Monday, May 28, 2018

Arizona: More Whack-a-Mole

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Now, Arizona educators are considering watering down the definition of evolution in the state curriculum guidelines.  AP has the story : T...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

Fred Clark on the Cruelty of Young Earth Creationism

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Ken Ham is fond of saying that the reason that many young people are falling away from the faith is because they have been indoctrinated int...
Thursday, May 17, 2018

World Religion News: Human Evolution Exhibit Censored to Avoid Offending Ultra-Orthodox Jews

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It seems that even Judaism has a wing that rejects evolution.  Gee, who knew.  World Religion News has the story : Authorities of Jerusale...
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

How Intelligent Was Homo naledi?

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Discover Magazine (and other outlets) are running a story which questions how important cranial size is to overall intelligence.  The focus...
Friday, May 11, 2018

Truth is Stranger than Fiction: Galapagos Creationism Center to be Built

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The Adventist News Network is reporting that a new creationism center will be built on the Galapagos Islands: A large incentive project f...
Sunday, May 06, 2018

What in the Hay-ull is Wrong with These People??

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Yankees pitcher German was just yanked in the top of the seventh while throwing a no-hitter.  I hate these managers!!!!  In 1972, Preston Go...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

New Laetoli Footprints Demonstrate Full Bipedality

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A story running in Newsweek and the Washington Post (and other outlets, presumably), details research into the newly discovered fossil foot...
Friday, April 20, 2018

The Slander of “Darwinism”

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Kenneth Miller has written yet another extraordinary essay , this one on the nature of the term “Darwinism” and how it is pejoratively used ...
Thursday, April 19, 2018

Kent Hovind is Baaaacccckkkkkk!

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Hemant Mehta writes for Patheos that Kent Hovind is back in the news .  You kind of have to read through the vitriol a bit: In 2009, the ...
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Ardipithecus May Not Have Been Entirely a Facultative Biped After All

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In a new article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , several researchers have concluded, using 3D morphometric analysis...
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Tuesday, April 10, 2018

New Homo sapiens Fossil Found in Arabia

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A new fossil finger has been unearthed as Arabia that purports to be 87 ky old.  UPI is on it . The fossil was found buried beneath the sa...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Babylon Bee: Ken Ham Arrested For Vandalizing Grand Canyon Signs To Read ‘JUST 4400 YEARS OLD’

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I love the Babylon Bee.  They will skewer anything.  This post announces that Ken Ham was caught vandalizing signs in the Grand Canyon : D...
Friday, March 23, 2018

Ken Ham: ‘If Christians don’t believe in a literal Genesis, they have no foundation for their doctrine’

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Ken Ham gave a lengthy interview in The Christian Chronicle, conducted by Bobby Ross, Jr., in which he outlined why he believes in a young ...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Modern Humans Interbred with Two Groups of Denisovans

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There is now more evidence that were were “ one big happy family .”  Here is a short recap: Beginning around 1.8 million years ago, a homi...
Saturday, March 10, 2018

Human Evolution, Walking and FoxP1

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The Smithsonian has an interesting article on hox genes and how a discovery may inform about how walking came about: What does a mouse ha...
Friday, March 09, 2018

Daniel Everett: Homo erectus Could Speak and Make Boats

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Bentley University Global Studies professor Daniel Everett argues that Homo erectus could speak and had the ability to make ocean-going vess...
Thursday, March 08, 2018

A Mistake Rectified

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I have been extraordinarily busy the last few weeks and had hoped to post about this at the time.  Ken Ham was invited to speak at the Unive...
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Thursday, February 15, 2018

Ted Davis Waxes Theological, Todd Wood Responds

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Ted Davis, like the rest of us, is tired of how the origins debate is playing out between mainstream and non-mainstream science.  He has gre...
Monday, February 12, 2018

New BioLogos Post on the Misliya Modern Human Fossil

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There is a new BioLogos post on the Israeli Misliya partial face and teeth fossil.  Comments welcome there and here.
Friday, February 02, 2018

Jesuit Review: Creationism Isn't About Science, it’s about theology (and it’s really bad theology).

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Eric Sundrup has an editorial in the Jesuit Review about what is wrong with young earth creationism.  He has some very good observations :...