Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Yup, They Asked It

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Youtube has a video of the Miss America 2011 contestants in which they are asked whether or not evolution should be taught in public school...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

William Dembski on Michele Bachmann

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William Dembski has written a post for Uncommon Descent on the candidacy of Michele Bachman and what her take on science would be. He is t...
Saturday, June 25, 2011

Population Growth Spurring Evolution?

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The Daily Galaxy is reporting on some work by John Hawks at U of Wisconsin, Madison on the rate of evolutionary change in humans. They write...

Cartoon on Evolution

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My friend Jon sent me this link to this long but involving cartoon on why evolutionary theory is good science. It is done by Darryl Cunnin...
Friday, June 24, 2011

Expelled! Up for Sale

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Via the Panda's Thumb we learn that the company Premise Media, the producers and distributors of Expelled! has gone belly up and the fil...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

Michele Bachmann: Schools Should Teach ID

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The GOP came closer to making the teaching of intelligent design and the promotion of “academic freedom” a plank of their platform with the ...
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

New Dating for Neandertal Remains

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I wrote this post a month back and, for some reason, it never got put up. Not sure why. The journal Science has a blurb by Michael Balter ...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Answers in Genesis and Unicorns

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I would never have come across this post if it hadn't been for Barefoot and Progressive. Here is Answers in Genesis’ exposition on the...
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Monday, June 20, 2011

Peter Ungar: Homo erectus Ate More Diverse Things than Homo habilis

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University of Arkansas researcher Peter Ungar has found evidence that the diet of Homo erectus was more variable than that of Homo habilis, ...

Next BioLogos Post is Up

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Part two of the Dispersal of the Australopithecines is up over at BioLogos. This covers the south African forms as well as the extinction...
Saturday, June 18, 2011

New Child's Skull Can Cast Light on Key Evolutionary Period

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A child's skull discovered last year in Morocco may provide much needed insight to the evolution of modern humans in north Africa. UPI ...
Friday, June 17, 2011

More Evidence For Archaic Homo sapiens/Modern Homo sapiens Interbreeding

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The New Scientist has an article on more evidence that modern Homo sapiens and archaic Homo sapiens may have interbred and that this inte...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

Modern Humans Extinction-Proof?

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Darren Curnoe is in the news again. Last year, he coined a new species at the boundary of late Australopithecus /early Homo , named Homo ga...
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Found a New Blog

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It looks like I don't have to question the papers that come out of Answers in Genesis. Questioning Answers in Genesis will answer all...
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New BioLogos Post Is Up

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The next BioLogos post on the Dispersal of the Australopithecines is up. As always, comments are welcome both there and here.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Earth Magazine: “Creationism creeps into mainstream geology”

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So goes the scary heading in the article from Earth Magazine sent to me by a reader. It began innocently enough. Steven Newton writes: To...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Christianity Today Joins the Historical Adam Question

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In the most recent issue of Christianity today , Richard Ostling takes a stab at the question of the historical Adam, a vexing question in ...
Monday, June 13, 2011

Ark Encounter to Possibly Begin Building in August

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According to Cincinnati.com, ground-breaking on the new Ark Encounter might begin in two months. Mark Hansel writes: Groundbreaking for th...
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Saturday, June 11, 2011

Yet Another Republican Shows How Science Education Has Failed Him

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I saw this in another place, but Panda's Thumb has a video of amateur historian David Barton who, well, let's let Mother Jones tell ...
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Richard Dawkins: Not So Bad After All?

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The independent has an article on Richard Dawkins which casts him not as the devil incarnate but rather, not such a bad guy. As Kevin Myers ...
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