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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: 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 • 54 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: Evolution
I had intended to leave this subject behind, at least for a while, but Josh Rosenau has a lengthy post up that I think merits a reply. See also this post and the ensuing comments. On several occasions at this...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 2:52 AM • 103 Comments •
Category: Evolution
What with all the general business and the ample supply of recent blog fodder, I seem to have gotten away from my Blogging Dawkins project. That state of affairs ends now. In Chapter Two Dawkins laid out the case that...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:44 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Evolution
Richard Dawkins stopped by the NCSE the other day. Josh Rosenau writes: And no, blog drama did not spill over into the real world. It was a great visit, with Dawkins and Genie getting along swimmingly. Anyone surprised by this?...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 3:04 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Evolution
Dawkins begins his case for evolution in the same place as Darwin himself: by discussing the myriad successes of plant and animal breeders. Whereas Darwin was very taken with pigeons, however, Dawkins prefers dogs, cabbages and cattle. The chapter opens...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:56 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Evolution
The other day I sallied forth to the local Barnes and Noble to pick up my copy of Richard Dawkins's new book The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. As I walked into the store I noticed a...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:41 PM • 64 Comments •
Category: Evolution
The Wall Street Journal recently hosted an exchange of essays on the subject of evolution and God. The participants: Richard Dawkins and Karen Armstrong. Here's your first question: Which of them wrote this: Evolution has indeed dealt a blow to...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 3:18 PM • 34 Comments •
Category: Evolution
From Yahoo News: Fish have lost half their average body mass and smaller species are making up a larger proportion of European fish stocks as a result of global warming, a study published Monday has found. “It's huge,” said study...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:20 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Evolution
Thursday morning started bright and early, since the first talk was at eight. It goes against my grain to be out of bed at that hour, but sometimes in life you just have to make sacrifices. I was at the...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:29 PM • 41 Comments •
