Science and Religion: A View from an Evolutionary Creationist

This is a blog detailing the creation/evolution/ID controversy and assorted palaeontological news. I will post news here with running commentary.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Frame-Shift Mutation Linked to Sympatric Speciation in Early Homo?

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According to (new?) research from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, a mutation creating a slightly different sugar...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Kraken from Hell?

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Science Daily has an unusual piece about some maybe evidence of a huge prehistoric beast that roamed the oceans.  The lede paragraph is qui...

CFSI To Cease Operations

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Sadly the Center for Faith and Science International will be shutting its doors at the end of the year, a casualty of the rotten economy in ...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

New CFSI Post Up

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My new post for the Center for Faith and Science International is up.  It deals, in considerably more civil fashion, with the Ken Ham/BioLo...
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Saturday, October 08, 2011

T.M. Moore and Aliens

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T.M. Moore has an excellent post on the subject of aliens and Christianity over at the Center for Faith and Science International.  Amongs...
Friday, October 07, 2011

Limb Development and Our “Inner Fish”

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Science Daily has a story on research delineating the relationship between us and fish.  The work, which examined some cartilaginous fish, a...
Thursday, October 06, 2011

Mary Sue Asks “Did Jesus Save Alien Races, Too?”

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Off-Topic: the Mary Sue, a site for “Geek Girl Culture” has an article about a convention that occurred recently called the 100 year Starsh...
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Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Yeti Hunters

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The Daily Mail has a story on a group of Russian and American scientists who are on the track of a group of Siberian Yeti.  Will Stewart wr...
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Saturday, October 01, 2011

Ken Ham on BioLogos and Proper Interpretation of the Scripture

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I have resisted posting on this, after reading Darrel's response to it but, after reflection, I think it needs some response. Ken Ham h...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Holy Jurassic Park, Batman!

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Wired has a story on “ How to hatch a dinosaur ” by Thomas Hayden. He writes: Over the past several decades, paleontologists—including [...
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Friday, September 23, 2011

Leonard Steinhorn Wants to Know How The GOP Became the Anti-Science Party

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Writing for HufPo, Leonard Steinhorn has some comments on the GOP and the race for their nomination.  He writes: It would be easy to take...
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

“Out-of-Africa Replacement Model”: Piling On

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On the heels of the recent DNA arguments supporting hybridization between early modern Homo sapiens and archaic Homo sapiens in Africa com...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Where Did the Cretaceous Birds Go?

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As evidence continues to pile up supporting the theropod dinosaur-to-bird transition, the question has arisen: where did all of the Cretaceo...
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No Dinos in Heaven Screening at New York Academy of Sciences

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Laure Parsons writes that there will be a screening of the movie No Dinos in Heaven at the New York Academy of Sciences on October 25, 2011...
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Agitation Against Creationism in the UK

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David Attenborough has joined a group of scientists who are arguing that the government must forcefully ban the teaching of creationism in s...

Svante Pääbo: DNA clues to our inner Neanderthal

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Here is short video in which Svante Pääbo gives a short presentation on "Your Inner Neanderthal."
Monday, September 19, 2011

Crocodile From Hell

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First we had the Frog From Hell , then we had the Snake From Hell and now, it seems, that we have the Crocodile From Hell .   National Geog...
Friday, September 16, 2011

Sigmund Comments on the BioLogos/Discovery Institute Rift

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Jerry Coyne has a guest post on his blog by Sigmund.  Sigmund has noticed the bad feelings between the Discovery Institute and BioLogos and ...
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Thursday, September 15, 2011

New CFSI Post Up

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My new post is up over at the Center for Faith and Science International, on conservatism and evolution.  Comments, as always, are welcome ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

David Klinghoffer, Evolution and Conspiracy Theories

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Give David Klinghoffer credit for tenacity, or what Linus van Pelt called “mule-headedness.”  Not content to link Hitler and the Discovery ...
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I am a Christian, librarian, palaeoanthropologist, and evolutionary biologist with an all-consuming interest in apologetics and controversies in science and religion.
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