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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 28, 2007
Category: Mathematics
I have in front of me an anthology of bridge (as in the card game) essays entitled For Experts Only, edited by Pamela and Matthew Granovetter. Essay number six was written by Phil Martin, and is entitled “The Monty Hall...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:16 PM • 20 Comments •
November 26, 2007
Category: Miscellaneous
I am pleased to report that Jim's comment in the big Creation Museum post is the 10,000th comment left at this blog since the jump to ScienceBlogs. As always, many thanks to all the folks who have stopped by to...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:14 PM • 7 Comments •
November 25, 2007
Category: Anti-Creationism
Meanwhile, the Cincinnati newspaper The Enquirer brings us this delightful story about what a smashing success the Creation Museum has been: Inside, visitors will walk through the Garden of Eden, see dinosaur bones, and watch the solar system unfold as...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 11:54 PM • 38 Comments •
Category: Anti-Creationism
Every so often a mainstream news outlet rediscovers that young-Earth creationists still exist. This leads to bemused, but respectful articles. The most recent example is this article from The New York Times Magazine. It was written by Hanna Rosin. It's...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 11:11 PM • 6 Comments •
November 21, 2007
Category: Miscellaneous
Impressive company I'm keeping! Two of my SciBlings have recently received some deeply cool honors. Over at Stranger Fruit, John Lynch has received the Carnegie/CASE professor of the year award for the state of Arizona. Very nice! Meanwhile, Jonah Lehrer...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 4:37 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Politics
From Tuesday's show:: OLBERMANN: Yes, I understand that. You know, one of the other you's in there is Karl Rove that story about him possibly being in charge of the presidential library, the creation museum of presidential libraries then. What...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 4:17 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Evolution
The wonderfully named online magazine Jewcy, has been hosting a discussion about evolution and ID. Three entries so far: Neal Pollack gets the ball rolling by suggesting that he wants his children to grow up “utterly intolerant” of creationism. My...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 3:57 PM • 5 Comments •
November 15, 2007
Category: Mathematics
In the Monty Hall problem, you are confronted with three identical doors, one of which conceals a car while the other two conceal goats. You choose a door at random, number one say, but do not open it. Monty now...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:29 PM • 55 Comments •
Category: Evolution
Over at The Christian Century, biologist Joan Roughgarden serves up this review of Michael Behe's The Edge of Evolution. The good news is that Roughgarden is unambigously pro-evolution and anti-ID. She writes:...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 4:59 PM • 18 Comments •
November 13, 2007
Category: Literature
The New York Times is reporting that author Ira Levin has died of apparently natural causes at the age of 78: Ira Levin, a mild-mannered playwright and novelist who liked nothing better than to give people the creeps -- and...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 11:23 PM • 4 Comments •
