Saturday, September 29, 2012

In Case You Happen To Live in Texas...

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The Texas Freedom Network has released a voter's guide to the up-coming State Board of Education elections.  The astonishing thing abou...
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Friday, September 28, 2012

The Fossil Record According to Creationism

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Popular Science usually has some outlandish articles and truly goofy science news.  They ran this howler yesterday.  It is the Geological Ti...
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Fossil Data and Genetic Data More Concurrent Than Thought

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It is now coming out that the “clocks” that are used to calculate mutation rates are badly calibrated. Ewen Callaway of Nature writes : G...
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Monday, September 17, 2012

Very Busy...

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I am working on my next BioLogos post and trying to not fall behind in teaching my class, which, because of the new online format, is eating...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

One of My Favorite Quotes

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My wife and I have been invited to a bible study tonight and, to hear of it, the topic might be the creation/evolution debate. I think it i...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Nature: “Science wins over creationism in South Korea”

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Nature News is reporting that the South Korean government has gone on the offensive, urging textbook makers to ignore requests to remove in...
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Monday, September 10, 2012

Discovery Institute Science and Faith Conference

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The Discovery Institute is running a conference titled Science and Faith: Friends or Foes? on October 12-13 at Covenant Seminary in St. Lou...
Friday, August 31, 2012

More on Modern Human Origins

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Scientific American is running a story on more news from the Max Planck Institute. Now, the entire genome of the hominins represented by t...
Monday, August 27, 2012

Bill Nye on Evolution

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Here is a YouTube clip by Bill Nye on the denial of evolution. It is short and doesn't include a whole lot of information but it is hear...
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Friday, August 24, 2012

Baton Rouge Advocate on Louisiana and the Loch Ness Monster

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In an editorial dated August 19, the editors of the Baton Rouge Advocate address the controversy surrounding the Louisiana voucher program a...

Science News: Tangled Roots

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Bruce Bower of Science News has written a great column that highlights all of the current discoveries/revelations/uncertainties in modern h...

“Not Responsible”

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A friend of mine sent me this. Here is a sign seen at a restaurant. It reminds me of a sign I saw in Rocky Mountain National Park that read...
Friday, August 17, 2012

Shocked! Simply Shocked!

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An amusing (or not) story is coming out of Kentucky where some state representatives have discovered that students are actually being tested...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Todd Wood on the Neandertal Interbreeding Question

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Todd Wood has weighed in on the Neandertal hybridization results in ArXiv with some of his own thoughts and he raised the spectre of incomp...
Monday, August 13, 2012

More on Neandertal Interbreeding from ArXiv

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For some time, Cornell University has been running a pre-print server for physicists so they can bounce papers off of each other. It now se...
Friday, August 10, 2012

Not As Off-Topic As It Might Seem...

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The Tennessean ran a story today about how Thomas Nelson publishers, famous for their line of bibles, is dropping a new book on Thomas Jeff...
Thursday, August 09, 2012

The Discovery Institute vs. The Peppered Moth

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The Discovery Institute claims that a new paper in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology has “debunked” the peppered moth icon of natural se...
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Wednesday, August 08, 2012

Two Hominin Species Running Around At 1.9 Mya

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Meave Leakey and some colleagues 1 have unearthed and described some new fossil hominins from Koobi Fora that seem to confirm that, yes, th...
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Thursday, August 02, 2012

Is Noah's Ark Sinking?

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A reader pointed out a story in Leo Weekly about the newest troubles of the Ark-n-Park, the Noah Ark theme park being built (mostly) by Ans...
Wednesday, August 01, 2012

Gee, This'll Look Good...

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Another Republican has clearly aligned himself with YEC sympathies by holding his fundraiser at the Creation Museum in Kentucky. Steve Dain...
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