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.

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Is This Really a Good Idea?

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Resurrecting the Giants: Wooly Mammoth DNA Successfully Inserted into Elephant Genetic Code Apex Tribune is running a story about work out...
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Monday, March 30, 2015

Elizabeth Mitchell, David Menton and Andrew Snelling Take on the Ledi Jaw

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As noted, the promised report from Answers in Genesis about the Ledi jaw (LD 350-1) is out.  Let's see what they say.  This is an inter...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Salamander From Hell

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On the heels of the walking crododile from hell, we now have a car-sized salamander from a lake bed in Portugal.  The animal, named Metopos...
Monday, March 23, 2015

The Headline Says it All

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Republicans fire 2016 starting gun at Christian college that teaches world is 6,000 years old It didn't take the media long to latch ...
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Friday, March 20, 2015

Ken Ham and Asteroids

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Leave it to Ken Ham to take a science excursion into the “what if?” and ruin it. The Inquisitr is reporting on Ham's response to a new...
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Thursday, March 19, 2015

Crocodile From Hell, Part II

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And I thought this guy was bad.  Now a 9-foot tall “walking crocodile” has been found from late Triassic deposits, around 230 million years...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Todd Wood: Intro to Origins

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The Core Academy has just finished putting together its Intro to Origins series of classes.  The topics are varied, including a discussion ...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Another View From Canada: Saner Heads

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In an unsigned editorial in the National Post, the editors write: “ Judge politicians by their actions, not their religion. ” The editors po...

Ark Encounter Asks Judge for Injunction

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In a very short AP article, it is being reported that the Ark Encounter is asking the judge involved in the suit that it filed in February ...
Sunday, March 15, 2015

Some Thoughts on American Fundamentalism from Across the Border

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There is currently a kerfuffle going on in Canada, regarding the new Alberta Education Minister and his position on biological evolution.  J...
Saturday, March 14, 2015

Kent Hovind Guilty of Contempt of Court

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Peter J. Reilly at Forbes, who has kept up-to-date on the trials and tribulations of Kent Hovind, reports that a jury has found him guilty o...
Friday, March 13, 2015

Neandertals Hunted Eagles, Wore Talons as Jewelry

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Nature News is reporting that a find of bone adornments was unearthed at the Krapina Neandertal site over 100 years ago but not recognized a...

New BioLogos Post on LD 350-1

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My post on the new fossil find in the Afar Triangle is up over at BioLogos.  This is a very, very important find because it stretches our o...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Great Homeschool Convention 2015: Jay Wile

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Melanie and two of the kids have gone junketing off to the 2015 version of the Great Homeschool Convention, in Greenville, South Carolina.  ...
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Friday, March 06, 2015

Ars Technica Pulls The Mask Off the "Teach the Controversy" Bills

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I have written this many times in this blog: the “Teach the Controversy” legislation being promoted in different statehouses across the coun...

Hovindicators, Onward March!

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Peter Reilly has been having quite a bit of fun following the current travails of Kent Hovind, affectionately known as “Dr. Dino.” Hovind, ...

Megan McArdle Thinks the Question to Scott Walker About Evolution is Misguided

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She is right.  To a large extent, what a president thinks or does not think about evolution is largely irrelevant to the daily tasks of runn...
Thursday, March 05, 2015

New Jawbone Fills Gaps, Raises Questions

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A group working in the Afar Triangle has discovered a mandibular fragment with associated teeth that show strong affinities to early Homo . ...
Friday, February 20, 2015

Ken Ham, Andrew Snelling, Creationism and the Challenge of Modern Geology

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Recently, a story showed up in the science dailies about evidence supporting rapid canyon formation in Iceland.  First, the story that the B...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Andrew Snelling, Geology and Cooking

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Sorry, this one rambles a little bit. Jonathan Baker at Age of Rocks writes an interesting column that is a response to Andrew Snelling...
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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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