Thursday, March 12, 2009

Meanwhile, over in Oklahoma...

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The University of Oklahoma (I interviewed there for a job once...) is sponsoring a "Darwin 2009 Project." Not everybody is happy....

"Peking Man" Fossils Older than Originally Thought

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The fossil hominid skeletal material from Zhoukoudian, the famous "Peking Man" fossils are now thought to date to as early as 780 ...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Don McLeroy, A Profile

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The Austin American-Statesman has a profile of Don McLeroy, the head of the Texas State Board of Education. It is as balanced a piece as i...

A Creationist Tackles the Smithsonian

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The Washington Post has an article on a creation science teacher, David DeWitt, at Liberty University, in Lynchburg, Virginia, who takes hi...
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Saturday, March 07, 2009

The Great Dinosaur Home School Problem

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I am holding in my hands a home school science resource called The Great Dinosaur Mystery and the Bible . It is quite something. It is clea...
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Bob the Builder and Dinosaurs

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Benny the Digger just dug up a plesiasaur on this morning's edition of Bob the builder on PBS. This is after Bob's friend Sandy Bea...

The Discovery Institute on Charles Darwin's Birthday

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Going back a few weeks, I know but the stupid surgery put me behind. Here is an article by Phillip Skell of the DI on Darwin's birthda...
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Friday, March 06, 2009

An Atheist From Norfolk Speaks About the Evolution Survey

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Cath Elliott, from Norfolk writes for the Guardian that: I have to admit I was a bit put out when I realised there would be no atheist bus...
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More on the Vatican Council from Top News

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Top News has an article by Mohit Joshi on the recent Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican. He writes: In September 20...

Catholic Church Goes on Offensive Against Atheism

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Yahoo news reports from the latest Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican. While it has become clear that the Catholic C...
Thursday, March 05, 2009

Catching Up: Carol Hill on the Genesis Flood

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Nice thing about having access to the ASA backfiles: you can find real gems that you might have missed a few years back. Carol Hill wrote a...
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Louisiana Science Education Act: The Downside Continues

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New Orleans CityBusiness has an article on how the signing of the academic freedom has had an impact of business in the city. Subsequent to...

More on the New Mexico "Academic Freedom" Bill

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The bill being promoted by senator Kent Cravens on "academic freedom" has appeared on the radar. Kate Nash of the Santa Fe New Me...

More From Belfast

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The Belfast Newsletter has printed an article on the poll that found that the highest percentage of creationists in the UK are in Ireland. ...
Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Creation/Evolution Belief in the UK

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A story by the Guardian indicates that four in five people in the UK reject creationism in its traditional form. The author writes: The ea...
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Fossil Strengthens Bird/Dinosaur Connexion

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A dinosaur footprint has been discovered that is causing some rethinking about how Dinosaurs walked. The article , in the L.A. Times by Tho...

"Brain and Brain. What is Brain?"

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According to a story in USA Today, the oldest fossilized brain has been found in Kansas (probably not ancestral to the brains of the people...
Monday, March 02, 2009

Still More on the Vatican Conference

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Ann Rodgers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has an article on the upcoming Vatican Conference. She writes: Devout Christians often are port...
Sunday, March 01, 2009

More on the Vatican Conference

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Francis Rocca of the Religion News Service has an article that appears in the WaPo about the upcoming Vatican conference on science. The c...

Back on the Grid

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The surgery went well. Recovery has been painful but not incapacitating, like I thought it might be. I hate catheters. I have actually bee...