An article by Steve Connor of the Independent documents the attempts to put flesh on a 35 ky BP hominid from Carpathia. According to the a...
Saturday, May 02, 2009

Meanwhile, in Oklahoma...

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Little Green Footballs points out that the Tulsa County Republican Convention has enacted, as part of their platform the teaching of creatio...

The Swine Flu and Evolution

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An article in LiveScience states that if you want evidence of evolution, you need not look any further than the swine flu. As Robert Roy B...
Friday, May 01, 2009

McLeroy Confirmation Has Been Blocked!

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According to Kate Alexander of the Austin American-Statesman, the confirmation of Donald McLeroy as the chairman of the Texas State Board of...

Holdren: Texas standards a "Step Backward"

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As reported on the NCSE's page, John Holdren, Barack Obama's chief science advisor, when asked about the Texas Board of Education...

Out of Africa Again

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A story in Foxnews from the AP reports of a study in which it was found that Africans have the most genetic variability of any continental...
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Letter to the Texas SBOE

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Here is the letter I just sent to the Texas State Board of Education: Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing to know if there is a mechanism by...

The Texas Fallout Continues

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Susan McCarthy of the Guardian has an article examining the fallout from the Texas science standards controversy. She suggests that the rum...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

Creation Ministries International Added

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I have added Carl Wieland's organization, Creation Ministries International , to the left side in the list of Science/Faith links.

God Outside the Gaps

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Andrew Brown of the Guardian has a profile of Kenneth Miller called God Outside the Gaps . He writes: It turns out that Miller has exactly...

When Creationists Can't Get Along

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David Nason of The Australian reports on the settlement of a court battle royale, in which young earth creationists Carl Wieland and Ken Ha...