Science and Religion: A View from an Evolutionary Creationist

This is a blog detailing the creation/evolution/ID controversy and assorted palaeontological news. I will post news here with running commentary.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Daily Kos Poll Data Faked

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I have used two stories on this site that came from polls done by the Daily Kos. Now it turns out that the company that the Daily Kos used ...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Colin Groves: The Debate About Homo floresiensis Is Over!

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In the Journal of Comparative Human Biology , Colin Groves has done analyses that he claims firmly debunks the idea that the Homo floresiens...
Monday, June 28, 2010

Creationism in Australia: An Update

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The Australian has an article on the teaching of creationism in New South Wales. According to the story: STUDENTS at one NSW school were t...

ICR Loses Suit

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The Institute For Creation Research has lost a suit to the Texas Higher Education Board, which denied the organization's request to gran...
Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Thoughts From Kansas

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I have added Josh Rosenau's site, Thoughts from Kansas , to the blog role. I go to the site regularly and he is often quite insightful ...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010

More Trouble in Northern Ireland

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Sophie Deboick writes for the Guardian that the young earth creation groups in Ireland are creating controversy. In her editorial, Creati...
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New 3.6 Million Year Old A. afarensis Remains

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Science Daily reports that Yohannes Haile-Selassie's team in Ethiopia have found the remains of a 3.6 million year old Australopithecus...
Monday, June 21, 2010

British Biologists on the Offensive

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The Telegraph has a story that follows on the heels of the flap over in Ireland about the museum displays and the school choice debate in...
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Oldest Known Mammalian Tooth Marks

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Science Daily is reporting on the finding of the oldest known tooth marks left by a mammal. They write: The researchers believe the marks w...
Friday, June 18, 2010

CNN on Evolution

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CNN's Wendy Atterbery, who runs an advice column on CNN has a look at the evolution controversy titled I believe in evolution, he doesn...
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Answers in Genesis on the Neandertal Genome

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I missed this a month back. AIG weighed in on the sequencing of the Neandertal Genome here . If you will recall, it was found by Svante Pa...
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Monday, June 14, 2010

Pete Enns and Noah's Flood

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Pete Enns over at BioLogos has an intriguing set of posts on the Noachian flood and its relationship to the flood of Gilgamesh and that of...
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Sunday, June 13, 2010

Jews Found to be a Distinct Ethnic Group

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Two new studies by several researchers have suggested that the children of Abraham really are related. Of the first study, the New York Pos...
Friday, June 11, 2010

And Lo, It Was Hot...

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ScienceDaily is reporting on some research in the Turkana Basin, the area where many early hominid fossils have been found, has been a scor...
Thursday, June 10, 2010

Itadakimasu!

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That's Japanese for "Let's eat!" Taragana is reporting on research done on early hominids to determine what they ate. T...
Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Josh Rosenau Thinks that Southerners are Crazy

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Josh Rosenau at Thoughts from Kansas relays the results of a new poll by Marcos Moulitsas, the runner of the Daily Kos, in which southerner...
Monday, June 07, 2010

Steve Matheson Writes an Open Letter to Stephen Meyer

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Steve Matheson has posted on his blog an open letter to Stephen Meyer following their colloquium/debate at Biola University. Subsequent to...
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Sunday, June 06, 2010

Martin Gardner Has Died

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This is slightly off-topic but it is with sadness that I discovered that Martin Gardner, one of the best science writers in the history of t...
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Saturday, June 05, 2010

Casey Luskin on Ardipithecus

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Casey Luskin thinks that Ardipithecus is "washed up." He writes : In some ways, the career of a missing link mirrors the career of...
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Friday, June 04, 2010

More Trouble for John Freshwater

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The lawyer for John Freshwater, the Ohio teacher accused of teaching creationism in class and branding a student with a cross, has come unde...
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I am a Christian, librarian, palaeoanthropologist, and evolutionary biologist with an all-consuming interest in apologetics and controversies in science and religion.
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