Sunday, June 07, 2009

Michael Reiss Speaks Out

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The Times Online has an article on Michael Reiss, the former Director of Education at the Royal Society who was forced to resign following ...
Saturday, June 06, 2009

The New Texas Science Standards and What is Wrong With Them

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The NCSE has a story about what is wrong with the new science standards crafted by the Texas State Board of Education. It is found in the n...
Friday, June 05, 2009

After All, If You Can't Laugh at Yourself...

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The June 4 issue of Current Biology contains a study indicating that laughter goes back beyond the ape-human split. The article , in Thaindi...

Teaching Evolution at the Grade School Level

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The Harborough Mail has an article on a contest held by a local public school on how life would evolve on different alien landscapes. Here...
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Thursday, June 04, 2009

Acts & Fiction: Werner Arber and the ICR, Again

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Lawrence Ford of the ICR has a rebuttal article in this month's Acts & Facts , in which he supports Jerry Bergman's original co...

How a Headline Can Get Away From You

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IO9 has a story on the 12 mya primate find from Spain with the unfortunate headline: "12 Million Year Old Hominid With Human Features ...

With Friends Like These...

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The John Birch Society got together to trash evolution in Roxbury, Massachusetts, recently. The society, which has always been marginalized...
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Two Bills Die in Texas Legislature

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The NCSE is reporting on two bills that have died on the vine. The first one is the exemption bill for the ICR that would allow them to op...
Wednesday, June 03, 2009

New Edited Volume by Ronald Numbers

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The Globe and Mail has an article on a new book edited by Ronald Numbers, who wrote the exceptional book The Creationists . The new book, c...

Out of Europe????

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Bob Holmes of the New Scientist is reporting on a spectacular find in Spain of a 12 million year old primate that seems to show characteris...

As Climate Changes, So Do Animals' Diets

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A story in e! Science News reports that researchers from The University of Florida have conducted a study of mammalian teeth and discovered...
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Yup, I Want One of These, Too.

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Red Orbit has a story on a Triceratops skull that just sold for $242 000. The auction house didn't reveal the name of the buyer. Stil...
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Ancient Hippos in North America

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Randy Boswell of Canwest has a story of some hippo remains that have been discovered in Ellesmere Island (a hotbed of temperate fossils), s...
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Need a Copy of On the Origins of Species?

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There is one for sale for a mere 10 to 15 000 pounds. Virgin Media reports that a first edition copy of the book is for sale: Only 1,250 w...

The Dilemma of Rick Perry

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The Fort Worth Star-Telegram has an article on the current dilemma of Rick Perry, who's renomination of Don McLeroy as head of the Texa...

Meanwhile, in Manitoba There be Fossils!

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Chinta Puxley of the Manitoba Daily Gleaner is telling her readers to come dig for prehistoric sea creatures. She writes: It's about a...
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Monday, June 01, 2009

Science, Ken Ham and Common Ground

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Shelly Emling of the Atlanta Journal Constitution profiles Ken Ham of the Creation Museum in Kentucky as part of a larger article on the ga...
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Another Reason to Visit Utah

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Pat Bagley of the The Salt Lake City Tribune has an article on the rich heritage of dinosaur remains that the state has provided over the y...

New Scientist Rains on Ida's Parade

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An article in the New Scientist suggests that Ida is no sort of missing link at all and is not even on the path to later hominoids. They ...

Finding Dinosaurs in Alberta

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In Alberta, Canada, which is the home of the largest creation museum in Canada, the Big Valley Creation Museum the local palaeontologists h...