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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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:...
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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...
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Category: Religion
George Carlin once asked, “If you're going to have a rain dance, wouldn't you have to have rain dance practice? And what I'm wondering is, does it rain during practice? Because if it doesn't, how do you know if you...
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Category: Politics
Robert Redford's new movie Lions for Lambs is struggling at the box office. It's also been getting largely negative reviews. But since I saw Bill O'Reilly and other right-wing outlets bashing it for its supposed anti-American bias, I felt honor-bound...
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November 7, 2007
Category: Mathematics
You might have noticed that blogging has been a bit erratic lately, and I have fallen off my usual pace of updating every weekday. There's a reason for that! Regular readers of this blog are aware that I have a...
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November 6, 2007
Category: Politics
On the subject of national politics, I come from the blind loyalty wing of the Democratic Party. When I look at the sort of things Democrats do when they have power compared to the sorts of things Republicans do, it...
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Category: Religion
Writing in The New York TImes Stanley Fish discusses two new books on the problem of evil. Since Fish hails from the pompous, pseduo-intellectual school of writing, in which it is considered extremely low-brow to actually make a point with...
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November 2, 2007
Category: Miscellaneous
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