Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Trouble in Turkey

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As Tayyip Erdogan tightens his control over secular Turkey, the most recent casualty is evolutionary science.  The BBC News reports : On W...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Noah and the Dinosaurs

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Sorry for the light posting.  I have been trying to beat into shape a BioLogos article on the new human remains from Jebel Irhoud. Remembe...
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Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Slightly Off-Topic: Mike Adams: Inherit the Windfall

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Mike Adams has a new column on the continuing travails of Bryan College and its embattled president Stephen Livesay.  Bryan, if you will rem...
Wednesday, June 07, 2017

Ark Encounter Not Helping Local Economy

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From Linda Blackford , of the Lexington Herald Leader: Ark co-founder Mike Zovath said the attraction will attract its 1 millionth visitor...
Tuesday, June 06, 2017

Ken Ham Claims He is Not a White Person

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I just love Twitter!!!  Someone can make a perfect ass of themselves in a few seconds in the short space of 140 characters.  Ken Ham sent...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Off-Topic Update: Read the Gender Studies Papers That Inspired the ‘Penis Causes Climate Change’ Hoax

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The Washington Free Beacon has a story on the background behind the recent gender studies hoax on which I reported here .  Elizabeth Harrin...

New BioLogos Post: What Homo Naledi Means for the Study of Human Evolution

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I have a new post up on the significance of the Homo naledi dates and how they affect the study of human evolution.  Comments welcome ther...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

New Post by Dennis Venema on Biological Information

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Dennis Venema has a new post on the testing of an hypothesis by supporters of ID: In previous posts in this series, we’ve explored the cl...
Thursday, May 25, 2017

3.3 Million Year Old Vertebral Column Confirms Human Pattern of Au. afarensis

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The science site PhysOrg has posted a story on a study of the 3.3 million year old fossil from the site of Dikika, in the Afar Triangle.  Th...
Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Ken Ham Needs to Stay Away From Twitter

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Like Donald Trump, Ken Ham sometimes shoots off at the mouth on his Twitter feed.  Hermant Mehta, of Patheos records his latest post : ...
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Was the LCA in Europe????

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Was the last common ancestor of apes and humans in Europe?  That seems to be the gist of a study published in the PLoS One.  Nicole Mortilla...
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Gallup: Belief in Creationism At All-Time Low

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Color me skeptical, but the Gallup organization has released its latest poll on the acceptance of creationism and the numbers are down.  Ar...
Monday, May 22, 2017

Bryan College Gives Ken Ham Honorary Doctorate in Science

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In what one of my friends calls “perhaps the most perfectly ironic thing to have ever happened,” Bryan College has bestowed upon Ken Ham an...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

Off-Topic: The Troubling State of Social Science

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Skeptic Magazine is reporting on a hilarious (in some ways) hoax that was perpetrated on the world of gender studies.  Two authors, Peter Bo...
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Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Matt Young Not Happy With Treatment of Andrew Snelling

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Neither am I.  It seems that Andrew Snelling, a young earth creationist, wanted to do a geological study of rocks in the Grand Canyon and so...
Friday, May 12, 2017

New Post on Homo naledi From Darrel Falk and Deb Haarsma

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Darrel Falk and Deb Haarsma have teamed up on a new post about the peculiar South African hominin, Homo naledi , a find on which I reported...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Australopithecus sediba Voted Off the Island

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This does not surprise me.  Science Magazine has a short story which suggests strongly that the characteristics in Au. sediba render it uns...
Tuesday, May 09, 2017

A Conversation with Scot McKnight

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Scot McKnight, a New Testament professor at Northern Seminary in Lombard, Illinois, and co-author of Adam and the Genome , with Dennis Venem...
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Surprising New Information About Homo naledi

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The Atlantic (and other outlets) has a story on new information on the date of the Homo naledi fossils from Rising Star Cave and it is...su...
Monday, May 08, 2017

Texas...Again!

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This is a follow-up post to another one on March 21.  Hot on the heels of the Texas State Board of Education striking language in the state ...