Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Christianity Today: A New Creation Story

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A reader was kind enough to pass this story on today.  Christianity Today has decided to follow the Atlantic's lead and has published a ...
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Monday, April 29, 2013

Teachers and Evolution: Coming Through the Back Door

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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has an interesting editorial on the creation/evolution question as it pertains to science teachers and, in the...
Saturday, April 27, 2013

Pew Quiz on Science and Technology

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The Pew Trust quizzed 1000 randomly-selected people about general knowledge of Science and Technology and then invited people interested in ...
Friday, April 26, 2013

Internet Monk: "The Disney-ization of Christianity Continues Apace"

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In his "Updates on the Creation Wars," Chaplain Mike airs his thoughts on the new Noah's Ark theme center at Cornerstone Chur...
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Urban Legend? Hopefully, But Probably Not.

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A friend of mine sent this to me from Snopes.com.  It is, purportedly, a quiz given in a fourth grade science class at a school in South Ca...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Musings On Death and The Garden of Eden

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I recently read a paper by John Lynch called “PREPARE TO BELIEVE”: The Creation Museum as embodied conversion narrative." The paper is...
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Monday, April 15, 2013

Joe Barton, Climate Change and Noah's Flood: More Beclowning

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U.S. Representative Joe Barton, of Texas (do I need to give the party affiliation?), has made the news based on his views on climate change....
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AAPA

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Back from the conference!  Okay, so it was in my back yard.  I still didn't get a lot done while it was going on.  The American Associat...
Wednesday, April 03, 2013

More on Joseph Mastropaolo...

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One of my readers posted a link to an earlier article , by Michael Zimmerman, on HuffPo about Joseph Mastropaolo, the creationist I wrote ab...

Peter Hess: Science, Catholicism and the Papacy in the New Millennium

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Peter Hess, the Director of Outreach to Religious Communities for the National Center for Science Education, has written a nice piece chroni...
Tuesday, April 02, 2013

In the Spirit of Kent Hovind...

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A reader sent me a link to this story about a man who is daring anyone to " challenge the literal interpretation of Genesis in court ....
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

What Did Thomas Nagel Write?

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Thomas Nagel, a professor of philosophy, has written a book entitled Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

An Intelligent Design Murder Mystery

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The Chattanooga Times Free Press has profiled a writer of murder mysteries who has centred one around Intelligent Design.  The book, titled...

More Trouble for the Complete "Out-of-Africa" Model

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Science Daily is reporting on research done on migration patterns involving early anatomically modern humans.  They write: The team, led ...

Io9 Misses the Point

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George Dvorsky at io9 thinks that the new Pope believes in evolution, but then gives us absolutely no evidence to back that claim up. He wr...
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Monday, March 25, 2013

Science Teachers Express Frustration

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Science teachers are beginning to express frustration about having to get around legislation that requires them to add ID-tinged education t...
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Thursday, March 21, 2013

Another "Noah's Ark" Opens

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Reuters is reporting that a replica of Noah's Ark has opened at a church in San Antonio, Texas.  According to the press release: Appro...
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Saturday, March 16, 2013

Duane Gish Has Died

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I missed this when it happened last week.  One of the grand old men of young earth creationism, Duane Gish, has died at the age of 92.  Ther...
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Attention-Grabbing Ad

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Here is the advertisement that 23andMe runs. It certainly got my attention.
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Friday, March 15, 2013

Another Ersatz Science Bill Fails

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NCSE reports that the time limit on the reading of Oklahoma House Bill 1674 was allowed to lapse.  According to the story : Along with Sen...