Friday, August 19, 2016

Barbara King Responds to the Critics of Her NPR Post

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Barbara King, in a follow-up post to her plea to teach evolution to promote science literacy on NPR , responds to critics that her suggestio...
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Thursday, August 18, 2016

Matthew Walther Writes About What He Found at the Ark Encounter

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Matthew Walther, writing for the Washington Free Beacon chronicles his visit to the Ark Encounter and asks some basic questions : The ques...
Thursday, August 11, 2016

The Evolution of the Eye

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Here is a nifty little video on the formation of the eye by evolutionary processes that was created by Essilor.  It is hand-drawn animation...
Tuesday, August 09, 2016

PJ Media Takes on NPR on Science and Completely Misses the Point

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Science is not a democratic exercise.  There is either scientific support for a theory or there is not.  If there are competing views about ...
Sunday, August 07, 2016

New Scientist: Public Schools Should Not Take Their Kids to the Ark Encounter

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A post in the New Scientist has come out squarely against the idea that public schools should take kids on field trips to the Ark Encounte...
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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