Friday, May 27, 2016

What Were They Building?

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The Atlantic (and some other news outlets) is running a story about a remarkable discovery at Bruniquel Cave, in France, of a structure that...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

New Book Attacks Creationist Explanation of the Grand Canyon

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A new book edited by Carol Hill (who has written some very good articles for the ASA journal Perspectives on the Christian Faith , here and...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

All in the Service of a Message

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A Youngstown, Ohio school district has come under fire for its inclusion of a video for tenth grade science that is produced by Adnan Oktar ...

All Europeans of Belgian Descent?

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Tech Times is reporting that all modern Europeans are descended from a population from Belgium.  James Maynard writes : Ancient DNA left o...
Friday, May 20, 2016

Whew!

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The semester is over.  Back to posting.
Friday, April 29, 2016

What Happens When You Get Cited by Young Earth Creationists

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This is an issue that has plagued Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge in the past, when you get misquoted by a young-earth creationist.  No...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Kansas Court Rejects Argument that Evolution is Religion

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Raw Story is reporting that the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected the motion of Citizens for Objective Public Education (COPE) to ...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

British Office of Standards and Education Weighs in on Private School Teaching

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On the website Politics.co.uk, it is being reported that Ofsted, the Office of Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills ha...
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Monday, April 25, 2016

New Evidence of Monkey Migration

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Tech Times is reporting research that indicates that monkeys made the journey from South America to Central America much earlier than thoug...
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Monday, April 18, 2016

No Extra Vacation For Kentucky Schoolchildren

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 A bill that would have extended summer vacation for Kentucky school children has died.  NCSE writes : Kentucky's Senate Bill 50 (PD...
Saturday, April 16, 2016

Creationism in Poland?

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NCSE is reporting that a creationist book has been distributed to Polish schools, even though they did not ask for them.  They write: A co...
Friday, April 01, 2016

Ken Ham Endorses Evolution

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In a surprise announcement, Answers in Genesis leader Ken Ham has taken an about-face and now agrees that the theory of evolution is, in fac...
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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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