Monday, December 31, 2012

Environment Highly Variable For Early Humans

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The Telegraph is reporting a story out of PNAS that suggest that the environment was highly variable during a critical point in our evoluti...
Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Update on the Indiana Bill

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The Lafayette Journal and Courier has run a story on the Indiana bill, in which the motivations of Dennis Kruse become clear.  From an unsig...

More Hijinks in Indiana

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Indiana senator Dennis Kruse has proposed another creationism bill that hews more to the Discovery Institute talking points, in an effort to...
Monday, December 24, 2012

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Isaiah 11: 1-5  A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse;      from his roots a Branch will bear fruit. 2  The Spirit of the Lord wil...
Friday, December 21, 2012

More On the Orleans Parish School Board Decision

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The Advocate has a story on the reaction to the decision by the Orleans parish school board's decision to push ID and young earth creati...

Update to Orleans Parish Story

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Glenn Branch of the NCSE has this to add to the Orleans Parish move to abolish teaching ID and YEC in the parish schools: Why were these ...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

Orleans Parish Does Away With Young Earth Creationism and ID

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HuffPo is reporting that the Orleans Parish school board has informed their teachers that they are not to teach ID or young earth creationis...
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Slightly Off-Topic: Mutating Neutrinos and Other Complete Nonsense

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The Los Angeles Times is airing a story describing how NASA is being deluged with calls from people thinking that the world is going to end...
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Friday, December 14, 2012

Jeffrey Shallit: The Sterility of Intelligent Design

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Jeffrey Shallit notes, in Recursivity,  the lack of grounded research in the intelligent design community.  He writes : Here is a perfect ...
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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Piltdown Back in the News

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The study of palaeoanthropology has, over the course of its existence, two large mysteries: whatever became of the Peking Man remains, and w...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

The Floating Dutchman

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Johan Huibers, a Dutch creationist, has finished his functional model of Noah's Ark and parked it in Dordrecht harbor.  Toby Sterling o...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Well, That Didn't Take Long...

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Answers in Genesis has a response to the recent comments by Pat Robertson exhorting Christians to accept modern science. Dr. Tommy Mitchell...
Thursday, December 06, 2012

Related: Pastafarians demand equal access to Pennsylvania courthouse holiday display

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Tracy McPherson believes in the Flying Spaghetti Monster.  So much so, that she wrote to the Chester County Commissioners in Pennsylvania t...
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Wednesday, December 05, 2012

WSJ: Acceptance or Rejection of Evolution Not Core Christian Belief

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Joshua Swamidass, writing in the Wall Street Journal admonishes us to remember that acceptance or rejection of evolution is not a core Chri...
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Friday, November 30, 2012

Pat Robertson Goes Rogue

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In a response to a question on the 700 Club , Pat Robertson, head of CBN and Regent University in Virginia Beach, caused many jaws to drop w...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

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Trying to get moved from one house to another, finish up the semester in the next week and finish a BioLogos post.  Not much time for bloggi...
Monday, November 19, 2012

Governor Jindal: Please Practice What You Preach

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Herb Silverman has written an editorial in the Washington Post that is likely to hack off any readers of the Intelligent Design persuasion. ...
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Slightly Off-Topic: A PSA From the Australian Metro

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This video, which is actually a public service announcement from the Australian Metro service (and referred to by Hot Air as the Unofficial ...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Eugenie Scott at UT Tonight

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Eugenie Scott, the director of NCSE will be at McClung Museum tonight giving a talk on evolution and climate science.  I have the flu so wil...
Saturday, November 10, 2012

An Alternate Explanation for the Disappearance of the Dinosaurs

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This is a recent Non Sequitur cartoon explaining how the dinosaurs might have gone extinct.