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, March 31, 2011

More Trouble for the Good Ship Noah

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It seems that the Ark Encounter is not quite being upfront about some things. Kentucky.com is now reporting that, despite Governor Steve Be...

Amazing Find Rock Evolutionary Theory!!

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According to The Panda's Thumb, a fossil find in pre-Cambrian beds in the Flinders Range in Australia will overturn the theory of evolu...
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Monday, March 28, 2011

Christianity Today on the Ken Ham/Great Homeschool Convention Rucus

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Christianity Today has remarked on the recent disinvite of Ken Ham by the Great Homeschool Convention here . Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra provides ...
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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Idle Question

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I read over at Uncommon Descent that Jonathan Marks doesn't buy common descent based on the genomics. When is the Discovery Institute ...
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Friday, March 25, 2011

The Poisonous Attitude of AiG: Nathan Ham Defends His Father

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Todd Wood points us to a rebuttal of the Great Homeschool Conventions letter by Nathan Ham in defense of his father, Ken Ham. Great Homesc...
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Thursday, March 24, 2011

A Wake Up Call?

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Apparently, a homeschooling association has banned Ken Ham from their upcoming convention for being too intolerant. AiG has its own account...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

UK Minister: “teaching creationism is at odds with scientific fact”

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Michael Gove, Education Secretary in the UK has stated categorically that creationism will not be allowed in the British public schools. Ri...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

First Use of Fire in Europe Later Than Thought

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New Scientist is reporting that examination of the earliest evidence of controlled fire in Europe has pushed it forward in time to around 4...
Friday, March 18, 2011

Gibbons and Siamangs Booted off the Island

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Science Daily has a story about a new Primate phylogenetic tree that has been derived from sequencing 54 genetic regions in 186 species. O...
Thursday, March 17, 2011

Another Species of Homo??

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There is, if you believe the work coming out of Max Planck Institute. According to an article in Der Spiegel: The human family just got a n...
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Sunday, March 13, 2011

Miyagi Prefecture Update

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From FoxNews: Official: Death Toll in Japan Quake 'Likely' to Exceed 10,000 Keep praying. A note about the picture in the story: T...
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Shichigahama

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My parents used to own a summer home in a missionary community on the northeastern coast of Japan on the seven beaches peninsula (Shichigaha...
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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Francis Collins and Karl Giberson at BioLogos on Common Ancestry

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There is a discussion going on at BioLogos between Francis Collins and Karl Giberson about the role of common ancestry in evolutionary theo...
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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Florida Evolution Bill

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A “strengths and weaknesses” bill has been proposed in the Florida statehouse aimed solely at evolution. The Orlando Sentinel reports : A b...

More on the Ark Encounter

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This is not new per se but there are more rumblings about the legality of the Ark project as it pertains to the state of Kentucky. NPR'...
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CFSI Developments

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The Center for Faith and Science International is undergoing a web page makeover, which Rob Zimmer says will go live in the first part of A...

New Background

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I finally got the nerve up to try to change the background. I think it worked. I may adjust it again, now that I know how to do it.
Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Bernard Wood and Terry Harrison on Early Human Origins

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Bernard Wood and Terry Harrison, two of the preeminent scholars in the study of human origins think that we are assimilating too many fossil...
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Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Climatic Conditions of the Ordovician

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A new article in PhysOrg reports on efforts to get a handle on what led to one of the greatest mass extinctions in the planet's history...
Friday, March 04, 2011

Casey Luskin Invokes Need for Tennessee HB 368

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In Evolution News and Views, Casey Luskin has endorsed the need for Tennessee House Bill 368. He writes: Why do we need academic freedom l...
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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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