Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Holy Jurassic Park, Batman!

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Wired has a story on “ How to hatch a dinosaur ” by Thomas Hayden. He writes: Over the past several decades, paleontologists—including [...
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Friday, September 23, 2011

Leonard Steinhorn Wants to Know How The GOP Became the Anti-Science Party

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Writing for HufPo, Leonard Steinhorn has some comments on the GOP and the race for their nomination.  He writes: It would be easy to take...
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

“Out-of-Africa Replacement Model”: Piling On

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On the heels of the recent DNA arguments supporting hybridization between early modern Homo sapiens and archaic Homo sapiens in Africa com...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Where Did the Cretaceous Birds Go?

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As evidence continues to pile up supporting the theropod dinosaur-to-bird transition, the question has arisen: where did all of the Cretaceo...
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No Dinos in Heaven Screening at New York Academy of Sciences

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Laure Parsons writes that there will be a screening of the movie No Dinos in Heaven at the New York Academy of Sciences on October 25, 2011...
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Agitation Against Creationism in the UK

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David Attenborough has joined a group of scientists who are arguing that the government must forcefully ban the teaching of creationism in s...

Svante Pääbo: DNA clues to our inner Neanderthal

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Here is short video in which Svante Pääbo gives a short presentation on "Your Inner Neanderthal."
Monday, September 19, 2011

Crocodile From Hell

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First we had the Frog From Hell , then we had the Snake From Hell and now, it seems, that we have the Crocodile From Hell .   National Geog...
Friday, September 16, 2011

Sigmund Comments on the BioLogos/Discovery Institute Rift

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Jerry Coyne has a guest post on his blog by Sigmund.  Sigmund has noticed the bad feelings between the Discovery Institute and BioLogos and ...
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Thursday, September 15, 2011

New CFSI Post Up

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My new post is up over at the Center for Faith and Science International, on conservatism and evolution.  Comments, as always, are welcome ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

David Klinghoffer, Evolution and Conspiracy Theories

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Give David Klinghoffer credit for tenacity, or what Linus van Pelt called “mule-headedness.”  Not content to link Hitler and the Discovery ...
Monday, September 12, 2011

NPR on the Literal Adam and Eve

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In the wake of the resignation of John Schneider at Calvin College, NPR has an article on their web site on the latest Christian controvers...
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Sunday, September 11, 2011

Trouble At Calvin College

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A report is coming out of Calvin College, in Michigan that a professor has left after a controversy surrounding his position on a literal Ad...
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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Nature News Story on Au. sediba

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Nature News has a story on the Australopithecus sediba skeleton described by Lee Berger and colleagues.  Ewen Callaway writes: At around...
Friday, September 09, 2011

Dennis Venema: Ask an Evolutionary Creationist

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Dennis Venema has a new post over at BioLogos that is in the form of a Q&A and touches most of the main tenets of evolutionary creatio...
Thursday, September 08, 2011

More on Au. sediba From CNN

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CNN has a story on Australopithecus sediba with some better pictures.

Au. sediba Now Considered Possible Ancestor to Homo

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New research is suggesting that the overall anatomy of Australopithecus sediba makes it the best candidate for being ancestral to Homo .  T...

R.I.P. Out-of-Africa Replacement Model?

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"When two groups of people meet, they may fight but they will always mate."  -J. Lawrence Angel It now seems that the last b...
Saturday, September 03, 2011

New Film by Greta Schiller: No Dinosaurs in Heaven

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Greta Schiller has a documentary film out called No Dinosaurs in Heaven , which I think is a very odd title and is likely to add fuel to the...
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Friday, September 02, 2011

Christopher Hitchens on Rick Perry

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I wish I wasn't such a big fan of Christopher Hitchens. The man can write better than just about anyone that I know and, even if I disa...
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