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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 28, 2007
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...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 10:34 PM • 76 Comments •
May 24, 2007
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...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 8:24 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Politics
From last night's Hardball:...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:59 PM • 9 Comments •
May 23, 2007
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...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 10:27 PM • 22 Comments •
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...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 9:45 PM • 150 Comments •
May 22, 2007
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...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:12 PM • 12 Comments •
May 21, 2007
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...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 8:14 PM • 31 Comments •
May 18, 2007
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,...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 9:33 PM • 14 Comments •
May 17, 2007
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...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 10:41 PM • 5 Comments •
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...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 10:22 PM • 42 Comments •
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