Saturday, October 16, 2010

Jerry Coyne On Why Science and Religion Cannot Be Friends

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Jerry Coyne, author of Why Evolution is True , has written a column for USA Today, in which he opines that science and religion cannot coex...
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Thursday, October 14, 2010

The Charles Darwin Two Pound Coin

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Great Britain has released a coin that has Charles Darwin's head and that of a chimpanzee looking at each other. It is in honor of his...
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Jay Richards Asks "Can You Be a Darwinist and a Theist?"

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Jay Richards, editor of the new book God and Evolution , has given us a short taste of what the book is about in a video posted on the DI w...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Richard Dawkins Interview in the Houston Chronicle

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On Sunday, Eric Berger of the Houston Chronicle sat down with Richard Dawkins. Given the stridency with which Dawkins has attacked religio...
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Monday, October 11, 2010

The Future Evolution of Humans

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Futurepundit has an article on " How Will Humans Evolve? " Much of this sort of thing is pure speculation, although there are som...
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Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Textbook Trouble in Florida

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In the first of three articles on the subject, the Orlando Sentinel reported on some trouble that a science textbook publisher has found it...
Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Ah, the Life!

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The Tribune Newspaper of Swartkrans has an article about a former factory manager who is now hunting for fossils in South Africa. Accordin...
Friday, October 01, 2010

Stone Tool Use on Flores Was Earlier Than Previously Thought

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Mike Morwood and Adam Brumm, who have working on the island of Flores have discovered tools that are around one million years old. According...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

Mammals Not So Extinct After All

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A story out of Wired reports that many mammals that have been traditionally thought to be extinct may not be. Brian Switek writes : In orde...

Complexity Can Evolve Without High Cost

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Was R.A. Fisher wrong? It has always been thought that with complexity comes a general lack of evolutionary adaptability. The consensus ab...
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Sunday, September 26, 2010

Neandertals as Advanced as Early Modern Humans?

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This is something that I have thought for years. In contrast to the preceding story that I posted, it has been advanced that Neandertals we...
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Volcanoes Responsible for Neandertal Extinction?

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National Geographic has picked up a story in which it is argued that the European populations of Neandertals became extinct because of the e...
Saturday, September 25, 2010

British Humanists Want Legal Action to Keep Creationism Out of the Classroom

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The British Humanist Association is concerned that, while the government has pledged that there will be no creationism in the classrooms, th...

The Lack of Correlation Between Anti-Global Warming Advocates and ID

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As of late, supporters of ID have argued that they have been persecuted for their positions and that the support of such is no different tha...
Friday, September 24, 2010

Science and Religion: Always in "Mortal Combat?"

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Matthew Reicz of the Times Higher Educational Supplement has an interesting article on the conflict between religion and science.He writes:...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Huge Fossil Find in California

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BBC America is reporting on a find in California that will be a boon for researchers in the area. According to the story: The fossil haul ...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Freshwater Documents up at NCSE

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The National Center for Science Education has all of the documents concerning the John Freshwater case up on their site here. It is quite a...
Friday, September 17, 2010

Richard Dawkins' Problem

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It is that none of his opponents seem to be coming to his lectures. As Andrew John in Digital Journal writes : Of his travels in the USA’s...
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Christine O'Donnell: Trouble For Science Education In Delaware?

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New York News and Features has an article on Christine O'Donnell, the woman who surprisingly upset GOP favorite Mike Castle to win the ...
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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Evolution Wars: A Guide to the Debates

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Research and Markets has expanded their holdings to include a new report called Evolution Wars: A Guide to the Debate . If you have access ...