Thursday, October 27, 2016

Lucy Fell From a Tree?

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New research from John Kappelman suggests that the australopithecine specimen known as Lucy, the famous find from the 1970s that put hominin...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Amanda Glaze: Teaching Evolution in the South

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Vox has an interview with Amanda Glaze, a professor at Georgia Southern University, about what it is like to teach evolution in the south. ...
Friday, October 21, 2016

Of Stone Tools and Human Cognition

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One of the things that is taught in human origins classes all over the world is that the earliest stone tools were likely made at the site o...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Joel Edmund Anderson: The Heresy of Ham

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In my convalescence, I finished Joel Edmund Anderson's The Heresy of Ham: What Every Evangelical Needs to Know About the Creation-Evolut...
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On the Other Side...

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Whew.  Made it.  Sort of...  There is still a long way to go in terms of healing and getting things back to normal, but the surgery seems to...
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Sunday, September 25, 2016

Going Dark For a Bit

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My surgery is 8:00 in the morning and I will be out of commission for at least a few weeks. I will post more when I can.
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Thursday, September 22, 2016

Scientifice American: "Creationism Invades Europe"

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Scientific American is sounding an alarm that creationism is gaining support in Europe. Stefaan Blancke and Peter C. Kjærgaard write: We...
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Monday, September 19, 2016

Answers in Genesis' Deceptive Video on Radiometric Dating

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Answers in Genesis now has a “Check this Out” feature where they tackle a scientific claim which argues for an old earth and try to debunk...
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Thursday, September 08, 2016

Creationism Not To Be Taught in Ohio Schools

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World Religion News is reporting that the kerfuffle going on regarding the use of the Adnan Oktar (nee Harun Yahya) video on creationism ha...

A Personal Note: Of Life and Prostates

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Funny thing about the prostate gland.  It is absolutely essential for procreation.  Put simply (and I know some people who did not know this...
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Friday, August 19, 2016

Barbara King Responds to the Critics of Her NPR Post

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Barbara King, in a follow-up post to her plea to teach evolution to promote science literacy on NPR , responds to critics that her suggestio...
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Thursday, August 18, 2016

Matthew Walther Writes About What He Found at the Ark Encounter

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Matthew Walther, writing for the Washington Free Beacon chronicles his visit to the Ark Encounter and asks some basic questions : The ques...
Thursday, August 11, 2016

The Evolution of the Eye

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Here is a nifty little video on the formation of the eye by evolutionary processes that was created by Essilor.  It is hand-drawn animation...
Tuesday, August 09, 2016

PJ Media Takes on NPR on Science and Completely Misses the Point

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Science is not a democratic exercise.  There is either scientific support for a theory or there is not.  If there are competing views about ...
Sunday, August 07, 2016

New Scientist: Public Schools Should Not Take Their Kids to the Ark Encounter

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A post in the New Scientist has come out squarely against the idea that public schools should take kids on field trips to the Ark Encounte...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Viruses have a strong role in Evolution

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A story making the rounds reports on a study that suggests that viruses may have had a very strong influence on human evolution.  The Econom...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

William Dembski Comes Face to Face With the Closed-Mindedness of Young Earth Creationism

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Disgraced Christian Comedian Mike Warnke once upon a time referred to someone as being so narrow-minded that he “could look through a keyhol...
Friday, July 22, 2016

Lauren Saville: The Importance of Teaching Human Evolution

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Lauren Saville has written a post for NCSE titled "The Importance of Teaching Evolution."  Inevitably, the post deals not just wi...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Ken Ham, Evolutionary Creationism and Reality, Part II

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As I mentioned a few days ago in a post on Ken Ham's attack on evolutionary creationists, the thrust of his argument is that Christians ...
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Monday, July 18, 2016

Ken Ham to Give Public School Students a Huge Discount for Ark Encounter

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When I saw the eye-popping ticket price for Ken Ham's Ark Encounter, it pretty much cemented my initial decision to not attend, even as ...