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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.
January 30, 2009
Category: Anti-Creationism
We close the week's blogging by savoring an amusing example of just how bad things have gotten for the creationists. For as long as there have been creationists there has been the argument from complex structures. You know the one...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:26 PM • 36 Comments •
January 28, 2009
Category: Evolution
If you saw my post the other day about Jerry Coyne's review of the recent books by Ken Miller and Karl Giberson, then you might also be interested to know that Miller and Giberson have now replied. Click here for...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:42 PM • 120 Comments •
January 26, 2009
Category: Miscellaneous
Writing in Slate Ron Rosenbaum has a very funny, but very mean, polemic against...Billy Joel. What the aging pop star did to deserve this I don't know, but for anyone who grew up in the eighties it's worth a look:...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:20 PM • 30 Comments •
Category: Evolution
Jerry Coyne returns to the pages of The New Republic with this review of Ken Miller's recent book Only a Theory and Karl Giberson's book Saving Darwin. I previously reviewed Giberson's book here and Miller's book here. Miller and Giberson,...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 4:58 PM • 19 Comments •
January 23, 2009
Category: Politics
If you have some time this weekend, be sure to read this magnificent article from Vanity Fair. It presents excerpts from intervies conducted withhundreds of Bush administration officials and other politically important individuals, going through the entire eight years of...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:47 PM • 8 Comments •
January 22, 2009
Category: Evolution
Recently, ScienceBlogs own Abbie Smith made some trenchant remarks about the problems with science journalism. The combination of sensationalism with writers who frequently do not understand the work about which they are writing leads to some serious difficulties for scientists...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:32 PM • 253 Comments •
January 21, 2009
Category: Religion
Writing in The New Criterion, the always excellent Martin Gardner reviews Bart Ehramnn's new book God's Problem: how the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question -- Why We Suffer. Since I am among those who think the problem...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 8:27 PM • 240 Comments •
January 16, 2009
Category: Anti-Creationism
And let us conclude the week's blogging with some wise words from the Financial Times: Yet at the beginning of the 21st century, evolution is under sustained attack from creationist theories inspired by fundamentalist religion -- sometimes dressed in scientific...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:57 PM • 26 Comments •
Over at the New Republic Issac Chotiner offers up the following worthy thought: As a respite from all the talk on cable television yesterday (and today) that the New York plane rescue was in fact a “miracle,” it is nice...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:24 PM • 15 Comments •
Category: Miscellaneous
By now I am sure you have heard that Ricardo Mantalban and Patrick McGoohan have died. Mantalban is being remembered primarily for playing Khan in Star Trek and Mr. Rourke in the godawful-but-strangely-watchable Fantasy Island. For me, though, his best...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 1:23 AM • 13 Comments •
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