Friday, May 28, 2010

Todd Wood and the Neandertal Genome

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Todd Wood has written a post on the Neandertal genome and what it means for the origins of modern humans. His post is called the Neandertal...
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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Sinn Fein has Responded to the Culture Minister

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In lightning fashion, Sinn Fein, the political arm of the IRA, has responded to the letter by Nelson McCausland urging the Ulster Museum to...

Why Politics and Science Don't Mix

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A royal row is brewing over in Ireland where the Culture Minister, Nelson McCausland, has written a letter to the Ulster Museum encouraging ...
Monday, May 24, 2010

Jerry Coyne on Religious America

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Jerry Coyne wonders: Do religious Americans accept evolution? He writes: Well, now I’ve seen it all. There are many ways that accommoda...
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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Steve Matheson Fires Back

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Steve has posted a response to the Discovery Institute's claim that he admitted design was the best alternative. It is here . One of ...
Friday, May 21, 2010

Discovery Institute Claims Victory

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The Discovery Institute is claiming victory in the recent symposium at Biola on May 14, in which Stephen Meyer faced his critics. In a post...
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Hominid Discoveries: Google Earth Helps Out

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Apparently, subsequent to the recent discovery of Australopithecus sediba , Lee Berger used Google Earth to help map undiscovered caves in t...

Josh Rosenau Ponders on Todd Wood

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Josh Rosenau has a long piece over at Thoughts from Kansas in which he examines Todd Wood's creationism and response to the new BIO-Com...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Mark Souder's Resignation

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Congressman Mark Souder has resigned. Souder was a large supporter of abstinence education and conservative values. The problem: he was al...

New Early Reptile Identified

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A find that was originally thought to be an early dinosaur has now been identified as an early reptile. A University of California Santa Bar...
Monday, May 17, 2010

David Klinghoffer: Signature of Controvery

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David Klinghoffer has taken it upon himself to defend Signature in the Cell , the book by Stephen Meyer on Intelligent Design. In a new onl...
Sunday, May 16, 2010

Douglas Theobald and Universal Common Ancestry

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Douglas Theobald has written a technical paper on a test for universal common ancestry. The text of the paper is posted at Panda's Thu...
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Friday, May 14, 2010

A Review of BIO-Complexity

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Bounded Science reviews the new BIO-Complexity journal and its guidelines. He finds much wanting: As long as scientists reject ID as supe...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Updates on the John Freshwater Case

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Panda's Thumb updates us on the continuing John Freshwater case in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Freshwater, if you remember, has been accused o...
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X-Ray Images of Archaeopteryx Show Original Chemistry

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In the "Way Cool" department, bright x-ray images of Archaeopteryx have revealed that part of the original bone chemistry still ex...
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Pete Enns on the Creation Stories of Genesis

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Pete Enns has an excellent series on the creation stories in Genesis over at BioLogos. The first of these is here . He has since expanded ...
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Two New Articles From Science and a Walk Through Modern Human Origins

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Science Magazine is providing two new articles about the Neandertal genome to all interested parties. The articles, along with a bit of bac...
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New Paper at BIO-Complexity

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A new paper at BIO-Complexity is up. It is called " Reductive Evolution Can Prevent Populations from Taking Simple Adaptive Paths to ...
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Monday, May 10, 2010

More on the Neandertal/Modern Link

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The Independent has an article on the Neandertal/modern human link, called Making Woopee with Neandertals . Steve Connor writes: The latest ...
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Neandertal, Early Modern Hybridization

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The Telegraph has a story about research indicating a shared history between Neandertals and early modern humans. This story appeared a fe...