Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Slow Going

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I am on page 33 of Bones of Contention. This is going to take awhile. So far, there has been either a logical error or a factual error on ...

The AAAS Gets Involved

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The American Association for the Advancement of Science is urging mainline denominations to get involved in fighting "policies that un...

A clarification

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The book by Marvin Lubenow, Bones of Contention , was revised in 2004. In the preface, he write that the new edition is "largely rewri...
Monday, February 20, 2006

Bones of Contention

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Following on the heels of OPAP, in a continuing effort to be as mean to myself as possible, I am going to read the creationist classic Bones...
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Thursday, February 16, 2006

Ohio Vote

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It seems that the Ohio Board of Education has decided against the model plan that singled out evolution for critical analysis and suggested ...

Of Pandas and People, Part 3

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Two of the central concepts in understanding descent with modification are analogy and homology. Analogy is where different anatomical struc...
Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Father Jonathan Morris on Foxnews

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Father Jonathan Morris, On Foxnews tackles the ID issue in decidedly antagonistic tone. He writes: Unlike thinkers of ages past, who inter...

Ohio Reverses its Stance on ID

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It seems that the Ohio Board of Education is rethinking its stance on the teaching of ID in classrooms. As the NYT article (free subscript...
Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Darwin Day at Tennessee

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Darwin Day has come and gone and was a rousing success. Dr. Tim Berra spoke on Charles Darwin Thursday Night and then his Australian projec...
Thursday, February 09, 2006

Of Pandas and People, Part 2

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This is part 2 of my short review of the abyssmal book Of Pandas and People , the preferred textbook of the Discovery Institute. We'll ...
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Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Darwin Day at UT

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Darwin Day celebrations are in full swing now. Tonight there is a talk by the Rev. Michael Dowd called "The Gospel According to Evolut...
Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Of Pandas and People

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I have finished Reading Of Pandas and People. To recap: in the Dover School Board ruling, it was revealed that the disclaimer read to the hi...
Monday, February 06, 2006

Sky Guy on Evolution

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Sky Guy in the Knoxville News Sentinel (free subscription required), tackles evolution in advance of Darwin Day here at UT. He uses exactl...
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Friday, February 03, 2006

"Intelligent Falling"

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The Onion reports on a new take on Intelligent Design, known as "Intelligent Falling." I leave it to the reader to determine how s...

Evolution in the Lab

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Scientists have forced evolution to occur in caterpillars. This story from Fox News relates the attempts to alter the color of the caterpi...

Sorry about the silence

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Blogging has been light. I am digesting Of Pandas and People , which figured so heavily into the Dover School Board decision. So far, I am ...
Monday, January 23, 2006

NYT: When Cosmologies Collide

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The Grey Lady has yet another article on ID, called " When Cosmologies Collide ." This is an article on competing philosophies an...
Thursday, January 19, 2006

The Vatican weighs in again.

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Writing for the Grey Lady, Ian Fisher and Cornelia Dean note an article published in L'Osservatore, the official Vatican newspaper whic...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

As goes Dover, so goes the rest of the world?

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Catherine Candisky writes for the Columbia Dispatch that the Ohio State Board of Education narrowly (9-8) retained state guidelines that, c...
Friday, January 13, 2006

Not even in a philosophy class...

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The New York Times has reported that a law suit has been filed on behalf of 11 parents of students of Frazier Mountain High School in Lebec...