Tuesday, February 05, 2019

Charles Darwin and the “Christian Right”

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Interesting.  Nobody ever talks about the “anti-Christian left.” They are always referred to as “progressives” as though their ideas are br...

Darwin Day Celebration in Knoxville

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On Saturday, February 16, there will be a Darwin Day celebration at the Frank H. McClung Museum on the University of Tennessee Campus.  Here...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

New Florida Bill Would Advocate Teaching of Controversial Subjects

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Emily Mahoney of the Tampa Bay Times writes that a new bill by senator Dennis Baxley (R, of course) has been promoted to allow teachers to ...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Mutation Rate in Humans Has Slowed Down

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I am not quite sure what this means, yet. Researchers at the Aarhus University, Denmark, and the Copenhagen Zoo have discovered that, when c...
Friday, January 25, 2019

New BioLogos Post on Stone Tool Discovery in China

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My BioLogos post on the stone tool discovery at the Chinese site of Shangchen is up.  Comments welcome here and there.
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

My Favorite Fossil Post Up on BioLogos

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Unbeknownst to me, my “My Favorite Fossil” post on BioLogos is up .  You can view it here.  Comments welcome in both places. 
Friday, January 18, 2019

'Swiss Army knife of prehistoric tools' Found in China

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Science Daily is on a roll.  This came out a bit back during the late semester crunch and I didn't get a chance to post about it.  Stone...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

New Data on Neandertal Anatomy

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Anatomists have reconstructed the rib cage of the Kebara 2 Neandertal to get a better understanding of the trunk of our nearest relatives.  ...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Meanwhile, in Indiana

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From the NCSE comes a story of new legislation being pushed in Indiana that would require public schools to teach young earth creationism. ...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

The Brain of Little Foot

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Science Daily had a story just a bit back about research done on the new information surrounding the Little Foot australopithecine remains f...
Friday, January 04, 2019

Creationism Linked to Conspiracy Theories?

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In a remarkably ham-fisted article, Medical Xpress is peddling the notion that belief in creationism and conspiracy theories are linked .  T...
Thursday, December 20, 2018

British Columbia Leading War in Canada against Creationism...Or Is It?

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Support for young earth creationism is, apparently, somewhat variable when it comes to the different Canadian provinces.  This is not surpri...
Monday, December 10, 2018

Little Foot Finally Extricated

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Nature News is reporting on the excavation and description of "Little Foot," a fossil initially discovered twenty years ago by Ron...
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

BioLogos: My Favorite Fossil

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BioLogos is running a little series called "My Favorite Fossil."  Here is one by Ryan Bebej on Maiacetus inuus , a fossil whale.  ...
Monday, November 26, 2018

50th Anniversary of Epperson

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The fiftieth anniversary of Susan Epperson's battle to overturn the Arkansas anti-evolution law came a few days ago.  Scientific America...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Diane Douglas Unsuccessful at Limiting Evolution in Arizona Public Schools

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Ars Technica is reporting that Diane Douglas, who had campaigned on editing the Arizona public school science standaards, has lost a primary...
Monday, October 15, 2018

Neandertal Teeth 450Ky Old Found in Italy

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The Smithsonian is reporting that excavations in Italy have uncovered teeth dated to 450 thousand years ago that have Neandertal character...
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 ...