Saturday, October 30, 2010

The Discovery Institute Wastes a Golden Opportunity and Shows Its True Colors

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Steve Matheson, in response to the news that BioLogos and the Discovery Institute would be part of a larger symposium on the nature of scien...
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Friday, October 29, 2010

Ramping Up to Tuesday

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There are races all over the country and one of the topics on everyone's minds seems to be evolution. From the Kansas City Star we have...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

Christine O'Donnell and Teaching Creationism

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Delaware Online has a story about the Christine O’Donnell/Chris Coons debate that has gotten the blogosphere so riled up on both sides of t...
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Sunday, October 24, 2010

Stand Up for Science Asks: Are God and Keplerism Compatible?

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The Panda’s Thumb points us to a hilarious story from the blog “Stand Up for Real Science.” It is a parody of the recent Discovery Institut...
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Thursday, October 21, 2010

NPR: Feckless, Gutless and Intolerant

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The story posted below was the last NPR story that I will post. The firing of Juan Williams, one of the most fair and even correspondents I...
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

NPR Tackles Linneaus

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Linnaeus, if you remember your biological history, is the man responsible for the binomial classification scheme that we now use to taxonomi...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

John Freshwater Update

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Panda's Thumb has an update on the John Freshwater case titled The Defense Goes Fishing . Richard Hoppe writes: The defense in Freshwate...

The Friendly Atheist on “The Whole Truth”

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Since this seems to be the theme of the week, I noticed that the Friendly Atheist has a piece on how pushy atheists should be when confront...
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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...