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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.
September 27, 2010
Category: Religion
People I respect keep telling me there is marvelous work being done in the area of theology. I have never encountered it, and not for lack of looking. Sometimes I wonder, though, whether perhaps I am just reading the wrong...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:27 PM • 75 Comments •
September 22, 2010
Category: Religion
Jerry Coyne has an important post up responding to this awful essay by Peter Doumit, posted at the BioLogos website. Doumit's essay has nuggets like this: Divine revelation comes in two forms: the Word of God (including both Sacred Scripture...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:06 PM • 72 Comments •
Category: Politics
If you are looking for some popcorn reading, have a look at this post from John Farrell, over at HuffPo. He takes John West of the Discovery Institute to task for parroting ye olde “Darwin was a big, fat racist!”...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 4:57 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Religion
Let's see to what my homeys have been up. Richard Dawkins, that little rabble rouser, is rightly vexed by the respectful treatment the Pope has been receiving during his trip to England. Addressing a crowd of roughly 15,000 people, Dawkins...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 4:28 PM • 4 Comments •
September 20, 2010
Category: Mathematics
Recent editions of Monday Math have seen us working pretty hard. So how about we lighten the mood a bit and think about fractions. Let us start with the obvious. Fractions have tops and bottoms. Got that? Numerators and denominators...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:44 PM • 42 Comments •
September 14, 2010
Category: Religion
This comes from Jerry Korsmeyer's book Evolution and Eden: Balancing Original Sin and Contemporary Science, published in 1998. Korsmeyer is both a physicist and a theologian. The tremendous amount of time it took for the simplest elements of matter to...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:46 PM • 49 Comments •
Category: Religion
Via Jerry Coyne I have just come across this op-ed, from the USA Today, by Chris Mooney. The title: “Spirituality Can Bridge Science-Religion Divide” My initial reaction: No it can't! Mooney's argument is a standard one: Across the Western world...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:04 PM • 37 Comments •
September 13, 2010
Category: Mathematics
Time for the big finale! We now have all the pieces in place to establish the divergence of the sum of the reciprocals of the primes. Recall that we have the Euler product expansion of the harmonic series: \[ \sum_{n=1}^\infty...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:41 PM • 6 Comments •
September 9, 2010
Category: Religion
Over at Huffington Post, Denis Alexander hawks his new book Biology and Ideology: From Descartes to Darwin, coedited by Ronald Numbers. It features an essay by Alister McGrath entitled, “Evolutionary Biology in Recent Atheist Apologetics.” McGrath, if you are unfamiliar...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:58 PM • 17 Comments •
September 8, 2010
Category: Mathematics
Here's an interesting article from The Washington Post. It's title? “For Math Students, Self-Esteem Might Not Equal High Scores.” It is difficult to get through a day in an American school without hearing maxims such as these: “To succeed, you...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:29 PM • 16 Comments •
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