Thursday, December 31, 2009

More Bad News for Freshwater

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The teacher that was fired from his teaching position in Mount Vernon, Ohio, now has more to overcome in his bid for reinstatement. The Col...
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"Survival of the Kindest?"

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ScienceDaily has a story about research that builds a case that humans are wired to be altruistic and giving. The author writes: In contra...

David Berlinski on PJTV

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Avi Davis, the president of the American Freedom Alliance, has an interview on Pajamas TV with David Berlinski, who is the author of the bo...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

A New Harris Poll on Belief

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A Harris Interactive poll on belief in the United States was released on December 15 of this year. It consisted of a poll of 2303 adults a...

Slightly Off-Topic: "Paging Harrison Bergeron!"

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Only in Berkeley. The East Bay Express has a story on the redesign of the Berkeley High School, in which the school's science budget, ...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

In Search of Noah's Ark or "Goin' On a Snipe Hunt!"

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Randall Price is back in the news . Liberty University's head of the Center for Judaic Studies is halfway through his trek to find Noah...
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Monday, December 28, 2009

The Poisonous Bird

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Out of China comes the discovery of a venomous raptor that may have been ancestral to modern birds. The story , in UPI notes: The turkey-si...

Science Corrects Itself

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A story from the Calgary Herald sheds light on a fossil discovery that was made 85 years ago and how the conclusions about the find were re...

A Tepid Review of Creation

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Betsy Sharkey of the LA Times has a somewhat lukewarm review of Creation, the new film with Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly. She writes...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

Biblical Literalism or "Is That Really What It Says?"

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Daniel Harlow wrote a paper a bit back called Creation According to Genesis: Literary Genre, Cultural Context, Theological Truth . The pape...
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Thursday, December 24, 2009

Merry Christmas!

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I leave you this Christmas with a story from Martin Bell's book The Way of the Wolf: The Gospel in New Images . It is the story of Barr...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Pawlenty Backpeddles on Creationism Stance?

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Tim Pawlenty who, along with Sarah Palin, has indicated a support for the teaching of intelligent design and a disdain for evolution, has ba...
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Whale Suckers

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There is evidence that an ancestor of the baleen whale family may have been a suction feeder. Bridie Smith of The Age has the story : The ...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Happy Homemaking, Homo erectus style

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OneIndia has a story reporting research from the Israeli site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, in which it has been found that either late Homo...
Monday, December 21, 2009

Systematics Done While U Wait

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Science Daily has a report on a new technological innovation that will, according to the story, revolutionize the process of systematics. T...

EDE: Why Students Believe What They Believe

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Marlowe Embree, in a guest post on Steve Martin's page, has uncovered some basic truths that most of us suspected were true all along b...
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Friday, December 18, 2009

The Downside of Dinosaur Fossil Hunting

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The war is on! In what is known as "Jurassic Coast," in southwest England, there is a war going on between professional fossil hu...
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Thursday, December 17, 2009

Off Topic: Close But No Cigar?

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A new exoplanet has been discovered that is the most earth-like planet yet found. It is GJ 1214b. Wired has the story : “If you want to de...
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The Creation/Evolution Debate: A Tale of Two Sides

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Ambassador Kosh once said: "There are three sides to every argument: your side, their side and the truth." A Tad over two weeks a...
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The Washington Times Reviews Mysterious

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That the Washington Times tends to lean toward the right is not unexpected, given that the major daily in Washington, D.C. the Washington P...