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.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Mammals Not So Extinct After All

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A story out of Wired reports that many mammals that have been traditionally thought to be extinct may not be. Brian Switek writes : In orde...

Complexity Can Evolve Without High Cost

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Was R.A. Fisher wrong? It has always been thought that with complexity comes a general lack of evolutionary adaptability. The consensus ab...
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Sunday, September 26, 2010

Neandertals as Advanced as Early Modern Humans?

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This is something that I have thought for years. In contrast to the preceding story that I posted, it has been advanced that Neandertals we...
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Volcanoes Responsible for Neandertal Extinction?

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National Geographic has picked up a story in which it is argued that the European populations of Neandertals became extinct because of the e...
Saturday, September 25, 2010

British Humanists Want Legal Action to Keep Creationism Out of the Classroom

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The British Humanist Association is concerned that, while the government has pledged that there will be no creationism in the classrooms, th...

The Lack of Correlation Between Anti-Global Warming Advocates and ID

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As of late, supporters of ID have argued that they have been persecuted for their positions and that the support of such is no different tha...
Friday, September 24, 2010

Science and Religion: Always in "Mortal Combat?"

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Matthew Reicz of the Times Higher Educational Supplement has an interesting article on the conflict between religion and science.He writes:...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Huge Fossil Find in California

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BBC America is reporting on a find in California that will be a boon for researchers in the area. According to the story: The fossil haul ...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Freshwater Documents up at NCSE

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The National Center for Science Education has all of the documents concerning the John Freshwater case up on their site here. It is quite a...
Friday, September 17, 2010

Richard Dawkins' Problem

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It is that none of his opponents seem to be coming to his lectures. As Andrew John in Digital Journal writes : Of his travels in the USA’s...
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Christine O'Donnell: Trouble For Science Education In Delaware?

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New York News and Features has an article on Christine O'Donnell, the woman who surprisingly upset GOP favorite Mike Castle to win the ...
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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Evolution Wars: A Guide to the Debates

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Research and Markets has expanded their holdings to include a new report called Evolution Wars: A Guide to the Debate . If you have access ...

The Creation Museum - Three Years In

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Dennis O'Conner over at HuffPo has a report on Ken Ham's Creation Museum in Kentucky and its three-year anniversary. He writes: H...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

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Sorry that I have posted lightly. I have been focusing on my second editorial for the Center for Faith and Science International, which sho...

Review of I Love Jesus and I Accept Evolution

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Lexis-Nexis is providing a free link (I think) to an American Scientific Affiliation review of the book by Denis Lamoureux called I Love Jes...
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Friday, September 10, 2010

AIG: Evolution: Not Even a Theory

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Usually, what emanates from Answers in Genesis barely passes for logically-constructed arguments. In this new post called Evolution: Not Ev...
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Christopher Hitchens Takes On David Berlinski

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Christopher Hitchens, the outspoken atheist, who is battling esophageal cancer reserved special energy for a debate with the Discovery Insti...
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Wednesday, September 08, 2010

The Perils of "Darwinian" Indoctrination

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Christian NewsWire has a story about the efforts of a filmmaker to show the negative effects of "Darwinism" on the school student...

Center for Faith and Science International

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I have started writing regularly for the Center for Faith and Science International and am adding it to my list of sites on the right hand ...

The ICR Gives Up in Texas

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As reported a few days ago in Panda's Thumb, the Institute For Creation Research has closed its graduate school after being firmly deni...
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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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