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.

Monday, August 29, 2011

“The Rise of Early Homo

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My newest BioLogos post is up called The Rise of Early Homo . Comments are welcome both there and here.
Saturday, August 27, 2011

Going Dark For a Few Days

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I am going to a wedding in Maine and will likely not be able to post until sometime next week. In the meantime, watch for my next BioLogos...
Friday, August 26, 2011

Nelson Jones: The Politics of Creationism

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Nelson Jones of the New Statesman has a column on the GOP's peculiar take on evolution and creationism. He writes: A bald statement of...
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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Huffington Post Rates GOP Candidates on Evolution

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HufPo has an article where they rate the GOP candidates for President on their thoughts on evolution. Notable: John Huntsman, who accept...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

GOP Candidate Opposes Ark Encounter in Kentucky

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This is really strange. LEO Weekly has reported that the GOP front-runner for the governorship of Kentucky, currently held by Steve Beshear...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Matthew Blackston on BioLogos

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My friend Matthew Blackston, who is a physicist here at ORNL has a post on BioLogos about cosmology, theology and God's use of time . S...
Friday, August 19, 2011

AP Covers Ark-n-Park

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I think it was Barry Lynn that came up with the term “Ark-n-Park” and I like it. The AP has a story on the extravaganza. This story showed...
Thursday, August 18, 2011

Rick Perry in the Thick of It

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Not content to call the printing of more money “treasonous,” (which really would be a bad idea) Rick Perry has now voiced his opinion about...
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Monday, August 15, 2011

New CFSI Post

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My new CFSI post is up titled Not So Different After All . It is my take on the new data that indicates that up to nine percent of non-Afri...
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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Ark ’n Park To Get Huge Property Tax Discounts

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Kentucky.com is reporting new developments in the promotion of the Ark ’n Park involving Property Tax. Linda Blackford writes: The city o...

More Evidence of Hybridization

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Nature News is reporting more evidence of hybridization between Neandertals and their contemporaries and modern humans. In the story “ Ancie...
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Tuesday, August 09, 2011

“Academic Freedom” in Ohio

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The Columbus Dispatch reports on the town of Springboro that is attempting to add “supplemental” material to their school curriculum. As th...
Monday, August 08, 2011

The Role of Savannahs in Human Evolution

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It now appears that grassland savannahs stretched further than originally thought during the critical time when human precursors became bipe...
Sunday, August 07, 2011

Hugh Ross on Common Ancestry

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What in the Wide World of Sports is a' Goin' on at RTB?????????? One of my readers clued me in to a podcast by Hugh Ross in which he...
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Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Chris Mooney Wonders “Why The Scientifically Literate Can Believe Silly Things”

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In an article for Discover Magazine, Chris Mooney asks this question . He opines: If you understand motivated reasoning, then you understan...
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Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Americans United On the Rise of Creationism

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Americans United has a long post on the rise of what it calls “creationism,” which is really anything dealing with either young earth creat...
Monday, August 01, 2011

Did the Neandertals Get Swamped?

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Well, now it seems that the Neandertals didn't get replaced in Europe, they got swamped. As the story in Science Daily puts it: By co...
Friday, July 29, 2011

Archaeopteryx No Longer First Bird

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Sorry, the title is a tad hyperbolic but it fits with the article. A re-evaluation of Archaeopteryx has led to its removal from the subcla...
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Monday, July 25, 2011

New “Ape-Man” Exhibit at the Creation Museum

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Christian News Today has an article on a new exhibit at the Creation Museum that is being touted as the “Ape-Man” exhibit. They write: “T...
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Saturday, July 23, 2011

A Few Cartoons to Brighten Your Day...

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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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