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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.
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 •
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 •
Category: Evolution
As a coda to the previous post, have a look at this post from Jerry Coyne. Since some of his blog posts have been at the center of the recent dust-ups about accommodationism, he elected to provide a clear statement...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:58 PM • 31 Comments •
Category: Anti-Creationism
For my Virginia readers, I have just learned that Judge John Jones, of Dover trial fame, will be speaking at Bridgewater College on Thursday, September 17. Bridgewater College? That's about twenty minutes from Harrisonburg! Looks like I have plans tomorrow...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 4:39 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Anti-Creationism
If you're in the mood for some Darwin-related reading, have a look at these four offerings from the website of the NCSE. They are reviews of four recent books about Charles Darwin. I recommend especially the eloquent smackdown of The...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 2:17 PM • 13 Comments •
Category: Anti-Creationism
My friends, there are certian times in your life when you are simply forced by events to reevaluate everything you believe and hold dear. For me, now is such a time. I have argued at length that the aggressive tone...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:28 PM • 52 Comments •
Category: Anti-Creationism
Here's The Times of London planting a big wet kiss on Richard Dawkins in one of their lead editorials: Thomas Henry Huxley, the great contemporary populariser of Charles Darwin's ideas, declared it his aim to "smite all humbugs, however big;...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 2:14 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Anti-Creationism
I am currently working my way through the book The Evolution Controversy in America, written by historian George Webb and published in 1994. I got a kick out of the following quote. It will help to know that the Reverend...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 1:39 AM • 20 Comments •
Category: Anti-Creationism
Probably not, but it's going to get one. I have just signed a contract with Oxford University Press for a book based on my experiences at creationist conferences. It's not going to be an easy book to write, but it...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 12:25 AM • 37 Comments •
Category: Anti-Creationism
An amusing comment from last night's Countdown. Guest host David Shuster was siting in for Keith Olbermann: On this day in 1925, an anniversary of note if your name is Sam Brownback. High school biology teacher John T. Scopes was...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:34 PM • 2 Comments •
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