Thursday, September 03, 2009

William Reville on Religion and Science

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The Irish Times has a good post by William Reville on the nature of science and what science does to answer questions. In it, he tackles a...

European Hand Axes Almost a Million Years Old

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New dating has revealed that hand axes from two sites in Spain are close to a million years old. Yahoo UK reports : Gary Scott and Luis Gib...

More on the Treasure that is Angola

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Louise Redvers of BBC News has a follow-up report on the new palaeontology work being done in Angola. It is promising: Louis Jacobs is par...
Tuesday, September 01, 2009

"Stupid Things Christians Say."

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Michael Riley of MyCentralJersey.com has some amusing thoughts on the kinds of things that Christians say. Along the way, he hits of my fa...
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Monday, August 31, 2009

Light-Colored Skin a Recent Trait

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The Times Online is reporting research that strongly suggests that light-colored skin, characteristic of northern Europeans, is a recent ge...

Marching Bands and De-evolution

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This could only happen in the United States. Sedalia, Missouri is on the map, in a way that probably nobody foresaw or wished. A Marching ...

'Creationist Zoo' Being Criticized

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Chris Dade of the Digital Journal reports that the 'creationist zoo', owned and operated by husband and wife team Anthony and Chris...

More on the Planet That Can't Exist

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John Johonson Jr. over at the LA Times has a story on the new exoplanet orbiting WASP-18 that explicates a bit more on why the planet is so...
Saturday, August 29, 2009

Casey Luskin Wants You To Learn About Evolution

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Dakota Voice has a story on Casey Luskin in which he implores students to learn about evolution: As students step foot on campus for anothe...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity and Exaptation

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Wired Magazine has an article on science that puts another nail in the coffin of irreducible complexity. The article , by Brandon Keim has ...
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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Tanzania to Preserve Famous Laetoli Australopithecus Tracks

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In 1973, at the site of Laetoli, in Tanzania, the tracks of two hominids, who walked next to a smoldering volcano, were exposed, giving rese...

The Scopes Trial of the 21st Century

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The Lost Angeles Times is reporting that the U.S. Chamber of Congress is attempting to have a trial involving the evidence for global warmin...

A Little Off-Topic But Way Cool

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A planet that falls in the class known as "hot Jupiters" has been discovered orbiting a star 1000 light years away. It is being d...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009

90-million-year-old Crocodile Bones in Manitoba

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The Canadian Press reports on the find of 90 million year old crocodile bones on a river bank in Manitoba. According to the story: A lawye...

Forward Into the Past!

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The idea that birds descended from dinosaurs is now commonplace in the field of palaeontology and has led to the reclassification of birds a...
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Monday, August 24, 2009

Karl Giberson and Darrel Falk: A Plea For the Middle Ground

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Karl Giberson and Darrel Falk state that " We Believe in Evolution—and God ." One might quibble with the title of the piece; one d...
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Josh Rosenau Calls Casey Luskin on the Carpet

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Josh Rosenau of Thoughts from Kansas notes that Casey Luskin's recent apology for misreading Kenneth Miller comes off a bit lacking in ...
Saturday, August 22, 2009

Angola Opens Up

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There is a report that, now that the civil war has ended in Angola, palaeontological research is finally paying off there. Louise Redvers o...
Friday, August 21, 2009

A Brief History of the Discovery Institute

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I missed this one a few years back. In 2006, Roger Downey wrote a column for the Seattle News about the history of the Discovery Institute...
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Appendix Not Vestigial?

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Charles Darwin famously stated that the appendix, that irritating organ that, often, goes bad and has to be removed was a "remnant...
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