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.

Saturday, September 22, 2018

Did the LCA Have Teeth More Like a Gorilla?

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Artificial intelligence is playing a role in understanding human evolution.  From the Australian site News.com comes a story about new work...
Friday, September 21, 2018

World's Oldest Animal Identified

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A story in CNN (linked from elsewhere) reports that the world's oldest fossil has now been dated.  Rob Picheta writes : The oldest know...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

God, Marriage and Kent Hovind

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If you have been following the trials and tribulations of Kent Hovind, you will know that he was once known as "Dr. Dino" and has ...
Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Suzanne Sadedin: Is There A Place For Evolution In Intelligent Design?

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Suzanne Sadedin, writing for Forbes, wonders if there is room for evolution in the Intelligent Design Movement.  This article came out almos...
Monday, September 17, 2018

Trouble in Arizona

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Okay, time to get back in the saddle.  The Arizona Republic is running a story out of Arizona that is very disconcerting: Here is a bit o...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Neandertal/Denisovan Hybrid?

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As J. Lawrence Angel once said: “When two groups of people meet, they may fight, but they will always mate.”  A story is now coming out of R...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

More Evidence of Complex Tool Creation By Archaic Homo sapiens

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New excavations at Boxgrove, a site which dates from approximately 300 thousand years ago has yielded tools that show more complex creation ...
Monday, August 13, 2018

Homo erectus Was Lazy??

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A short piece in PhysOrg links to an article in PLoS that argues that, when faced with the opportunity to make Acheulean tools out of real...
Monday, August 06, 2018

Dear Arizona Residents: Vote For Jonathan Gelbart

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AZ Central is reporting that of the five GOP candidates running for superintendent of schools, four of them support the teaching of creation...
Monday, July 30, 2018

Crossway: Bible Reading Habits and Ken Ham's Reaction

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Crossway conducted a survey to find out which parts of the Bible Christians read and how often.  The results are not surprising .  Most peop...
Thursday, July 12, 2018

New Chinese Material Pushes the Exit From Africa to 2.1 mya

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Nature is reporting research on new Chinese material that strongly suggests that the Georgian site of Dmanisi is not the earliest location t...
Saturday, July 07, 2018

Texas...Again

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Texas has, once again, waded into the waters of the evolution/creation controversy.  The Texas Tribune reports that wording that is claimed...
Friday, July 06, 2018

Todd Friel: The Holy Spirit Taught Them That the Earth Was Young

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This is heresy.  Straight up. Sorry for the light posting. I have been extremely busy and have not had time to devote to it.  I am taking ...
Monday, May 28, 2018

Arizona: More Whack-a-Mole

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Now, Arizona educators are considering watering down the definition of evolution in the state curriculum guidelines.  AP has the story : T...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

Fred Clark on the Cruelty of Young Earth Creationism

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Ken Ham is fond of saying that the reason that many young people are falling away from the faith is because they have been indoctrinated int...
Thursday, May 17, 2018

World Religion News: Human Evolution Exhibit Censored to Avoid Offending Ultra-Orthodox Jews

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It seems that even Judaism has a wing that rejects evolution.  Gee, who knew.  World Religion News has the story : Authorities of Jerusale...
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

How Intelligent Was Homo naledi?

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Discover Magazine (and other outlets) are running a story which questions how important cranial size is to overall intelligence.  The focus...
Friday, May 11, 2018

Truth is Stranger than Fiction: Galapagos Creationism Center to be Built

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The Adventist News Network is reporting that a new creationism center will be built on the Galapagos Islands: A large incentive project f...
Sunday, May 06, 2018

What in the Hay-ull is Wrong with These People??

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Yankees pitcher German was just yanked in the top of the seventh while throwing a no-hitter.  I hate these managers!!!!  In 1972, Preston Go...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

New Laetoli Footprints Demonstrate Full Bipedality

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A story running in Newsweek and the Washington Post (and other outlets, presumably), details research into the newly discovered fossil foot...
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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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