Sunday, June 28, 2015

Terrible News

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Chris Squire, the bass player for Yes, has passed away.  Rolling Stone has the story : Chris Squire, the co-founder and longtime bassist o...
Monday, June 22, 2015

Nancy Pearcey: Why Evolutionary Theory Cannot Survive Itself

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Nancy Pearcey has a new book out titled Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes . There is...
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Thursday, June 18, 2015

Is Bio-Complexity Dead?

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Is the Intelligent Design journal Bio-Complexity dead?  A visit to the web site indicates that no new articles have been published in 2015,...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Dinosaurs: Ken Ham Responds

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Ken Ham has responded to the news reports that he and David Menton plan to demonstrate the humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Australian News.com: Creationist preacher Ken Ham to ‘prove’ dinosaurs roamed with Adam and Eve

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Yeah, good luck with that one.  The Australian News service is reporting on Ken Ham's efforts to prove that dinosaurs and humans walked...
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Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Christianity Today: In Louisiana, students read the Book of Genesis in their science classes

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Christianity Today has a very matter-of-fact account of young earth creationism being taught in Louisiana.  Marvie Basilan writes : When a...
Friday, June 05, 2015

New BioLogos Post on Hominin Taxonomic Variability in the Early to Middle Pliocene

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I have a new post on hominin taxonomic variability in the early to middle Pliocene in light of the new Australopithecus deriyemeda find fr...
Sunday, May 31, 2015

BioLogos Blurb about Australopithecus deyiremeda

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My blurb about the new australopithecine is included in the Saturday Science Links at the BioLogos site.  There will be a longer piece next...
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Friday, May 29, 2015

What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs?

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The top result for the above search leads to a plug for a young-earth creationist book by Ken Ham which argues that humans dinosaurs coexist...
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UPDATE: Dinosaurs Lived With Humans?

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I have been reflecting on the blogosphere's reaction to the Google page that results in the search "What happened to the dinosaurs?...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

New Hominin Species Coeval with Au. afarensis

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A new hominin has been announced by Haile-Selassie and colleagues.  Here is the abstract from the Nature paper 1 : Middle Pliocene hominin...
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Google: Dinosaurs Lived With Humans?

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Google is in hot water for the reliability of its search results this morning.  This story will probably have a very short shelf life.  It t...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Peter J.Reilly: Kent Hovind To Be Set Free in August?

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It looks like Kent Hovind may be a free man.  Peter J. Reilly writes : It is pretty hard to surprise me, but Judge Margaret Casey’s Rodger...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

Earliest Stone Tools?

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Artifacts have been found near Lake Turkana that are reported to be the earliest stone tools yet produced.  Live Science has this : Until ...
Monday, May 18, 2015

Evolution and the Environment: A Graph by Josh Rosenau

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Josh Rosenau, at NCSE has constructed an interesting, if somewhat reductionist graph plotting acceptance of evolution and support for enviro...
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Saturday, May 09, 2015

A Closer Look at Accelerated Christian Education

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England is currently grappling with a controversy surrounding its free schools: some of them are teaching young earth creationism.  Javier E...
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Strengths and Weaknesses Bill: Alabama.com Editorializes

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Shelly Haskins of Alabama.com, an online conglomeration of several large newspapers (like Kentucky.com) has written an editorial about the ...
Friday, May 08, 2015

Update: Alabama "Strengths and Weaknesses" Bill: The Mask Comes Off

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The Anniston Star has a story that makes clearer the motives of Mack Butler, the Alabama Republican representative who has introduced the ...
Thursday, May 07, 2015

Alabama Introduces "Strengths and Weaknesses" Bill

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NCSE is reporting that a bill that would allow teachers to investigate “strengths and weaknesses” of contentious scientific theories has be...
Wednesday, May 06, 2015

Peter J. Reilly: The Trials of Kent Hovind: An American Tragedy

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Peter J. Reilly, who has written previously in Forbes on the saga of Kent Hovind, writes that he is, yet again , facing trial: Kent Hovind...