Friday, February 20, 2015

Ken Ham, Andrew Snelling, Creationism and the Challenge of Modern Geology

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Recently, a story showed up in the science dailies about evidence supporting rapid canyon formation in Iceland.  First, the story that the B...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Andrew Snelling, Geology and Cooking

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Sorry, this one rambles a little bit. Jonathan Baker at Age of Rocks writes an interesting column that is a response to Andrew Snelling...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Ken Ham Suing State of Kentucky

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Ken Ham is suing the state of Kentucky over the revocation of the tax credits for the Ark-n-Park.  Stoyan Zaimov of The Christian Post has t...

A Darwin Day Cartoon

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Ardziv Simonian,  at Exodus (A travel site), has put together a cartoon in celebration of Darwin Day.  It is a humorous look at the life of ...
Monday, February 09, 2015

Time to Play "Name That Party" Again!

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A state representative (guess which party!) in Montana has revived a bill to allow the teaching of intelligent design in the classroom.   Th...

Darwin Day at UT

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Darwin Day(s) are occurring at UT this week.  Here is the post from the NCSE: Dear Knoxville-area friends of NCSE, I thought that you mi...
Monday, February 02, 2015

Creationism in the UK: Overstated?

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Forbes is running a story that finds the prevalence of young earth creationism is not as great as has been thought.  John Farrell, who righ...
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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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