Wednesday, October 31, 2012

A 'Modern Population Bottleneck?'

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NPR has a story on the (almost) disappearance of modern humans here . It is not a hypothesis that I had heard of before. Robert Krulwich wr...
Monday, October 29, 2012

Yet Another "Beside the Point" Post From the Discovery Institute

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Michael Flannery pens yet another tiring post about the theology of Charles Darwin, as if, somehow, the religious persuasions of Darwin hav...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Off Topic: Perilous

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I just picked up a (signed) copy of Glass Hammer's new CD Perilous .  After two listens through, I think it is as good as their last two...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

A Plea From Dennis Venema

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Dennis Venema, who has written many good posts for BioLogos has written an article for the Colossian Forum titled “ What I Would Like To Hea...
Friday, October 12, 2012

Going on Vacation

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I am going on vacation with the family for the week so probably will not be able to post anything.  Keep checking NCSE , BioLogos and Panda...
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Wouldn't You Like To Be A Pepper Too?

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Another brouhaha has erupted, this time over a Dr. Pepper commercial on Facebook that features someone becoming more human after encounterin...
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Is It My Imagination...

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...or is the ID community slowly abandoning the fossil record as being unfruitful in promoting their arguments?
Monday, October 08, 2012

Another Republican Congressman Beclowns Himself

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The Associated Press is reporting on a speech given by Georgia congressman Paul Broun, who is quoted as saying: “God's word is true,”...
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Friday, October 05, 2012

Hominin Meat Eating As Early As 1.5 Mya

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Science Daily has a story detailing evidence that early hominins (and by this I mean probably Homo habilis or Homo ergaster ) eat meat.  A...
Monday, October 01, 2012

A Creationist Parable: “It's a Duck”

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This came from one of my email contacts and it is a great parable for the YEC point of view.
Saturday, September 29, 2012

In Case You Happen To Live in Texas...

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The Texas Freedom Network has released a voter's guide to the up-coming State Board of Education elections.  The astonishing thing abou...
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Friday, September 28, 2012

The Fossil Record According to Creationism

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Popular Science usually has some outlandish articles and truly goofy science news.  They ran this howler yesterday.  It is the Geological Ti...
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Fossil Data and Genetic Data More Concurrent Than Thought

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It is now coming out that the “clocks” that are used to calculate mutation rates are badly calibrated. Ewen Callaway of Nature writes : G...
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Monday, September 17, 2012

Very Busy...

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I am working on my next BioLogos post and trying to not fall behind in teaching my class, which, because of the new online format, is eating...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

One of My Favorite Quotes

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My wife and I have been invited to a bible study tonight and, to hear of it, the topic might be the creation/evolution debate. I think it i...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Nature: “Science wins over creationism in South Korea”

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Nature News is reporting that the South Korean government has gone on the offensive, urging textbook makers to ignore requests to remove in...
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Monday, September 10, 2012

Discovery Institute Science and Faith Conference

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The Discovery Institute is running a conference titled Science and Faith: Friends or Foes? on October 12-13 at Covenant Seminary in St. Lou...
Friday, August 31, 2012

More on Modern Human Origins

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Scientific American is running a story on more news from the Max Planck Institute. Now, the entire genome of the hominins represented by t...
Monday, August 27, 2012

Bill Nye on Evolution

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Here is a YouTube clip by Bill Nye on the denial of evolution. It is short and doesn't include a whole lot of information but it is hear...
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Friday, August 24, 2012

Baton Rouge Advocate on Louisiana and the Loch Ness Monster

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In an editorial dated August 19, the editors of the Baton Rouge Advocate address the controversy surrounding the Louisiana voucher program a...