Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Light Posting

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I am gathering information for the first chapter of this book that I am trying to get written. As a result, I will be posting less informat...

The Great Debate

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The Free Library has a story on the round of debates going on between Chris Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Dinesh D'Souza, Lee Strobel and ...
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Monday, July 28, 2008

Evolution and ID: A Compromise?

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In an article written by Amy Binder and John Evans, the authors wonder whether or not a compromise can be reached in the teaching of evoluti...

Ben Stein on Foxnews

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Ben Stein had an interesting exchange with Chris Wallace on Foxnews: WALLACE: Do you believe that evolution and intelligent design should b...

Meanwhile, Over in Indonesia...

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According to local scholars, the teaching of evolution is a problem in Indonesia, as well. Doesn't this sound familiar ? Like the U.S....
Friday, July 25, 2008

A Zen Rebuttal to Chris Hitchens

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The Gazette has published a rebuttal to Chris Hitchens by Albert Low, the director of the Montreal Zen Center. He writes : To feel that cre...
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A New Complete Dinosaur Skeleton

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A new dinosaur skeleton has been described from the Gobi Desert in China. It is a juvenile Tarbosaurus from the Cretaceous. As the story n...
Thursday, July 24, 2008

Chris Hitchens and the Salamander Eye

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Chris Hitchens has an article that appears in the CanWest Gazette called The eyes have it . Hitchens waxes about the salamanders that live ...

Creationism in Iowa...Again

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A community college professor has won a $20 000 wrongful termination settlement against Southwestern Community College in Creston because he...
Monday, July 21, 2008

A Plug for The Quest for Right

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Reader C. David Parsons suggests, in reference to my post on the Texas State Board of Education, that the board ought to adopt the seven boo...

Anti-Evolutionism, Turkish Style

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LGF, once again, posts a link to a radio broadcast that occurred last year, in which it is revealed that the Discovery Institute and the Ins...
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Evolution of the Eye

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Charles Johnson, the creator and moderator of the blog Little Green Footballs , a blog I ordinarily look to for political commentary (It was...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008

News From Texas and a Startling Revelation

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Janet Phelps of The Bryan College Station Eagle, writes that teachers are agitated about the new legislation paralleling that in Louisiana....
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Carl Zimmer on the DI and Tiktaalik

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Carl Zimmer has written a piece on his Discover blog in which he takes aim at the latest circular from the Discovery Institute on Tiktaalik...
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Dan Gardner on the Templeton Foundation

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Dan Gardner, of the Ottawa Citizen, has a long piece on the Templeton Foundation and the extravagant prize that it bestows once a year to a...

How'd I Miss This??

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It seems that the government made good on its threat to imprison Dr. Dino, Kent Hovind. Back in late 2006, no less. Here is the story. ...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Gordon Glover on "Appearance of Age"

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Gordon Glover over at Beyond the Firmament has an excellent discussion on the old creationism stand-by, appearance of age. He writes: Cons...

Intelligent Design and Canada

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The Star has a story about the rise of Intelligent Design in Canada. Brian Alters is the director of the Evolution Education Research Cent...
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Friday, July 11, 2008

Expelled on Rotten Tomatoes

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Here is the Expelled! No Intelligence Allowed page on Rotten Tomatoes. It is not pretty. Although the US box office numbers are around 7...

John Derbyshire on John West and Academic Freedom Legislation

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John Derbyshire, no friend of creationism in any of its forms, takes aim at the academic freedom legislation that was just recently passed i...