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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.
November 30, 2006
Category: Politics
Here's Bill O'Reilly expressing the latest bit of wisdom from the American Right: The problem in Iraq is not American. The problem is the Iraqis themselves. They're not fighting for their freedom in a way that puts the bad keys...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:46 PM • 12 Comments •
November 29, 2006
Category: Chess
Vladimir Kramnik will receive a lengthy section in any book devoted to history's greatest chess players. He's been a top grandmaster for close to twnety years. He defeated the seemingly invincible Gary Kasparov in a straight-up match. He has successfully...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 8:50 PM • 11 Comments •
Category: Anti-Creationism
That last post notwithstanding, I do think Larry Moran deserves criticism for one thing. He has been very unfair to Ken Milller. For example, in this post Moran writes: The Neville Chamberlain Atheists object when Behe talks about intelligent design...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:24 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: Religion
Okay, I'm back. Did I miss anything? Other than the giant kerfuffle between Larry Moran and P.Z. Myers on the one hand and Ed Brayton and Pat Hayes et al, on the other, that is. Things started with this post,...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:22 PM • 25 Comments •
November 15, 2006
Category: Administrative
I will be travelling for the next ten days or so. First up is the big Math Symposium at Western Kentucky University, this Friday. I will be delivering two scintallating, edge-of-your seats barn-burners, both aimed at undergraduates. One will be...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 9:21 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Religion
John Wilkins has offered this reply to my criticism of his earlier essay on the subject of agnosticism. Well worth reading, even though I sitll think he's wrong. He seems to think that in order to be justified in asserting...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 9:11 PM • 35 Comments •
November 13, 2006
Category: Religion
For the final installment of my Dawkins series, let's have a look at what my SciBling, John Wilkins has to say. In this post, Wilkins takes issue with Dawkins' discussion of agnosticism. Dawkins believes that agnosticism is unjustified fence-sitting. Wilkins...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 9:15 PM • 42 Comments •
November 10, 2006
Category: Miscellaneous
I'm not in the mood for a long blog entry today, so allow me simply to echo Orac's thoughts on the debut of the trailer for Spider-Man 3. It does, indeed, appear that it will rock. The feature villain this...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:31 PM • 7 Comments •
November 9, 2006
Category: Evolution
Philosopher Thomas Nagel reviewed Dawkins' book for The New Republic. Sadly, the review does not seem to be freely available online. Nagel begins with the standard talking points about Dawkins working outside his field of expertise and about how contemptuous...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 1:53 PM • 30 Comments •
November 8, 2006
Category: Politics
One of the main themes coming from the punditocracy in the wake of yesterday's election is that the Democrats are making a mistake if they think anyone likes them. This was strictly an anti-Bish result, apparently. If Demcrats start following...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 10:06 PM • 8 Comments •
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