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.
January 28, 2008
Category: Chess
If you'll forgive another chess post, the annual grandmaster chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee in the Netherlands is now complete. It was the first major tournament of the year, and it had a pleasingly unexpected outcome. Young phenoms Levon...
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Category: Politics
Go read Paul Krugman's column. Money quote: First, those who don't want to nominate Hillary Clinton because they don't want to return to the nastiness of the 1990s -- a sizable group, at least in the punditocracy -- are deluding...
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January 27, 2008
Category: Politics
Journalism is dead, folks. Start with that. Can you point to a single mainstream media outlet, whether a cable news channel or network news broadcast or newspaper or newsmagazine, that you trust to give you the basic facts about anything?...
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January 20, 2008
Category: Anti-Creationism
ID folks make numerous assertions said to represent scientific challenges to conventional evolutionary theory. These claims are uniformly wrong, which is one of the reasons scientists generally ignore them. But ID folks also claim that adopting a design perspective could...
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Category: Chess
Via The Chess Ninja, I see that Gary Kasparov has commented on the death of Bobby Fischer. I have copied his remarks below the fold....
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January 18, 2008
Category: Chess
Former World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer has died of kidney failure at the age of 64. The New York Times has an informative article here. For chess fans Bobby Fischer was the classic example of the need to separate the...
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January 15, 2008
Category: Mathematics
We are all familiar with optical illusions. These are situations where your eyes misperceive the nature of some image or physical object. For some time now psychologists and cognitive scientists have been discussing the reality of cognitive illusions. These are...
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Category: Anti-Creationism
As reported in this article in Reason Magazine: My favorite response from any candidate about the evolution/creationism debate was from former Sen. Mike Gravel (Alaska). When LiveScience asked the senator if he thought creationism should be taught in public schools,...
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January 12, 2008
Category: Mathematics
I just got back from six days in San Diego, participating in the annual Joint Mathematics Meetings. Why “Joint”? Because they are jointly sponsored by the two major American mathematical organizations. I refer, of course, to the Mathematical Association of...
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