Sunday, October 25, 2009

Gordon Glover on Alien Intervention

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There is a guest post over at Science and the Sacred by Gordon Glover. It dates back to the beginning of the month and I meant to post ab...
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Ida May Not Be Related to Humans After All

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The Guardian is reporting work being published in Nature suggesting that Ida is not on the line that gave rise to the higher primates. The ...
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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum

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Donna Healy of the AP writes about a museum out in Montana that is giving the Creation Museum in Kentucky a run for its money. From the st...
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Friday, October 23, 2009

...And the Small Ones

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Analysis out of Germany has identified the smallest known dinosaur. An article in the BBC notes: Fruitadens haagarorum, researchers say, i...
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Thursday, October 22, 2009

More on the Burgess Shale.

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After my post on the work that is being done on the Burgess Shale, a reader wrote to accuse me of dishonesty in providing the story. I was ...
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Evolution and Evangelical Theology

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Steve Martin, over at An Evangelical Dialogue on Evolution , has a post about the acceptance of evolution by evangelican theologians. In i...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Cretaceous Extinction: The Smoking Gun?

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Canwest is reporting on research by Sankar Chatterjee, of Texas Tech University, who claims to have found the impact crater that led to the ...

Work at the Burgess Shale Formation

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Siobhan Roberts of Smithsonian.com is reporting on work that is going on at the Burgess Shale formation in Canada. They write: The Burgess...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Money for Footprints

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ABC News of Australia is reporting that a fossil site yielding a trove of dinosaur footprints is getting a financial boost from the governm...
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Darwin's Dilemma Is On!

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The film Darwin's Dilemma , which was originally going to be shown at the California Science Center is now going to be shown at the Univ...
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Yes, but Why Do They Have to Be Evolutionary Biologists?

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NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty has a piece on the problems that the new atheism is creating. Witness this: Last month, atheists marked ...
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Monday, October 19, 2009

More Problems for the Dembski/Marks Paper

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The Metropolis Sample takes the most recent swipe at the Dembski/Marks paper here . The paper is extraordinarily mathematical (imagine that!...

Michael Dowd has Cancer

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Michael Dowd , author of Thank God for Evolution , has cancer. It is apparently of the the very serious kind as he has been given a 50% cha...
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Casey Luskin and Ardipithecus

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Much to my chagrin, I missed this a few weeks back, when Casey Luskin put up an article on the new Ardipithecus remains. Hyperbollically t...
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Students and Evolution

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Steve Martin, over at An Evangelical Dialogue on Evolution , writes about a new series on evolution from the viewpoint of students. The int...
Friday, October 16, 2009

Casey Luskin, Darwin's Dilemma and the First Amendment

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Casey Luskin has a piece on the "brouhaha" that has erupted over the canceled presentation of the ID-promoting film Darwin's ...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

Would You Like Another Helping of Quiche?

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Anthropologist Peter McAllister is arguing that modern males are no match for our ancestors. DNAIndia.com picks up the story from The Scot...

Off Topic: the Ig Nobel Prizes

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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a story on another set of awards that is given out at this time every year, the Ig Nobel awards, which, as ...

On the Origin of Species: The Illustrated Edition

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David Quammen, a science writer who wrote one of the best books on evolution out there, The Song of the Dodo , has published an illustrated,...
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Carl Weiland of CMI on Ardipithecus

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Creation Ministries International's Carl Wieland, a long time member of the old guard of creationists, has an article on the site about...