Science and Religion: A View from an Evolutionary Creationist

This is a blog detailing the creation/evolution/ID controversy and assorted palaeontological news. I will post news here with running commentary.

Friday, January 26, 2018

Just When You Had Forgotten About Adnan Oktar...

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Adnan Oktar, otherwise known as Harun Yahya is back in the news.  The Hurriyet Daily News recounts the lurid tale: An Istanbul court has ...
Thursday, January 25, 2018

Meanwhile, Over in Scotland...

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Scotland seems to be having its own experiences with young earth creationism.  From Paul Hutcheon of the Sunday Herald : A MEDICAL doctor ...
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Monday, January 22, 2018

Meanwhile, Over in India...

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There has been swift reaction to the statement of India's Union human resource development minister Satyapal Singh’s remarks that evolut...
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Thursday, January 11, 2018

"They Are Digging in the Wrong Place"

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Bodie Hodge has a post on the AiG website that is nothing short of astounding.  AiG is, once again, moving the goalposts .  And who is Bodi...
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Tuesday, January 09, 2018

New Ancestral Native American Population Discovered: The YEC Interpretation

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On the heels of the discovery of the new ancestral Native American DNA, several young earth creationists have claimed that the discovery sup...
Friday, January 05, 2018

New Ancestral Native American Population Discovered

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Science Alerts is running a story about genetic research done to reveal ancestral populations.  Peter Dockrill writes : Sunrise girl-child...
Tuesday, January 02, 2018

Ken Ham's Comments on SES National Conference on Christian Apologetics Called "Unhelpful"

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Ken Ham attacking other Christians?  Gee, who knew?  An article that is running in the Christian Post recounts an exchange between Ham and ...
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Monday, January 01, 2018

A New Darwin Biography Gets Fisked

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Jerry Coyne, a somewhat outspoken atheist and author of the book Why Evolution is True, has written a review of a new book on Darwin titled...
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Thursday, December 28, 2017

Has Noah's Ark Been Found?

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Short answer: no.  But a story in Web Top News would have you believing otherwise.  More than 100 researchers from around the world recen...
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Friday, December 22, 2017

Newsweek Dabbles in Young Earth Creationism

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Kastalia Medrano, of Newsweek, has written a post describing the discovery of a fossilized Antarctic Forest.  The piece starts off innocuous...
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Saturday, December 16, 2017

Modern Humans Came Out of Africa Earlier Than Thought and Did So Multiple Times

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If you have been studying human evolution, this story is not new.We have suspected for some time that humans migrated out of Africa in waves...
Friday, December 15, 2017

Penguin From Hell

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Okay, probably not nearly on the level of the Frog From Hell or the Snake From Hell , but coming into contact with a six-foot penguin would...
Friday, November 24, 2017

New Jebel Irhoud Date Causes Rethink of Chinese Dali Skull

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Newsweek (Yes, that Newsweek) has a story on the reexamination of the Chinese Dali cranium, in light of the revised dates for the Jebel Irho...
Thursday, November 23, 2017

Flat Earth Convention in North Carolina

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Nuts, I wish I could have gone to this. Stephanie Pappas, at Live Science writes : A conference aimed at disputing the idea that the worl...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

ID Supporter Has Wikipedia Page Erased

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Okay, this is just snotty.  Günter Bechly is a palaeontologist who was at the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany.  Recent...
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Sunday, November 19, 2017

Neandertal to Modern Transition Full of Fits and Spurts

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New evidence suggests that Neandertals survived longer on the Iberian peninsula than elsewhere in Europe.   The redating of the Zafarraya N...
Monday, November 13, 2017

And, Apparently, The Stolen Bone is Only One Problem...

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The journal Nature is reporting on a scandal of sizable proportions involving a site of early human occupation in Europe.  Ewen Callaway re...
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Thursday, November 09, 2017

Ken Ham Comes to Alberta

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Young earth creationism is ubiquitous in home school curricula here in the United States.  Ken Ham is trying to make that the case in Canada...
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Thursday, October 19, 2017

Book Purchase: Adam's Quest

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I hate it when books come out that escape my attention.  Such is the case with a book titled Adam's Quest , by Tim Stafford.  In it, Sta...
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Thursday, October 12, 2017

Uh Oh

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Answers in Genesis is expanding into Canada, according the its leader, Ken Ham.  Patheos reports the following : Answers in Genesis, the ...
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I am a Christian, librarian, palaeoanthropologist, and evolutionary biologist with an all-consuming interest in apologetics and controversies in science and religion.
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