Friday, November 30, 2012

Pat Robertson Goes Rogue

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In a response to a question on the 700 Club , Pat Robertson, head of CBN and Regent University in Virginia Beach, caused many jaws to drop w...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

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Trying to get moved from one house to another, finish up the semester in the next week and finish a BioLogos post.  Not much time for bloggi...
Monday, November 19, 2012

Governor Jindal: Please Practice What You Preach

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Herb Silverman has written an editorial in the Washington Post that is likely to hack off any readers of the Intelligent Design persuasion. ...
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Slightly Off-Topic: A PSA From the Australian Metro

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This video, which is actually a public service announcement from the Australian Metro service (and referred to by Hot Air as the Unofficial ...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Eugenie Scott at UT Tonight

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Eugenie Scott, the director of NCSE will be at McClung Museum tonight giving a talk on evolution and climate science.  I have the flu so wil...
Saturday, November 10, 2012

An Alternate Explanation for the Disappearance of the Dinosaurs

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This is a recent Non Sequitur cartoon explaining how the dinosaurs might have gone extinct.
Friday, November 09, 2012

Judge Sides With NASA and JPL over Coppedge

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Newsvine writes : Superior Court Judge Ernest Hiroshige issued a tentative ruling Thursday saying he was leaning toward finding in favor o...
Thursday, November 08, 2012

What Does The Origin of Life Say About Religion?

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Paul O'Donoghue, writing for the Irish Times asks about The ever evolving nature of scepticism . He writes: Scientists have from time...
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Friday, November 02, 2012

Asking the Provocative Question: "Who Didn't Have Sex With Neandertals?"

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FoxNews also has an article on the North African evidence for Neandertal/modern hybridization. Charles Choi writes: "The only modern...

Slightly Off-Topic

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There are many, many things worse for science in this world than young earth creationism.  Witness what is going on in Eritrea. 
Thursday, November 01, 2012

Neandertal/Modern Human Hybridization in North Africa?

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That is the focus of a new paper in PLoS ONE by Sanchez and colleagues.  Using 780 thousand single nucleotide polymorphisms of 125 individu...
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...