Saturday, December 31, 2011

Science Timeline in Nature

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Nature News has an interactive timeline of all of the major science stories of the year here . It is a good recap. ---------------- Now pla...

Gee, Who Knew?

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Every so often, Science Daily comes out with a story that, perhaps needs to be restated but is amusing nevertheless. They write: Climate c...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

Bad Science Stories of the Year

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Now that I have a working draft of my next BioLogos post done, I can, in good conscience, blog again. Science Daily has a good story on th...
Saturday, December 24, 2011

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

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I pray that everyone will have a safe, blessed and joyous Christmas and that the new year will be rich and rewarding. Love, in Christ, Jim
Thursday, December 22, 2011

On the Other Hand...

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...it looks like they did not have as good a sense of smell. Work by Katerina Harvati suggests that Neandertals had a reduced sense of smel...

iTunes Trailer for the Hobbit

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iTunes has a 1080p version of “The Hobbit” trailer here . It looks like, rather than being “The Hobbit”, it is actually “2941, Third Age,” ...

New CFSI Post

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My newest post for CFSI is up. It is loosely based on why a word-for-word interpretation of the scriptures is, very often, a bad thing. Th...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Neandertals Lived in Houses

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Yahoo News Canada is reporting on research in Moldova that reveals what we already know was going on in the Russian steppes—that Neandertal...
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A Trailer For the Hobbit

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Yay!
Monday, December 19, 2011

Christianity in Evolution

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The Independent has an article on a new book out by Jack Mahoney, called Christianity in Evolution: An Exploration , in which the Jesuit pr...
Friday, December 16, 2011

Christopher Hitchens Has Died

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From the obituary in Reuters: As a journalist, war correspondent and literary critic, Hitchens carved out a reputation for barbed repartee,...
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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Transgenerationally Acquired Resistance?

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A new article by Rechavi et al, in the journal Cell ( http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2011.10.042 ) is reporting on research involving the ...
Friday, December 09, 2011

The Meaning of “Biblical Literalism”

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Todd Wood points us to an article by Joshua Moritz on The Search For Adam Revisited: Evolution, Biblical Literalism, and the Question of Hum...
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Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Archaeological Evidence: Neandertals and Modern Humans Interacted and Interbred

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The Newsroom at the University of Colorado has released news of a study that links the archaeological evidence in Europe with Neandertal/ea...

Sightly Off-Topic: Ken Ham Comes Through

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Recently, a rural pastor in Pike County, Kentucky, made national news when he forebade congregation members from engaging in interracial mar...
Monday, December 05, 2011

Checking in on BIO-Complexity

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So, it has been a year and a half since the Center for Science and Culture, the wing of the Discovery Institute, inaugurated BIO-Complexity ...
Friday, December 02, 2011

Modern Humans Out of Africa Earlier Than Thought?

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The Australian is reporting on the find in Arabia of stone tools purported to be crafted to modern humans that date to around 100 000 years ...
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....