Thursday, July 16, 2009

Teach Both Sides of the Controversy Cartoon

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Whenever I hear someone say we need to teach both sides of the creation/evolution controversy, I am tempted to show them this cartoon. I do...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Stephen Meyer on Thomas Jefferson and ID

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Stephen Meyer of the Discovery Institute has an article in the Boston Globe on how Thomas Jefferson would view ID. He writes: In 1823, whe...
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Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Bunch

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Dakota Voice is writing that thousands of Darwin's Bible are being distributed to members of the National Education Association at their...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Early Life and the "Snowball Earth"

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Evidence is building that between 850 and 500 million years, the earth was subjected to a series of mega-ice ages that resulted in a conditi...
Monday, July 13, 2009

New Dinosaur Burrows in Australia

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The Hindu News has an article on dinosaur burrows that have been discovered in Australia. Quoth the article: On the heels of his discover...

Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Genius?

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The Times Online has an article by Philip Ball that is a review of the book The Selfish Genius, by Fern Elsdon-Baker, who has, it seems, a ...
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The Discovery Institute and Free Speech

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Apparently, the Discovery Institute has a peculiar idea of what constitutes free speech and when. If you remember, Don Exodus, who put up t...

Texas Curveball

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Governor Rick Perry has decided to forgo the appointment of Cynthia Dunbar and, instead, appoint a newspaper publisher Gail Lowe to lead the...
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Steve Martin Has a Follow-up Post on the ESE

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Steve Martin has a follow-up post on the Evangelical Statement of Evolution . He has some very good points that those of us that profess to...
Sunday, July 12, 2009

Rumblings in Kentucky

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The Kentucky Board of Education is still debating about who to appoint as their head. According to a story in the Lexington Herald Leader,...
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Saturday, July 11, 2009

"Darwinism" and its Meanings

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Eugenie Scott and Glenn Branch have written a short article in Evolution: Education and Outreach, on the term "Darwinism." I have...
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Icon to Distribute the Film Creation

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Icon Pictures will distribute the new film on the life of Charles Darwin, called Creation . According to Market Wire : Darwin's great, ...
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Francis Collins Chosen to Run NIH

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Barack Obama has chosen Francis Collins to run the National Institutes of Health. Collins, if you remember, was the head of the Human Genom...
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Friday, July 10, 2009

Arizona's Educated Legislators

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LGF has found a video of Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen actually saying that the earth doesn't need environmental regulation because...

Perry Leaning Toward Appointing Cynthia Dunbar

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Just when you thought it was safe to go back to Texas, Garry Scharrer, of the Houston Chronicle, reports that Texas governor Rick Perry is...

More on the Differences Between Scientists and Non-Scientists

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Dan Vergano of USA Today has a story on how the public perceives science and how scientists perceive themselves. For example: •Evolution. 3...
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Thursday, July 09, 2009

Nut-Eating Dinosaur Found

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According to a story in the Chicago Sun-Times by Maudlyne Ihejirika, a fossil dinosaur has been discovered that ate nuts. The story notes:...

Creation, Evolution and Closed Minds

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According to a story in the Australian, a new article called Science communication reconsidered, in the journal Nature Biotechnology sugge...

DesMoines Addresses Evolution (Sort of)

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The DesMoines answer to the problem of evolution is to make a class that critiques it an elective. The Spencer School District, according t...
Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Should I or Shouldn't I?

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One of our church friends gave my wife a video by the ICR and said "Jim should watch this." My wife, being the sensible person s...
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