Saturday, January 30, 2010

The Last Neandertals and Climate Change

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Joao Zilhao is now suggesting that the last surviving Neandertals had to have died out around 37 ky, rather than 27 ky which is what has bee...
Friday, January 29, 2010

Bringing a Galapagos Tortoise Back to Life

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Researchers suggest that the Galapagos Tortoise Chelonoidis elephantopus might be brought back to life. The tortoise was hunted to extinct...

Bipedalism and Tool Use: Connected?

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It has been generally thought that the evolution of bipedality, which we now suspect took place in a forested environment sometime between 4...
Thursday, January 28, 2010

Thoughts from Kansas: Creation vs. Expelled at the Box Office

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Josh Rosenau has been tracking the box office numbers of Creation against those of Expelled! His take: Darwin biopic Creation premiered ...

The Shrinking Primate Brain

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According to a story from Yahoo news UK and Ireland, research now suggests that some primate brains, which have always been thought to be e...

The Charles Darwin Bobblehead

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The University of Hawai'i in Manoa is having a Darwin birthday fundraiser for the library featuring a Charles Darwin bobblehead. I inte...
Tuesday, January 26, 2010

An Alternative to the Clergy Letter?

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You knew this was coming. A story in the Christian NewsWire reports on efforts to get churches to ditch "evolution Sunday." The...
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Fat Birds

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It seems that the ancestors of emus and cassowaries became too heavy for flight quite a bit back. Discovery News reports : The study used m...
Monday, January 25, 2010

Initial Evolution of Life Non-Darwinian??

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Spock: "Well, its life, Jim, but not as we know it." New Scientist has an article on the evolution of early life in which it is ...

Rick Warren : Everybody's Preacher

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Jeffery Sheler of the FreeLibrary has an interesting article on Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church and author of the many books on th...
Friday, January 22, 2010

Chinese Death Pits

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According to the Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta, researchers from the United States, Canada and China have solved a mystery dat...
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Thursday, January 21, 2010

David Schwimmer: Creationism as a Cultural Issue

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David Schwimmer, a professor of geology and chemistry at Columbia State University argues that creationism is more a cultural phenomenon th...
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Friday, January 15, 2010

The Nexus of Politics and Science

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Politics has reared its ugly head in the Calfornia Science Center case in which it is alleged that they cancelled the film Darwin's Dile...

Christine Comer Honored by AU

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Americans United for the Separation of Church and State has given Christine Comer their Religious Liberty Award for her 27 years of science...
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Thursday, January 14, 2010

William Dembski "Admits" to Something We Pretty Much Already Knew

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Ed Brayton of Dispatches from the Culture Wars has called William Dembski on the carpet for being a creationist. The problem is that we ha...

Eugenie Scott Receives NAS Public Welfare Medal

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Eugenie Scott, the executive director of the National Center for Science Education, received the Public Welfare Medal from the National Acad...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Darrel Falk Reviews Signature in the Cell

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Darrel Falk of the BioLogos Foundation has also read Stephen Meyer's Signature in the Cell. He strongly recommends the book on philos...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Hominids Ahoy!

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It turns out that archaic Homo sapiens or perhaps even Homo erectus may have actually taken to the water in some sort of light craft. Br...

Neandertals Driven to Extinction?

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DNAIndia is reporting on research done by Steve Churchill, at Duke which indicates that humans were hunted or driven to extinction by the i...
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Monday, January 11, 2010

Ayala Review of Signature in the Cell

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Francisco Ayala, one of the world's preeminent evolutionary biologists and a former Dominican Priest has a review of Stephen Meyer'...
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