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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.
March 30, 2007
Category: Anti-Creationism
Read: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four. I walked back to the convention center with the sixteen year old. The rest of the posse went a different direction. He seemed keen to persuade me of the absurdity of...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 9:32 PM • 36 Comments •
March 29, 2007
Category: Anti-Creationism
Read: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three. So I'm standing on line at Subway, contemplating the very long wait between me and my turkey on wheat, when I happen to overhear part of the conversation going on among the...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 9:18 PM • 92 Comments •
March 28, 2007
Category: Anti-Creationism
Read Part One and Part Two. Stephen Meyer was next up. Strobel and Richards played their parts well, but, let's face it, the conference thus far had mostly been amateur hour. Strobel stepped in it every time he mentioned something...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:38 PM • 27 Comments •
March 27, 2007
Category: Anti-Creationism
Read Part One of this series here. At this point Strobel and Meyer left the stage. The room grew dark, and a video came on the large screen to my left. It was an excerpt from the The Privileged Planet,...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 8:28 PM • 29 Comments •
March 26, 2007
Category: Anti-Creationism
The ID folks put on one of their dog and pony shows in Knoxville, TN this weekend. My curiosity piqued, I decided to check it out. So I left big bowls of food and water for the cats, piled into...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:37 PM • 28 Comments •
March 23, 2007
Category: Mathematics
In the mood for a good brain workout? Well search no farther! The fourth installment of the Carnival of Mathematics has arrived! Just look beneath the fold for some first rate math blogging:...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:47 AM • 16 Comments •
March 22, 2007
Category: Science
Speaking of cranks, all of the recent fuss over Al Gore's testimony to Congress on the subject of global warming has seen the revival of statistician Bjorn Lomborg. You might remember him as the author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, the...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:03 PM • 20 Comments •
Category: Anti-Creationism
Over at Red State Rabble, Pat Hayes has some further thoughts on the Darwin quote I discussed yesterday. Turns out Dembski's even more vile than I thought. After reproducing the quote in question, Hayes writes:...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 4:51 PM • 3 Comments •
March 21, 2007
Category: Anti-Creationism
While I was slumming over at Dembski's blog I cam across a link to this article, by right-wing superhack David Horowitz. Apparently Dembski's crew thought this little essay was helpful to the cause. Horowitz is discussing the horrors perpetrated by...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:38 PM • 17 Comments •
Category: Anti-Creationism
In yesterday's post I remarked that people seem to lose their minds upon deciding to become anti-evolution advocates. There is no better case in point than William Dembski. Ten years ago he was the star of the ID movement. A...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:16 PM • 34 Comments •
