August 30, 2008
Category: Anti-Creationism
Time to wrap this up. So here are a few more interesting moments from the conference. The one genuinely interesting talk I attended had nothing to do with science at all. It was entitled “A Critique of the Precreation Chaos...
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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:59 PM • 76 Comments •
August 29, 2008
Category: Politics
By now I'm sure you have heard that John McCain has chosen Alaska governor Sarah “Teach the Controversy” Palin to be his running mate. I think The New Republic has the most sensible take, by Peter Scoblic:...
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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:13 PM • 17 Comments •
Category: Anti-Creationism
This article, from Mother Jones, has some smirk-worthy quotable bits. It's subject is the recent convention of the Fellowship of Christian Magicians:...
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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:48 PM • 5 Comments •
August 27, 2008
Category: Mathematics
The big Monty Hall book is working its way through production. Just received the proposed catalog copy on my destined for a Pulitzer masterpiece. Seems my book is, among other things, “light-hearted yet ultimately serious.” Why yes, come to think...
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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 3:18 PM • 58 Comments •
August 26, 2008
Category: Anti-Creationism
Here are a few more vignettes from the big conference. A fellow named Mark Matthews gave a presentation arguing that the Earth was located at or near the center of the universe. Most of the talk was given over to...
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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:28 PM • 74 Comments •
August 24, 2008
Category: Anti-Creationism
An interesting exchange took place during the Q and A of a talk entitled “Georgia Public School Board Members' Beliefs Concerning the Inclusion of Creationism in the Science Curriculum.” The speaker was Kathie Morgan of LIberty University. The talk itself...
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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:11 PM • 78 Comments •
August 21, 2008
Category: Mathematics
As the Beijing Olympics comes to a close, let us take a moment to congratulate the United States Team for their third place finish in the recently completed International Mathematical Olympiad, held in Madrid. The U.S. Team included Alex Zhai,...
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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 4:51 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: Anti-Creationism
Only time for quick blogging today, so go have a look at Peter Buckland's interesting post in response to my reports of the big creationism confab. Here's a taste: That stereotype exists, but it's not nearly complete as I have...
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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 4:23 PM • 2 Comments •
August 20, 2008
Category: Anti-Creationism
Some of the comments to my posts on the creationism conference reminded me of a scene from the movie Heat, released in 1995. Al Pacino played Vincent Hannah, a detective for the LAPD investigating a crew of professional bank robbers....
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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:59 PM • 32 Comments •
Category: Mathematics
My account of the big creationism conference will resume shortly, but I really must take time out to discuss this article by Brian Hayes of American Scientist. He is discussing the Monty Hall problem, you see....
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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:27 PM • 40 Comments •
August 18, 2008
Category: Anti-Creationism
Here's a picture to warm your heart: It comes from the closing presentation of the conference, entitled “The Creation Model: It's Past, Present and Necessary Future,” by Andrew Snelling. Here's another one:...
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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:10 PM • 78 Comments •
August 17, 2008
Category: Anti-Creationism
Usually I write these accounts in strict chronological order. I will break from that tradition this time since one of my most interesting experiences at the conference came right near the end. I had made a pest of myself...
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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 8:12 PM • 95 Comments •
August 13, 2008
Category: Evolution
My account of the big creationism conference will go up soon, but in the meantime you can tide yourself over with this op-ed from yesterday's New York Times. Olivia Judson explains a few of the reasons it is important to...
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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 3:49 PM • 39 Comments •
August 1, 2008
Category: Anti-Creationism
EvolutionBlog will be going dark for the next two weeks or so. I will be leaving my cozy digs in Harrisonburg to enjoy some serious wandering. First is a drive up to Pittsburgh for the International Conference of Creationism. How...
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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:53 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Miscellaneous
The all-consuming, all-devouring, ScienceBlogs collective has assimilated another victim. Go say hi to Matt Springer, who blogs about physics over at Built on Facts. Matt is a graduate student in physics at Texas A & M university. He writes: New...
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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:41 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Evolution
A few posts back I engaged a discussion about Richard Dawkins' metaphor of “Cimbing Mount Improbable” for the proces by which evolution by natural selection crafts complex structures from simpler precursors. Since I did not have his book in front...
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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:27 PM • 16 Comments •