Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Viruses have a strong role in Evolution

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A story making the rounds reports on a study that suggests that viruses may have had a very strong influence on human evolution.  The Econom...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

William Dembski Comes Face to Face With the Closed-Mindedness of Young Earth Creationism

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Disgraced Christian Comedian Mike Warnke once upon a time referred to someone as being so narrow-minded that he “could look through a keyhol...
Friday, July 22, 2016

Lauren Saville: The Importance of Teaching Human Evolution

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Lauren Saville has written a post for NCSE titled "The Importance of Teaching Evolution."  Inevitably, the post deals not just wi...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Ken Ham, Evolutionary Creationism and Reality, Part II

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As I mentioned a few days ago in a post on Ken Ham's attack on evolutionary creationists, the thrust of his argument is that Christians ...
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Monday, July 18, 2016

Ken Ham to Give Public School Students a Huge Discount for Ark Encounter

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When I saw the eye-popping ticket price for Ken Ham's Ark Encounter, it pretty much cemented my initial decision to not attend, even as ...
Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Ken Ham, Evolutionary Creationism and Reality

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Ken Ham has recently taken to the airwaves to lambast those of us who accept the science of evolution but also profess a faith in Jesus Chri...
Friday, July 08, 2016

Tracey Moody: Ark Encounter $62 Million in Debt

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Tracey Moody, writing in Patheos in November of last year, suggests that, behind the grand opening of the Ark Encounter, there are financial...
Thursday, July 07, 2016

The Ark Encounter is Open

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Up until today, the largest wooden structure in the world was the Todai-ji, which housed the Great Buddha and is in the old Japanese capital...
Friday, July 01, 2016

Phil Plait's Biased View of Anti-Science Purveyors

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Phil Plait has a Slate article that squarely takes aim at Donald Trump (A "yuge" target!) and the anti-science views of the Republ...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Ark Encounter Set to Open July 7

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The Ark Encounter, the offshoot of the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, will be opening its doors on July 7, with much fanfare and h...
Saturday, June 18, 2016

Is Louisiana's LSEA Bad Science?

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It isn't, according to University of Shreveport political science professor Jeff Sadow. He argues : [Senator Karen Carter] Peterson’s...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

New Book Out: How I Changed My Mind About Evolution

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The Religion News Service has a story about a new book that has been published that will likely set many fundamentalist evangelicals' t...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Another Republican Gets Evolution Wrong

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This time, it is Rush Limbaugh, who, in one of his daily shows, questioned the wisdom of evolution.  Writing about the unfortunate incident ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Jimmy Carter Visits Ark Encounter, Rains on Ken Ham's Parade

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Ex-president Jimmy Carter visited the not-yet-open Ark Encounter site in Petersburg, Kentucky, on June 10, at the invitation of LeRoy Troyer...
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Monday, June 13, 2016

H. floresiensis Not As Young or As Unique As We Thought

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In other words, so much for the pathology argument.  Many news outlets, National Geographic being one of them , are reporting on new fossil...
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Tuesday, June 07, 2016

Neandertals Too Inbred to Survive?

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Science Daily is running a story on research published in the journal Genetics that posits that Neandertals were so inbred that their geneti...
Monday, June 06, 2016

Humans and Fire

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It had been conventional wisdom that the origin of bipedality occurred in a forest/fringe environment and that a move to the savannah during...
Friday, June 03, 2016

Ken Ham Extends the Olive Branch

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Ken Ham has offered to take Bill Nye on a tour of his new Ark Encounter (or at least show him the door, as the story goes).  Czarina Ong wr...
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...