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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.
August 30, 2007
Category: Religion
Chris Mooney has a link to this analysis of recent polling data. The analysis was written by David Masci. The subject: How Americans feel about science and faith. Mooney thinks the data supports the Matt Nisbet line that people like...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 8:56 PM • 108 Comments •
August 29, 2007
Category: Politics
And while we're perusing the Hardball transcript, here's Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee commenting on the causes of cancer. Huckabee, recall, was one of three Republican candidates to raise his hand to affirm his rejection of evolution. Take it away...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:25 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Religion
God is Not Great author Christopher Hitchens and Catholic League president Bill Donohue showed up on Hardball yesterday to mull over the issues raised by the Time article. I'd write some commentary, but some things simply defy comment. I have...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:04 PM • 26 Comments •
Category: Religion
Time's cover story this week is about Mother Teresa. Specifically, it's about her newly released personal correspondence in which she repeatedly expresses grave doubts about the truth of Christianity, even to the point of questioning whether God exists. It's a...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:33 PM • 16 Comments •
Category: Politics
Last night's edition of Hardball with Chris Matthews provided more than its fair share of strange moments. There was an amusing exchange between Christopher Hitchens and Catholic League president Bill Donohue regarding the current Time magazine cover story about Mother...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 2:28 PM • 5 Comments •
August 27, 2007
Category: Anti-Creationism
Perhaps you saw this article from The New York Times last week. It describes some significant new findings in protein evolution: In work published last year, Dr. Thornton reported how his group reconstructed an ancestral protein of two hormone receptors...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 11:00 PM • 65 Comments •
Category: Politics
Have a look at this op-ed from today's Washington Post, by Susan Goodkin and David Gold : With reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act high on the agenda as Congress returns from its recess, lawmakers must confront the...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:59 PM • 11 Comments •
Category: Religion
Over at Effect Measure, Revere takes a few shots at Matt Nisbet: It's not just that the Dawkins/Hitchens “PR campaign provides emotional sustenance and talking points for many atheists,” although it does that too. It's that the various writings of...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 3:32 PM • 3 Comments •
August 25, 2007
Category: Miscellaneous
It's that time of year again! That most worthless of weekly news mags, U. S. News and World Report, has just published its annual list of America's Best Colleges. As usual, they tinkered with their ranking system again, for the...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:02 PM • 8 Comments •
August 24, 2007
Category: Politics
But when it comes to brain-dead venom-spewing, Kristol is an amateur compared to Town Hall columnist Lisa De Pasquale. How bad have things gotten for the right? Well, let's have a look. A standard criticism of the phony machismo that...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:46 PM • 19 Comments •
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