Thursday, March 31, 2016

Louisiana Votes To Keep the LSEA

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The Times-Picayune is reporting that the Louisiana legislature passed up an opportunity to repeal the Louisiana Science Education Act.  Juli...
Monday, March 28, 2016

A Tour of The Ark Construction

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Brandon Ambrosino writes about a tour of the construction site of the Ark Encounter.  He remarks that he was “one of a handful of journalis...
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Thursday, March 24, 2016

More Evidence of Hybrization Between Archaics and Moderns in Africa

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Nature 's Research Highlights points to a paper written for the journal Genome Research, in which the authors, using whole genome analys...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Humans and Meat

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New research by Dan Lieberman and Katherine Zink strongly supports what we have suspected for quite some time, that a substantial change in ...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

More Stones Thrown at the Phrase "Theistic Evolution"

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Forbes has a post by John Farrell, the science and technical writer, about the inadequacy and inappropriateness of the term “Theistic Evolu...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Nuclear DNA From the Simo de los Huesos Fossil Material

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Nature has a paper that focuses on DNA that has been extracted from the Sima de los Huesos fossil material from the site of Atapuerca, in no...
Friday, March 11, 2016

Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends...

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Keith Emerson, formerly of the rock band Emerson, Lake and Palmer, has passed away .  Reports are that he had been in spotty health and had ...
Sunday, March 06, 2016

Klinghoffer Responds to the Retraction

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David Klinghoffer followed up his initial post about the grasping hand paper with a post involving its inevitable retraction.  Called Censor...
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Saturday, March 05, 2016

That Didn't Take Long...

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Sure enough, the Discovery Institute's David Klinghoffer has penned a response to the ruckus involving the retracted paper in PLoS ONE a...

And Just In Case You Wondered...

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...what the major scientific organizations think about Intelligent Design, here are short , paragraph-long summaries of their positions.  Fo...
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St. Paul's Cathedral Ceiling Shows Evolution?????

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Really? That would be quite something, if true. Hannah Tooley writes in Premier: Google Cultural Institute's feature means that onl...
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Friday, March 04, 2016

PLoS ONE Intelligent Design Paper on Grasping Hand Retracted

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A paper published in the journal PLoS ONE has raised a huge ruckus with the scientific community and has led to (apparently successful) call...
Monday, February 29, 2016

Neandertals and Modern Humans Had Longer Period of "Intimate" Contact

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New research suggests that the earliest time that Neandertals and moderns humans got jiggy with it was around 100,000 years ago.  This is a ...
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Sunday, February 28, 2016

Idaho Bible Reference Bill Amended to Omit Science

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ID Education News is reporting that a bill that had been drafted that would permit the use of the Bible as a reference for various school su...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

Human/Gorilla Split at Eight MYA?

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Scientific American is running an article, which details work by Gen Suwa and colleagues, in the Afar Triangle, where nine gorilla-sized tee...

Update: Mississippi Bill Dies in Committee

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NCSE is reporting that HB 50, the Mississippi “Academic Freedom” bill proposed by Mark Formby has died in committee . Mississippi's Ho...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Discovery Institute Weighs in on the Mississippi Academic Freedom Bill

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On the website Evolution News and Views, Sarah Chaffee of the Discovery Institute attempts to distance the position of the DI from that of y...
Friday, February 19, 2016

Ken Ham and the Church of Darwin

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Ken Ham was the subject of an article on Christian News Service, which began the piece with the astounding claim that Ham is "a biologi...
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Monday, February 15, 2016

40,000 Year-Old Bracelet Found at Denisova Cave

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A bracelet has been discovered at the site of Denisova Cave that excavators have dated to c. 40,000 years BP.  Archaeology Hub has the story...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2016

The Importance of Schöningen to the Story of Human Evolution in Europe

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A lake site in northern Germany, near Schöningen, has lifted much of the veil of how advanced Homo heidelbergensis was during the later Low...
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