Friday, October 31, 2014

The Pope Has Spoken (and He Sounds Like the Last Couple of Popes)

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Pope Francis has, according to CNN, taken a stand against creationism. Heidi Schlumpf writes : Liberal American Catholics greet almost an...
Monday, October 13, 2014

Fred Clark on Croco-Ducks, Kirk Cameron, Creationism and Spinosaurus

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Fred Clark, over at Patheos has an interesting post in which he notes the discovery of Spinosaurus , a dinosaur from Hell that was 50 feet l...
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Sunday, October 12, 2014

Freshwater Out of Appeals

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The Columbus Dispatch reports that former Mt. Vernon school teacher John Freshwater was, correctly, dismissed from his job: A silent ruli...
Saturday, October 11, 2014

Tyler Francke: The top 10 signs that you don’t understand evolution at all

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I hate it when I discover a resource that I should have known about all along.  I just ran across Tyler Francke's blog God of Evolution....
Friday, October 10, 2014

Ken Ham and Cognitive Dissonance

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Elizabeth Yale, writing for the Danforth Center of Religion and Politics, has an interesting article on Ken Ham and, generally, a short his...
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Ark Encounter Hiring Update

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Yahoo News is running a story that the state of Kentucky has contacted the organizers of the Ark Encounter in connexion with its CAD designe...
Wednesday, October 01, 2014

PBS Antiques Roadshow on Scopes Trial

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The Antiques Road Show on PBS has a short historical sketch on the Scopes trial, in Dayton, Tennessee.  I found that if you “Play All”, the...
Saturday, September 27, 2014

New Film: A Matter of Faith

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Wendy Byerly Wood, of the Elkin Tribune, writes : The story is about a Christian teenager who goes off to college for her freshman year an...
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Friday, September 26, 2014

Thoughts On Jared Diamond, Creationism and Lies

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Jared Diamond, professor of geography at UCLA, was interviewed for TES Magazine.  Adi Bloom writes: Jared Diamond , author of The Third Ch...

Yay, The Fiscal Year is Almost Over!!!

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Here at Oak Ridge National Lab, the calendar, like most federal agencies, runs from October of one year to the end of September of the next ...
Monday, September 08, 2014

Ohio: Creationism Shut Out, But Not ID?

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The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that House Bill 597, which would repeal the Common Core in Ohio, has been stripped of language that woul...

In Hindsight...

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I have rethought Ken Ham's argument that AU is employing a double standard by attacking the hiring practices of Answers in Genesis whil...
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Thursday, September 04, 2014

Science & Human Origins Conference in Idaho on September 20

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  According to the new Discovery Institute Website, there is a Science & Human Origins day-long conference at the Ray and Joan Kroc...
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Wednesday, September 03, 2014

What Hiring Practices?

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Kentucky.com, the website of the Lexington Herald Leader, has an editorial chastising the state of Kentucky for giving out state aid to the ...
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Tuesday, September 02, 2014

Nobel Prize Winners: Ban Creationism in Scottish Schools

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The Scotland Herald is carrying a story in which three Nobel Prize winners are urging the Scottish Government to ban the teaching of Creati...
Friday, August 29, 2014

Oldest Complex Fossil Found in Newfoundland

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CNN is reporting that a 560 million year-old fossil with muscular tissue has been found in Newfoundland.  I can't embed the video so her...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

AU Opposes Tax Incentives for Ark Encounter

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The organization Americans United for the Separation of Church and State has written a letter to Steve Beshear, the governor of Kentucky, ur...

General Distrust for Common Core

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Here is an article on the views of the public in general about the Common Core.  The problems identified are a microcosm of federalism as a...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Opposition to Common Core: A New Trojan Horse?

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Despite my general dislike for Common Core and the persistent overreach by the federal government, it seems clear that some groups are using...
Friday, August 15, 2014

Ark Encounter Breaks Ground In Kentucky

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The construction has begun!  WKYT in Kentucky reports this : Workers are clearing land in northern Kentucky to build a long-stalled touris...
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