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Commentary on the Endless Dispute Between Evolution and Creationism
Jason Rosenhouse received
his PhD in mathematics
from Dartmouth College in 2000.
He subsequently spent three years as a post-doc at
Kansas State University.
Observing the machinations of the Kansas Board of Education
led to his unhealthy obsession with issues related
to evolution and creationism.
Currently he is an Associate Professor of
Mathematics at James Madison University,
in Harrisonburg, VA.
May 31, 2006
Category: Philosophy
Thanks to alejandro for directing me to his own take on Dembski's theodicy, discussed in the previous post. You can find his thoughts here. I liked his summary of the problem of evil: This article discusses that old chestnut, the...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 3:03 PM • 20 Comments • 12 TrackBacks
Category: Philosophy
I have written before that I regard the problem of evil as essentially a decisive refutation of Christianity. It's not quite logically impossible to reconcile an omnipotent, omnibenevolent God with the sheer quantity of evil and suffering in the world,...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 1:57 PM • 56 Comments • 37 TrackBacks
May 25, 2006
Category: Legal Issues
A three judge panel for the eleventh circuit court of appeals has vacated the decision of the lower court in the Cobb County sticker case. At issue here was the decision by the Cobb County School Board to include the...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:30 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Philosophy
Over at Telic Thoughts, macht has posted this reply to some of my earlier posts on the nature of science. I believe he is still missing most of the important points. But in the interest of making this into something...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 12:49 AM • 13 Comments •
May 23, 2006
Category: Anti-Creationism
I'm a bit pressed for time today, so why not just have a look at this insightful op-ed by Jay Ingram in The Toronto Star. He begins: Scientists are absolutely correct to argue that intelligent design -- the claim that...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 3:13 PM • 38 Comments • 3 TrackBacks
May 22, 2006
Category: Anti-Creationism
After writing that last post, I decided to have a look at the comments to macht's essay. I found another delightful instance of macht being clueless. Commenter Daniel wrote: “if some modern scientist happened to introduce something supernatural into science...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 4:27 PM • 23 Comments •
Category: Anti-Creationism
My essay on the nature of science has provoked this limp response from macht, over at Telic Thoughts. My essay emphasized the fact that science has a specific goal in mind: To understand the workings of nature. Understanding is measured...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 4:23 PM • 3 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
May 21, 2006
Category: Ask a Science Blogger
Seed's ScienceBlogger Question of the week is the following: If you could shake the public and make them understand one scientific idea, what would it be? My knee-jerk response was pretty obvious: “Evolution!” Sadly, John Lynch got there first. Then...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 9:02 PM • 25 Comments • 14 TrackBacks
May 19, 2006
Category: Evolution
I have a new essay up at CSICOP's Creation Watch site. The subject: What is Science? Figured it was high time to polish off that little question once and for all. Enjoy!...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:03 PM • 7 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution in Pop Culture
Who was the guest on yesterday's episode of The Colbert Report? It was Ted Daeschler, a paleontologist at The Academy of Natural Science in Philadelphia. He was part of the team that discovered the fish-tetrapod transitional form Tiktaalik roseae. Not...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 4:32 PM • 10 Comments •
