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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.
March 31, 2008
Category: Science
Nicholas Kristof has a good column in today's New York Times. Here's a taste: From Singapore to Japan, politicians pretend to be smarter and better- educated than they actually are, because intellect is an asset at the polls. In the...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:14 PM • 80 Comments •
March 28, 2008
Category: Evolution
Christianity Today has now published a review of Michael Behe's book The Edge of Evolution. You might dimly recall this book, since it was briefly big news among the ID folks upon its publication last year. It disappeared pretty quickly...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:12 PM • 26 Comments •
Category: Science
The big Monty Hall book is rapidly coming together. I may even have the first draft done in the next few weeks. It's certainly been a lot more work than I expected when I began. Originally I envisioned a straight...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 4:58 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Science
If you are not already familiar with Oxford's series of Very Short Introductions, I recommend having a look. I've read about two dozen of them to this point and have found them to be consistently excellent. I've just finished reading...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 4:07 PM • 9 Comments •
March 25, 2008
Category: Politics
The Olympics are coming, and with them a new opportunity for the holier than thou amongst us to urge boycotts in the service of political agendas. Anne Applebaum of Slate gets the party started with this essay. She doesn't actually...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:14 PM • 24 Comments •
Category: Evolution in Pop Culture
Have you been following this? P. Z. Myers got recognized at a screening of Expelled and was thrown out. Richard Dawkins, who was with Myers, did not get recognized and was allowed in. Hilarious! I think most people would agree...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:32 PM • 20 Comments •
March 23, 2008
Category: Anti-Creationism
I suspect that everyone reading this has heard the story of what happened when P.Z. Myers and Richard Dawkins tried to attend a screening of Expelled in Minneapolis last week. Short version: P.Z. got recognized and was not allowed in....
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:47 PM • 27 Comments •
March 14, 2008
Category: Religion
Chris over at Mixing Memory argues, both in this post and in the subsequent comments, that he is. I think that claim is deeply silly and trivializes the term fundamentalist. I've been mixing it up with Chris and some of...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:56 PM • 198 Comments •
March 12, 2008
Category: Religion
The New York Times is reporting that Michael Heller, a Roman Catholic Priest and cosmologist from Poland, has won the 2008 Templeton Prize. The Christian Science Monitor offers some further details here. In case you are unfamiliar with it, the...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 9:24 PM • 26 Comments •
Category: Religion
This paper (PDF format) by British philosopher Simon Blackburn is getting some attention in the blogosphere. Let's have a look. Blackburn addresses the question of what it means to respect religion, from the perspective of an atheist. The essay is...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 4:46 PM • 38 Comments •
