Thursday, January 29, 2015

Anatomically Modern Humans in the Levant at 55,000 BP

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Nature News (the story appears in other outlets, as well) is reporting a new discovery of an anatomically modern skull cap in Israel, at M...
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Friday, January 23, 2015

Australopithecus africanus Used Power and Precision Grip

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Science Daily, as well as some other outlets are reporting new research on evidence that Australopithecus africanus used their hands in th...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

New Indiana Bill 562

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In the Lafayette (or “laughalot” as one of my friends who went to Purdue once called it) Journal and Courier, we learn that state senator J...
Friday, January 16, 2015

PhysOrg: New evidence for anthropic theory that fundamental physics constants underlie life-enabling universe

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Wut? There is an article on the PhysOrg site that seems to be reporting support for the anthropic principle, a critical linchpin of Intell...
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Saturday, December 27, 2014

Karl Giberson: 2014 Revenge of the Creationists

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Karl Giberson has written a post for the Daily Beast called “ Revenge of the Creationists ,” in which he outlines all of the recent developm...
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Thursday, December 18, 2014

Bill Nye Thinks Creationism is "Raising A Generation Of Young People Who Can't Think"

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Bill Nye has been interviewed on Newsmax TV, and, in his customary blunt way, argues that: “Religion is one thing. People get tremendous ...
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Monday, December 15, 2014

You Knew This Was Coming...

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Kentucky.com is reporting that Ken Ham and AiG are fighting the Kentucky Tourism Board's decision to rescind the tax credits for the Ar...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

Ark Encounter Loses Tax Incentives

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Reuters is reporting that the AiG-fronted Ark Encounter project has lost the tax incentives it so desperately wanted for the construction ...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Response to The Ignorance of Blind Faith

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A.J. Castellitto wrote a piece for the site American Clarion called The Ignorance of Blind Faith , in which he (she?) writes (in the best D...
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Thursday, December 04, 2014

Bad News in Texas

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Apparently, the Truth in Texas Textbooks push has won some major concessions to what kinds of education kids in Texas will get in the coming...
Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Possible Mollusk Etching by Homo erectus

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Science Magazine (and quite a few other outlets) is running a story involving the discovery of a 500, 000 year-old mollusk that shows some ...
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Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Another Professor in Hot Water Over Evolution

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Inside Higher Ed is posting a story about a professor at Georgia Southern University, a state school in Statesboro, Georgia.  Quoth Colleen...

One of my Readers Pointed Out...

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That my dad was quite an accomplished scholar who lived a long and varied life.  It is difficult to overstate the importance he played in my...
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Monday, December 01, 2014

Dr. J. Edward Kidder Jr. 6/24/1922 - 11/30/2014

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Rest in Peace, Dad.  We love you and we miss you.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

More Trouble in Texas

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Io9 is reporting on a movement afoot to censor the textbooks in Texas of what it considers “Pro-Muslim” bias. Science groups have been w...
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Thursday, November 13, 2014

Kurt Warner on Evolution: Is Ben Roethlisberger Evolved?

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Inquistr recounts the episode of Kurt Warner waxing on the theory of evolution in his live NFL show.  First, I thought it was pretty funny....
Friday, November 07, 2014

More Criminal Charges for Kent Hovind?

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According to an article in Forbes, Kent Hovind, the former Dr. Dino and, at one point, a big player in young earth creationist circles, is i...
Thursday, November 06, 2014

"At This Point, It looks Like They Just Dropped down Out of the Sky."

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That is what a prominent palaeontologist once said about ichthyosaurs a few years back because their appearance in the fossil record gave li...
Monday, November 03, 2014

Meanwhile, In Scotland...

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On November 11, a hearing will take place in Glasgow to air a petition that will call for official guidelines that would bar teaching of cr...
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Saturday, November 01, 2014

HuffPo: Anti-Evolution Republicans

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HuffPo has a post on notable Republicans that are notably anti-evolution, some of which i have profiled.  One such induhvidual is Paul Brou...