Thursday, January 29, 2009

Jerry Coyne on the Intersection of Science and Faith

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LGF points out a review of two books on science and faith by Jerry Coyne, University of Chicago, who concludes that the two cannot be recon...
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Sick as a dog at home with a fever of 101.3. Boo Hiss. On the other hand, A Flock of Dodos arrived in the mail yesterday so at least I wi...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

More Evidence of Dinosaurs With Feathers

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The Liaoning shale fossil beds, which Donald Prothero mentions extensively in his chapter called "Dinosaurs Evolve—And Fly!" in hi...

A Biochemist Speaks Out:

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At the PoliGazette, a biochemist, who identifies herself only as "Claudia" has written a post explaining how evolutionary theory ...
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Monday, January 26, 2009

Texas: How Some Parochial Schools Teach Evolution

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The San Antonio Express-News has an article on how some parochial schools are handling the teaching of evolution. It is an object lesson f...

Open Letter to Barbara Cargill

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Also in the Houston Chronicle story , one of the SBOE members was quoted as saying: “There are many, many gaps that don’t link species chan...
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The Texas Science Standards: Not Taking No For an Answer

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According to a story in the Houston Chronicle, several members of the Texas State Board of Education are trying to do an end run around the...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

Answers in Genesis and the "Mess in Texas"

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AIG has an article on the science standards battle down in Texas. Here is their take: The board of education in Texas took testimony this...
Saturday, January 24, 2009

The New Scientist and the "Tree of Life"

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Ecographica has an article castigating the New Scientist for its cover stating that "Darwin was Wrong" and the accompanying arti...
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Friday, January 23, 2009

Steven Schafersman Liveblogging the Texas SBOE Meeting

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Here is Steve Schafersman's blog of the meeting at the SBOE in Texas that wound up (by one vote) stripping the "strengths and weak...

Board Votes Against "Weaknesses" Language

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Pop the corks. The Texas State Board of Education voted against the inclusion of the "strengths and weaknesses" language in the E...

More on the Board Vote Today

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My San Antonio has an article on the SBOE vote today on the Earth and Space Science standards. They note: Science and religion collide tod...

Human Habitation in England Pushed Back to 600k

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An article in the Somerset News is reporting on research done at the caves at Mendip Hill that has pushed back human habitation of the regi...
Thursday, January 22, 2009

Misrepresentation at the Texas SBOE

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Josh Rosenau at Thoughts from Kansas has an amazing article on how the work of Nobel Prize winner Werner Arber was completely misrepresente...
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Meanwhile, in Mississippi...

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A Republican state representative has drafted a bill that will require a disclaimer in the front of all science textbooks in the state. He...
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Deception, Texas-Style

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According to LGF, there have now been attacks on the other areas of the Texas science standards because they deal with the age of the earth ...
Monday, January 19, 2009

It Snowed Today...

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Knoxville's relationship with snow is fleeting at best, but today, against the forecast of "cloudy," it snowed some two inches...

Evolution: Multiple Beneficial Mutations in One Generation

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The Science Examiner is reporting that out of Texas A&M is coming research indicating that evolution is more dynamic than originally th...
Saturday, January 17, 2009

Texas Redux

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On January 2, I posted that the new Texas science standards passed without the "strengths and weaknesses" language that was so de...
Friday, January 16, 2009

Louisiana: A Few More Unanswered Questions

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A story on KATC.com reveals a bit more about the angst that the science teachers are feeling about the new Board of Elementary and Secondar...