Monday, December 26, 2016

David Coppedge, Redux

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David Klinghoffer has a post for "Evolution, News and Views" in which he defends David Coppedge, the erstwhile NASA technician wh...
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Saturday, December 24, 2016

Pope Francis: Big Bang and Evolution are True

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The Toowoomba Chronicle is reporting a story out of the Vatican that Pope Francis has declared evolution and the big bang to be scientifical...
Friday, December 23, 2016

New Indie Film: We Believe in Dinosaurs

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Indiewire has a story about a new film soon to be out that follows the construction of the Ark Encounter from blueprint stage to opening an...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

Petition: Mike Pence Should Ban the Teaching of Evolution

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Patheos is pointing to a petition that is being circulated to have incoming vice-President Mike Pence make the teaching of evolution illega...
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Friday, December 09, 2016

Dinosaur Feathers Found in Amber

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Many outlets are reporting the find in Myanmar of perfectly-preserved dinosaur feathers in Amber.  From the Washington Post : The amber hu...
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More Bad News...

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After the death of Keith Emerson in March of this year, Greg Lake, of ELP has died after a long battle with cancer.  NPR has a glowing trib...
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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