Friday, April 25, 2014

Evolution Humor

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I saw this cartoon on Wonkette and laughed for a good five minutes solid.  Enjoy:
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Smithsonian Gets Tyrannosaurus rex, AiG Responds

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Last week, the Washington Post reported that the Smithsonian Institution had finally purchased an original Tyrannosaurus rex fossil to re...
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Monday, April 21, 2014

Bill Nye Says He Underestimated Impact of Debate

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Bill Nye now says that he underestimated the impact that his debate with Ken Ham had on the evolution/creationism debate.  As he writes in ...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Your Inner Fish Part 2, on PBS Tonight

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Don't forget to watch part 2 of Your Inner Fish , on PBS tonight at 10:00.  The first episode was very good and is a great companion to ...
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Monday, April 14, 2014

Poland Welcomes a New Religion...Maybe

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In a recent court decision, a Warsaw court overturned a lower court's decision to deny the request by a group of people to petition that...
Friday, April 11, 2014

Teach Both. Let The Kids Decide

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Rick Perry once told kids that they teach both evolution and creationism in Texas “…. because I figure you’re smart enough to figure out wh...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Kate Mulgrew Was Snookered

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Io9 is running a story that Kate Mulgrew does not , in fact, believe that the sun orbits the earth and that she was duped into appearing in...
Wednesday, April 09, 2014

More on Vouchers

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One of my readers pointed out that, as much as I castigate politicians such as Paul Broun , who has publicly stated that evolutionary and bi...
Tuesday, April 08, 2014

Slightly Off-Topic: Kate Mulgrew To Narrate Geocentrism Movie

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The former Kathryn Janeway, of the starship Voyager, Kate Mulgrew (otherwise known as Mrs. Columbo) has gone down the rabbit hole.  She will...
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Monday, April 07, 2014

Kenneth Miller: Darwin, Design, and the Catholic Faith

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Kenneth Miller has a lengthy post for Beliefnet on evolution and faith.  There is no date on the page, so I don't know when it came out...
Friday, April 04, 2014

South Carolina: Naming the State Fossil

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An eight-year-old girl by the name of Olivia McConnell had a great idea: suggest that the Columbian Mammoth, common to the state during the ...
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Thursday, April 03, 2014

More Problems Concerning Ball State University and Intelligent Design

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Questions have been raised regarding meetings between Jo Ann Gora, the current president of Ball State University, and Indiana legislators w...
Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Your Inner Fish Coming to a TV Set Near You

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PBS has hopped on the bandwagon that Cosmos is on and is airing a miniseries based on Neil Shubin's great book Your Inner Fish: A Journ...
Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Some Perspective on the School Vouchers Controversy

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David Harsanyi, at the Federalist, has an article on the controversy involving school vouchers being used to teach creationism and suggests...
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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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