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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.
February 24, 2010
Category: Evolution
Browsing through Richard Dawkins' The Greatest Show on Earth the other day I came across the following sentence: “The slow drifting apart of South America and Africa is now an established fact in the ordinary language sense of `fact', and...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:43 PM • 25 Comments •
February 18, 2010
Category: Religion
Via Jerry Coyne I came across this essay regarding the interpretation of Genesis. (Click here for Part One of the essay.) The article is by Kenton Sparks, a professor of Biblical Studies at Eastern University. His argument will be entirely...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:56 PM • 239 Comments •
February 9, 2010
Category: Anti-Creationism
Writing in the religious journal First Things University of Delaware physics professor Stephen Barr lays into the ID Movement. Here's the first paragraph: It is time to take stock: What has the intelligent design movement achieved? As science, nothing. The...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:03 PM • 110 Comments •
February 8, 2010
Category: Religion
I am currently reading the book Believers: A Journey into Evangelical America by Jeffery Sheler, published in 2006. There is a chapter about Wheaton College in Illinois, which is generally considered one of the best, if not the best, evangelical...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 12:21 AM • 59 Comments •
February 4, 2010
Category: Religion
In a couple of recent posts I have mentioned the book Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths About Science and Religion edited by Ronald Numbers. Since I have now finished reading it, I figure it is time for a...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 8:15 PM • 29 Comments •
February 1, 2010
Category: Evolution
Blogging will continue to be sporadic for a while, sorry about that. But having dragged myself down to Washington D.C. last weekend to see the new movie Creation, I figured I should at least get a blog post out of...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:45 PM • 64 Comments •
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