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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.
November 18, 2009
Category: Miscellaneous
My calculus students had a test yesterday. Having now graded them I understand, like never before, the meaning of the word “futility.” Their logic is not like our Earth logic. My future elementary school teachers had their test today. About...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 4:36 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: Politics
Sarah Palin's new book does not contain an index. So Christopher Beam, writing at Slate made one for her! Not that you were planning to read the book anyway, but this will save you the trouble. If for some reason...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 4:20 PM • 10 Comments •
November 12, 2009
Category: Religion
Here's a delightful article from the Washington Post: The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the city doesn't change a proposed same-sex marriage...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 3:11 PM • 16 Comments •
November 11, 2009
Category: Anti-Creationism
Remember that trip to the Creation Museum during the big paleontology conference this summer? Linda Vaccariello has a lengthy, and pretty good, article about it in the current issue of Cincinnati Magazine. Here's a nugget I liked: Looking over the...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:19 PM • 45 Comments •
November 10, 2009
Category: Literature
I already made my trip out to Barnes and Noble today to pick up Stephen King's new novel Under the Dome. I have not been this excited about the release of a novel in quite some time. No doubt I...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:25 PM • 16 Comments •
Category: Anti-Creationism
John Lynch has an important essay in the current issue of the Newsletter of the History of Science Society. I'm sure we are all familiar with creationist abuses of science and philosophy (not to mention their abuses of common decency...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 4:39 PM • 11 Comments •
November 6, 2009
Category: Mathematics
Seriously! Go have a look. It seems my book The Monty Hall Problem: The Remarkable Story of Math's Most Contentious Brainteaser made the list! And to think I wasn't planning to do a blog post today. Browsing through the other...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:57 PM • 23 Comments •
November 5, 2009
Category: Religion
Update, 7:32 PM I have revised portions of the second vignette in response to the first comment below. Via Josh Rosenau I came across this post from Todd Wood. Wood is an unabashed young-Earth creationist. What makes him considerably more...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:28 PM • 66 Comments •
November 3, 2009
Category: Miscellaneous
For anyone who has access to a print edition of The New York Times, today's crossword was constructed by my cousin Barry Boone! I believe this is his fourth puzzle for the TImes. It has an election day theme, so...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:52 PM • 7 Comments •
November 2, 2009
Category: Evolution
Michael Ruse has a very bad op-ed in The Guardian. Jerry Coyne and P. Z. Myers have already laid into him (here and here respectively), but why should they have all the fun? Ruse writes: If you mean someone who...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 8:40 PM • 55 Comments •
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