Monday, November 28, 2016

How Will Climate Change Affect Human Evolution?

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Gizmodo asked a number of scholars how they thought AGW will affect human evolution.  Some of the answers were interesting. Biological anth...
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Monday, November 14, 2016

...And About Creationism Going Extinct in Texas...

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Raw Story has a postmortem on the 2016 presidential election and focuses on Texas races that went very badly for Democrats.  Kaiah Collier ...
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Friday, November 11, 2016

New Study on Homo naledi

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Lauren Schroeder and colleagues have published a report on the skull of Homo naledi , in which they address the characteristics and attempt ...
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Wednesday, November 09, 2016

Richard Dawkins Parody

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Warning: this one is a bit off-color but quite funny nonetheless.  Recall, in recent years, the low-level animosity that has been leveled at...
Tuesday, November 08, 2016

What Our Ancestors Ate

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NPR has a story on dietary analysis of fossilized hominin teeth called Dental Detectives .  Erin Ross writes: When scientists want to know ...
Monday, November 07, 2016

Oh Ye of Great Faith!

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Zack Kopplin writes in the Daily Beast that creationism could go extinct in Texas with this election cycle.  Oh Ye of Great Faith!  To wit:...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

Lucy Fell From a Tree?

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New research from John Kappelman suggests that the australopithecine specimen known as Lucy, the famous find from the 1970s that put hominin...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Amanda Glaze: Teaching Evolution in the South

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Vox has an interview with Amanda Glaze, a professor at Georgia Southern University, about what it is like to teach evolution in the south. ...
Friday, October 21, 2016

Of Stone Tools and Human Cognition

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One of the things that is taught in human origins classes all over the world is that the earliest stone tools were likely made at the site o...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Joel Edmund Anderson: The Heresy of Ham

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In my convalescence, I finished Joel Edmund Anderson's The Heresy of Ham: What Every Evangelical Needs to Know About the Creation-Evolut...
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On the Other Side...

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Whew.  Made it.  Sort of...  There is still a long way to go in terms of healing and getting things back to normal, but the surgery seems to...
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Sunday, September 25, 2016

Going Dark For a Bit

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My surgery is 8:00 in the morning and I will be out of commission for at least a few weeks. I will post more when I can.
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Thursday, September 22, 2016

Scientifice American: "Creationism Invades Europe"

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Scientific American is sounding an alarm that creationism is gaining support in Europe. Stefaan Blancke and Peter C. Kjærgaard write: We...
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Monday, September 19, 2016

Answers in Genesis' Deceptive Video on Radiometric Dating

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Answers in Genesis now has a “Check this Out” feature where they tackle a scientific claim which argues for an old earth and try to debunk...
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Thursday, September 08, 2016

Creationism Not To Be Taught in Ohio Schools

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World Religion News is reporting that the kerfuffle going on regarding the use of the Adnan Oktar (nee Harun Yahya) video on creationism ha...

A Personal Note: Of Life and Prostates

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Funny thing about the prostate gland.  It is absolutely essential for procreation.  Put simply (and I know some people who did not know this...
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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 ...