Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Slightly Off-Topic: Why Science Works Even When People Behave Badly

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Ars Technica has a fascinating story about scientific misconduct involving a retrovirus and how the whole thing came apart like a cheap sui...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Dear Svante, I am a Neandertal

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The Guardian's Notes and Theories has a column on the mail that Svante Pääbo received after delivering the revelation that Neandertals ...
Monday, November 28, 2011

British Muslim Students and Evolution

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There is, apparently, a growing problem in Great Britain right now with Muslim medical students—they are skipping the lectures on Evolution....

Lynn Margulis Has Died

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From the University of Massachusetts at Amherst: Margulis was best known for her theory of symbiogenesis, which challenges central tenets ...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

A Short History of Humans and Vitamin D

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The Philadelphia Enquirer has an article on the research done by Nina Jablinski on humans’ evolution of skin color as a response to the nee...
Monday, November 21, 2011

The Mind of Neandertals

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Nature has a review of a book called How To Think Like a Neandertal by Thomas Wynn and Frederick Coolidge. Curiously, the authors spell “...
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Saturday, November 19, 2011

Neandertals Found on the Greek Islands

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They are sunny, tranquil and surrounded by gorgeous blue-green ocean. They are the Greek isles and now, it seems, they were also home to a ...
Friday, November 18, 2011

Slightly Off-Topic: The Nature of Moths

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Harriet Walker writes about the nature of moths in this column and, while I am convinced that God does not hate us in the least bit, I am r...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

What Gigantopithecus Ate

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A story in PhysOrg reports on research done on the diet of Gigantopithecus blacki , the immense primate that lived during the late Miocene ...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

New BioLogos Post is Up

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My new post on early Homo is up at BioLogos. As always, comments are welcome here and there. ---------------- Now playing: Emerson, Lake ...

Peter Hess is “Clearing the Middle Path”

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Robert Luhn, the Director of Communications for the National Center for Science Education sent me a link to an American Scientific Affiliati...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

New Post Up at CFSI

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My new post is up at CFSI. It is called Can You Practice a Science You Don't Believe? and deals with the question of whether or not yo...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

John Evans — “Science and Religion: A False Divide?”

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I missed this when it came out. John Evans of the L.A. Times (not normally a newspaper I pick up) wrote an interesting column about the co...
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Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Jonathan Dudley Wonders “Why Evangelicals Believe Weird Things”

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Author of Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and Faith in American Politics , Jonathan Dudley writes : Lay evangelicals evaluate the argumen...
Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Denisova Update

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John Hawks does not think that the recent data from the paper by Skoglund and Jakobsson holds up under scrutiny. He cites striking discrep...

One Big, Polytypic Family

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Science Daily has a story on research from Uppsala University that the Denisova genome is showing up in East Asia. They write: "Our s...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Albert Mohler on Parellel Cultures, Karl Giberson, Randall Stephens and Liberal Theology

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Albert Mohler has also weighed in on the “parallel cultures” idea that was floated by Karl Giberson and Randall Stephens in their New York ...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Todd Wood Responds on Excellence

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Todd Wood has a follow-up post on the whole parallel cultures idea, in which he argues that having parallel cultures is not necessarily a b...
Sunday, October 23, 2011

Fuz Rana on Human Evolution

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Fuz Rana wants to know: “ Will the Real Human Ancestor Please Stand Up .” He writes: It is commonly reported that humans and chimps share ...
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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Todd Wood on Parallel Cultures

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One of Todd Wood's readers asked him to comment on my post about the Barna Group’s results in which I opined that the problem was not w...
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