Saturday, May 31, 2014

David MacMillan: Understanding Creationism

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Over at Panda's Thumb, David MacMillan is writing a short series on the subject that has baffled people like me for years: why, in the f...
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Friday, May 30, 2014

Science, Faith and Cognitive Dissonance

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Josh Rosenau, who used to write a blog called Thoughts from Kansas, has written a very thoughtful post on the world view as it applies to f...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Saner Heads Prevail in South Carolina

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The Columbian Mammoth is now the official state fossil of South Carolina.  Seanna Adcox has the story : Olivia, who wants to become an Egy...

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There is a story in the New York Times by Alan Binder involving the Bryan College controversy, if you are interested.  I so dislike the Time...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Ark Encounter Begins Construction

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Catching up!   I have been snowed under with work and the end of the semester.  In the meantime, several things have happened.  First, it ap...

A Chronicle of the Ball State Controversy

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Christopher Stephens offers a time-line of all of the happenings at Ball State over the past year involving the controversy with intelligen...
Monday, May 19, 2014

Pat Robertson Reiterates His Disdain for Young Earth Creationism

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Late last week, Pat Robertson took to the airwaves to, yet again, tell the world what he thinks of young earth creationism.  Here is what he...

2 Fired Bryan College Professors Sue the College

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Last week, the AP reported that two of the professors at Bryan College that have not been retained, Steven DeGeorge and Stephen Barnett, hav...
Monday, May 05, 2014

20% of Faculty Leaving Bryan College

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The Tennessean is reporting that quite a number of faculty have either left or been dismissed from Bryan College as a direct result of the ...
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Friday, May 02, 2014

The Discovery Institute Strikes Again

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We don't even have to play “Guess that party!” do we? This time it is Mike Fair, R-Greenville, South Carolina, using the DI template .  ...
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...