Wednesday, March 27, 2013

What Did Thomas Nagel Write?

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Thomas Nagel, a professor of philosophy, has written a book entitled Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

An Intelligent Design Murder Mystery

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The Chattanooga Times Free Press has profiled a writer of murder mysteries who has centred one around Intelligent Design.  The book, titled...

More Trouble for the Complete "Out-of-Africa" Model

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Science Daily is reporting on research done on migration patterns involving early anatomically modern humans.  They write: The team, led ...

Io9 Misses the Point

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George Dvorsky at io9 thinks that the new Pope believes in evolution, but then gives us absolutely no evidence to back that claim up. He wr...
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Monday, March 25, 2013

Science Teachers Express Frustration

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Science teachers are beginning to express frustration about having to get around legislation that requires them to add ID-tinged education t...
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Thursday, March 21, 2013

Another "Noah's Ark" Opens

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Reuters is reporting that a replica of Noah's Ark has opened at a church in San Antonio, Texas.  According to the press release: Appro...
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Saturday, March 16, 2013

Duane Gish Has Died

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I missed this when it happened last week.  One of the grand old men of young earth creationism, Duane Gish, has died at the age of 92.  Ther...
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Attention-Grabbing Ad

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Here is the advertisement that 23andMe runs. It certainly got my attention.
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Friday, March 15, 2013

Another Ersatz Science Bill Fails

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NCSE reports that the time limit on the reading of Oklahoma House Bill 1674 was allowed to lapse.  According to the story : Along with Sen...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Science and the Catholic Church

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Tanya Lewis of LiveScience has penned a short refresher on the history of the Catholic church's relationship with science.  She reminds...
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

News Looking Up For Accurate Science in Homeschooling?

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The Atlantic has an excellent article on changes that are happening in the homeschool market that suggest that many homeschoolers are getti...
Monday, March 11, 2013

Jonathan Merritt: Why conservative Christians should oppose teaching the Bible in public schools

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Jonathan Merritt of the Religion News Service suggests that it would be a very bad thing for public schools to teach the Bible.  In the wake...
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Sorry about the lack of posts.  My mother passed away this last week and I have been preoccupied with that. 
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Wednesday, March 06, 2013

New Scientist: Is Extinction Really Such a Bad Thing?

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A new exhibit at London's Natural History Museum asks just that question and concludes that, no, it is not.  Shaoni Bhattacharya at The ...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

The John Freshwater Case Continues...

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ABC News is carrying a story on the case of John Freshwater, the science teacher who was let go after complaints by students and parents tha...
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Friday, February 22, 2013

23 And Me

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For her birthday, the husband of one of my friends here at the library gave her a complete genetic profile from the company 23 And Me . Amon...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Karl Giberson: Praise For Pope Benedict

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Karl Giberson has written a piece that appears in HufPo about the friendship between Pope Benedict and the scientific community.  He writes...
Monday, February 18, 2013

Barbara Cargill Backpedals

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A bit back, I wrote an open letter to Barbara Cargill, who sits on the Texas State Board of Education, and asked her what she found objectio...
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Sunday, February 10, 2013

Barry Fagin: Darwin Day reminds us of intellectual integrity

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Barry Fagin reminds us of why evolutionary theory is such a good one and why it has withstood the test of time. He writes: Evolution is ...
Saturday, February 09, 2013

The Basics of Evolution

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Dennis Venema is launching a series of posts at BioLogos on the basics of evolutionary theory.  Given the quality of Dennis' work so fa...