Tuesday, January 31, 2017

New Book by Dennis Venema and Scott McKnight: Adam and the Genome

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Dennis Venema and Scott McKnight have released a new book called Adam and the Genome.  From the BioLogos blurb : This week on the blog we’...
Friday, January 27, 2017

Update on the South Dakota Bill

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The Argus Leader is running a story about the South Dakota “Strengths and Weaknesses” bill being bandied about. Deb Wolf, a high school s...

The Hill: New wave of anti-evolution bills hit states

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The Hill has a report on new legislation that has evolution, once more, in the crosshairs.  These bills are being floated in South Dakota, ...
Thursday, January 26, 2017

David MacMillan Responds to Todd Wood

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David MacMillan, writing at Panda's Thumb, responds to Todd Wood regarding the issue of peer-review of creationist literature.  He write...
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Monday, January 23, 2017

Stealth Bill in Oklahoma

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Another &ldauo;strenghts and weaknesses” bill has been put forth in Oklahoma. NCSE has the story : Senate Bill 393 (PDF), styled th...
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Thursday, January 19, 2017

David MacMillan on Homo naledi, Ken Ham and Creationism

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Over at Panda's Thumb, David MacMillan has taken to the pen again to examine the world-view of young earth creationism.  He writes : A...
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Friday, January 06, 2017

Ken Ham and the Missing Dinosaurs

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Ken Ham got into a twitter war with the WaPo, after one of its writers posted an article in which it was written that all of the dinosaurs d...
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Thursday, January 05, 2017

Ken Ham's Ark Taken Up To Heaven!

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That is one of the stories from the satirical Christian website The Babylon Bee.  From the story : I n what is being called a stunning mir...
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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:...