Now on ScienceBlogs: The Galaxy's Biggest Valentine

ScienceBlogs Book Club: Inside the Outbreaks

EvolutionBlog

Commentary on the Endless Dispute Between Evolution and Creationism

Profile

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.


Search

Recent Posts

Recent Comments

Archives

Sites I Like

Science Periodicals

Other Links




Log In

May 28, 2007

The Kasich/Ham/Krauss Instatranscript

Category: Anti-Creationism

Tonight's edition of The O'Reilly Factor featured a discussion of the brand new creation museum outside Cincinnati. Guest host John Kasich was sitting in for Bill O'Reilly. Representing darkness and ignorance was creationist impresario Ken Ham, president of Answers in...

Read on »

May 24, 2007

Shabalov Wins U.S. Chess Championship

Category: Chess

Alexander Shabalov took clear first place in the just completed U.S. Championship. He scored seven points out of nine (six wins, two draws, one loss) in a field of 36 players. For a while Shabalov seemed on course to match...

Read on »

I'm Warming up to Chris Matthews

Category: Politics

From last night's Hardball:...

Read on »

May 23, 2007

Nature on Gonzalez

Category: Science

And speaking of bad science journalism, here's Nature's take on the Gonzalez situation: He's a young astronomer with dozens of articles in top journals; he has made an important discovery in the field of extrasolar planets; and he is a...

Read on »

The Times on the Creation Museum

Category: Anti-Creationism

The New York Times gives us sneak peek at the big Creation Museum opening in Kentucky this weekend: The entrance gates here are topped with metallic Stegosauruses. The grounds include a giant tyrannosaur standing amid the trees, and a stone-lined...

Read on »

May 22, 2007

Gingrich on Radical Secularism

Category: Religion

I only have time for quick blogging today, but we ought to tak a quick look this account, from The Washington Post, about Newt Gingrich's speech to the graduates at Liberty University: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich decried a “growing...

Read on »

May 21, 2007

Easterbrook Sort of Defends Religion

Category: Religion

Over at BeliefNet, Gregg Easterbrook writes the following: Israelis and Palestinians are killing each other by the hundreds in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. Hindus and Muslims are slaughtering each other in India, herding neighbors into house or trains...

Read on »

May 18, 2007

Blogging Les Miserables

Category: Literature

And now for something completely different. As a high school freshman I was assigned to read a heavily abridged version of Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables. I loved it immediately. Later I resolved to procure a copy of the full,...

Read on »

May 17, 2007

More Nuggets From Town Hall

Category: Miscellaneous

Two other items caught my eye while I was slumming over at Town Hall. First, here's William Rusher warning us all about the pernicious influence of junk science: As regular readers know, I seldom review books in these columns, preferring...

Read on »

Giles on Atheists

Category: Religion

The next time you see someone criticize Richard Dawkins for not giving adequate treatment to the modal logic version of the ontological argument, remind him that this column, from Town Hall columnist Doug Giles, is far more representative of the...

Read on »

ScienceBlogs

Search ScienceBlogs:

Go to:

Advertisement
Follow ScienceBlogs on Twitter

© 2006-2011 ScienceBlogs LLC. ScienceBlogs is a registered trademark of ScienceBlogs LLC. All rights reserved.