Tuesday, August 22, 2017

More Bad News From Turkey

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It seems that, in Turkey, there will be no teaching of evolution any longer.  NPR reports: When children in Turkey head back to school thi...
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Wednesday, August 16, 2017

New DNA Analysis Allows for Greater Understanding of Modern Human Prehistory

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From Science Daily : A University of Utah-led team developed a new method for analyzing DNA sequence data to reconstruct the early history...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

New 13 Million-Year-Old Miocene Ape Discovery in Kenya

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National Geographic (and other outlets) is reporting on a new skull discovered in northern Kenya, near Lake Turkana that is 13 million years...
Monday, August 14, 2017

Full Page Ad in Chattanooga Times Free Press: Livesay Resign!

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A number of alumni and former faculty of Bryan College took out a full-page ad in the Chattanooga Times Free Press calling on President Step...
Wednesday, August 02, 2017

Ken Ham Takes Potshot at Bill Nye on Climate Change

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Ken Ham...Bill Nye...a plague on both of your houses.  While Bill Nye is out trying to save the world, and Ken Ham is out trying to save the...
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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Ken Ham Sells Ark Encounter Land Back To Himself

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And Hey Presto!  Just like that, it is back again.  The Lexington Herald Leader is reporting that the land on which the Ark Encounter sits, ...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

The Continuing Downward Spiral of Bryan College

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As if things could not get any worse for Bryan College, news has now surfaced that a much beloved professor, Phillip Lestmann, a tenured pr...
Monday, July 24, 2017

Busted! Ken Ham's Ark Encounter Loses $18,000,000 in Tax Incentives From State of Kentucky

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WUKY and other outlets are reporting that the Kentucky Board of Tourism has suspended $18 million worth of tax incentives for which the Ark ...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

Ark Encounter Update: Did Ken Ham Just Escape $700,000 in Taxes?

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The International Business Times is reporting that Ken Ham has sold his for-profit Ark Encounter to its parent organization, Crosswater Cany...
Sunday, July 16, 2017

Ark Encounter: Profit or Non-Profit?

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The Panda's Thumb is reporting yet another kerfuffle involving the Ark Encounter, the Town of Williamstown, and finances. Matt Young wri...
Saturday, July 15, 2017

Babylon Bee: Ken Ham Auctions Authentic Photo Of His Great-Great-Grandfather Riding Triceratops

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The Babylon Bee has a good deal of fun with Ken Ham.  It is a fertile source, after all.  Their newest gag: that Ken Ham is auctioning off a...
Thursday, July 13, 2017

USA Today Presents A Reasonably Balanced View of the Gallup Poll Results

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In what could easily have been an exercise in bashing organized religion, USA Today took a stab at the results of the new Gallup poll which ...
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Discovery of Chinese Burial Ground: The Nephilim Are Among Us!

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Science Alert (among other outlets) is reporting a news story about a discovery in Shandong Province of a 5,000 year-old graveyard of indivi...
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Saturday, July 08, 2017

Young Earth Creationism: Now Transitional Fossils Are Okay

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Recently, Dennis Venema and Scot McKnight produced an excellent book titled Adam and the Genome: Reading Genesis After Genetic Science .  I ...
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Friday, July 07, 2017

Genetic Data Indicates Another Migration of Archaic Homo sapiens Out of Africa

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Ars Technica is running a story based off of a Nature Communications article about a migration of archaic Homo sapiens out of Africa that ...
Thursday, July 06, 2017

Ken Ham Deflects Blame For Poor Attendance of Ark Encounter

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The rumors have been hard to ignore.  What began as an estimate of 2 million visitors to the Ark Encounter by Ken Ham have now sunk to 1.4 m...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Trouble in Turkey

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As Tayyip Erdogan tightens his control over secular Turkey, the most recent casualty is evolutionary science.  The BBC News reports : On W...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Noah and the Dinosaurs

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Sorry for the light posting.  I have been trying to beat into shape a BioLogos article on the new human remains from Jebel Irhoud. Remembe...
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Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Slightly Off-Topic: Mike Adams: Inherit the Windfall

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Mike Adams has a new column on the continuing travails of Bryan College and its embattled president Stephen Livesay.  Bryan, if you will rem...
Wednesday, June 07, 2017

Ark Encounter Not Helping Local Economy

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From Linda Blackford , of the Lexington Herald Leader: Ark co-founder Mike Zovath said the attraction will attract its 1 millionth visitor...