Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Acceptance of Evolution Drops Among Republicans

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The Pew Forum has released the results of a new poll that seem to indicate that acceptance of evolution has stayed relatively unchanged in ...
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Science Daily: Neanderthal Genome Shows Early Human Interbreeding, Inbreeding

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More clarity.  A new study coming out of the University of California at Berzerkeley posits that not only did early modern humans and Neand...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Another Conservative Drinks From the Wrong Bottle

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Granville Sewell has written a piece for Human Events, titled Intelligent Design Theories Gaining Steam in Scientific Circles .  As nearly a...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

New Study on Neandertal Burials

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Science World Report has a story on a study done by New York University. From the press release : Neanderthals, forerunners to modern huma...
Monday, December 16, 2013

More on the Texas SBOE Decision to Adopt Scientifically Accurate Textbooks

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Church & State has a short piece on the back story behind the adoption of the new scientifically-sound textbooks in Texas.  They write:...
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Creation Museum Not Charging Admission For Children Under 13 in 2014

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The AP is reporting that the Creation Museum in Petersburgh, KY, run by Ken Ham, is not going to be charging admission for children the enti...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Orrorin tugenensis: As Close to the Last Common Ancestor As We Have Gotten?

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Based on work by SUNY Stoney Brook, it has been learned that the femur of Orrorin tugenensis , the six-million year-old presumed hominin, al...
Monday, December 09, 2013

More Trouble on the High Seas

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The Ark-n-Park may be in for more difficulties if animal rights organizations get a hold of it.  Gwen Pearson has written an article for WIR...
Friday, December 06, 2013

Oldest Human DNA Recovered

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Using the fossil material from the Sima de Los Huesos cave, at the Spanish site of Atapuerca, geneticists have recovered DNA.   From the Nat...
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Monday, November 25, 2013

More Government Overreach: 23andMe Ordered To Cease and Desist

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The FDA has ordered the company 23andMe to stop providing its genetic overview and genealogy results package, which the agency describes as ...
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Texas State Board of Education Chooses Scientifically Accurate Biology Textbooks

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I was pointed by one of my readers to a news story on Right Wing Watch (a site I do not normally go to) that reports that the Texas State B...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

PhysOrg: Research Team Discovers "Immune Gene" in Neanderthals

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Neandertals once again appear to be playing a central role in modern human origins and continued viability.  From PhysOrg: A research grou...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back To Texas...

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It looks like the Texas text book controversy is heating up again.  This time, ABC has noticed.  Will Weissert writes : Publishers submit...
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Thursday, November 21, 2013

John Freshwater Loses Final Appeal

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The Raw Story is reporting that the Ohio Supreme Court let stand an appeals court decision to allow the termination of Mt. Vernon science t...

Science Daily: Neanderthal Viruses Found in Modern Humans

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A year a half ago, I was sitting in a discussion group in the anthropology department at the University of Tennessee discussing the importan...
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Monday, November 18, 2013

Slate Opines on Ken Ham, The Ark Encounter and Junk Bonds

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Mark Joseph Stern has a piece in Slate that examines the new financing plan that Ken Ham and the Ark Encounter (Ark-n-Park) are enacting to...
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Saturday, November 16, 2013

A Trailer For Noah

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A trailer has been released for the movie Noah .  There is still a good deal of apprehension about it, but it certainly looks like an expens...

Acts and Fiction: The ICR Does A Hatchet Job on Dmanisi Skull 5

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The ICR has, bluntly, called the description of the new Dmanisi skull 5 a fraud .   Lets find out why.  The conclusion, based on the descrip...
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Thursday, November 14, 2013

Is The Republican Party Anti-Science?

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The Atlantic doesn't think so.  In an editorial called The Republican Party Isn't Really the Anti-Science Party , Mischa Fisher make...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

National Geographic Special on Denisova

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National Geographic is running a special report on the importance of the Denisova hominin for later human evolution.  The timing is curious...