Science and Religion: A View from an Evolutionary Creationist

This is a blog detailing the creation/evolution/ID controversy and assorted palaeontological news. I will post news here with running commentary.

Monday, March 31, 2014

Notre Dame Bestows Laetare Medal on Kenneth Miller

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The Notre Dame Observer notes that Kenneth Miller, the Brown, the molecular biologist and critical witness in the Dover School Board trial ...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Ian Philbrick: Why Science and Atheism Are Incompatible

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Ian Philbrick has a piece for the Georgetown Voice that tackles the controversy concerning Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey and its host, a pr...
Friday, March 21, 2014

Sticks and Stones For the First Episode of Cosmos

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The internet has been alive with comments about the new version of Cosmos, hosted by Neil De Grasse Tyson and not all of it has been positiv...
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Friday, March 14, 2014

HuffPo: Intelligent Design's Final Days?

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The intelligent design movement has labored under the premise that its attacks on evolution are not based on religion but on solid science a...
Monday, March 10, 2014

More Trouble at Bryan College

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It seems that the latest Adam and Eve brouhaha at Bryan College may be the straw that has broken the camel's back.  The Chattanooga Time...
Tuesday, March 04, 2014

Oldest Crust of Early Earth Found

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It has been thought that, due to crustal subduction, the earliest crust of the planet has long since gone and the earliest that we have on t...
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Noah's Ark Floats Again

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It is being reported that Ken Ham's Ark Encounter is no longer foundering.  From ABC News by way of the AP: Creation Museum founder K...
Monday, March 03, 2014

Bryan College Officially Supports Young Earth Creation Model

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The Chattanooga Times-Free Press is reporting that, following what is considered to be an unhealthy drift toward naturalism, the college ad...
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

The Believing Neandertal

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The Veritas Forum at the University of Tennessee is holding a presentation and discussion on The Believing Neandertal , a conversation with ...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

What Did Bill Nye and Ken Ham Miss?

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Oliver Putz, writing for SFGate (The San Francisco Chronicle) argues that Bill Nye and Ken Ham both missed the boat in their debate Tuesday...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

Nearly Half of Americans Accept Astrology As Science

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How bad is the science education in this country?  UPI is running a story about the acceptance of astrology in the United States.  It is de...
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Friday, February 14, 2014

Ars Technica: A visual tour of the Creation Museum

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Cheers to Ars Technica for doing something I am not willing to do: pony up the entrance fee to the Creation Museum.  Their diligence in doin...
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Thursday, February 13, 2014

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette: Public cash to teach creationism

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An article in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette raises what is becoming more of a concern among educators: that creationism is being taught in...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Oldest Footprints Outside of Africa

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Fossil footprints have been found in England that are thought to be 800,000 years old.  As Science Daily puts it : The importance of the H...
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Monday, February 10, 2014

Pat Robertson Blasts Ken Ham's View of Scripture

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The Bill Nye/Ken Ham debate was watched by many, many people.  One of the them, it appears, was Pat Robertson, the head of CBN and host of t...
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Wednesday, February 05, 2014

Initial Thoughts on the Bill Nye/Ken Ham Debate...

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I took three pages (front and back) of notes but do not have them with me.  My first thought is that Ken Ham is the better debater.  His pre...
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Monday, February 03, 2014

Bill Nye and Ken Ham go head-to-head

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The Cincinnati Enquirer has a " head to head " column with Bill Nye and Ken Ham ahead of their debate tomorrow night.  Of note fro...

I Fear He is Correct...

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Brett Byers-Lane of Liberty Voice thinks that Bill Nye will lose the debate with Ken Ham. Here is how he reasons : Evolutionists have bee...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Okay, So Maybe It is Not Like a Toblerone Bar...

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Someone once wrote (can't find the source) that the dimensions of Noah's Ark would render it like a Toblerone Bar.  According to a n...
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Friday, January 17, 2014

When Acceptance of Evolution is Not Necessarily "Liberal"

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Zack Kopplin has written a column for Slate in which he exposes some of the stealth creationism that is going on in some Texas public schoo...
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I am a Christian, librarian, palaeoanthropologist, and evolutionary biologist with an all-consuming interest in apologetics and controversies in science and religion.
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