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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.
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Evolution in Pop Culture:
Have you been following this? P. Z. Myers got recognized at a screening of Expelled and was thrown out. Richard Dawkins, who was with Myers, did not get recognized and was allowed in. Hilarious! I think most people would agree...
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Posted on March 25, 2008 6:32 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Matthew and Land look like Nobel Prize winners compared to Bill O'Reilly. He had Kirk Cameron on to discuss the vexing questtion of whether God exists. The video is available here. The interview opened with O'Reilly boasting of having defeated...
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Posted on May 11, 2007 5:34 PM • 80 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
On yesterday's edition of the MSNBC chat show Hardball, host Chris Matthews had the following surreal discussion with Richard Land, President of the Southern Baptist Convention:...
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Posted on May 11, 2007 4:36 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
That's the title of this article from the August 2006 issue of GeoTimes. The article is by Kathryn Hansen. The article details some of the difficulties faced by national parks and museums in communicating science to the public. It begins...
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Posted on August 25, 2006 1:11 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Anyone familiar with D. James Kennedy, leader of Coral Ridge Ministries, knows that he is one of the vilest ignorance peddlers in the business. When I lived in Kansas I listened frequently to his sermons on the local Christian radio...
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Posted on August 23, 2006 5:40 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
During those rare moments when I am not doing mathematics or blogging, I am usually reading. I read a lot of nonfiction, mostly books related in some way to science or mathematics. I also read a lot of fiction, and...
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Posted on July 26, 2006 5:00 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
P. Z. Myers says all the right things on the subject of replying to Ann Coulter. She's loathsome, dishonest and ignorant. But we can't simply pretend she doesn't exist. I haven't managed to get a copy of her book yet,...
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Posted on June 14, 2006 6:47 PM • 7 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
Who was the guest on yesterday's episode of The Colbert Report? It was Ted Daeschler, a paleontologist at The Academy of Natural Science in Philadelphia. He was part of the team that discovered the fish-tetrapod transitional form Tiktaalik roseae. Not...
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Posted on May 19, 2006 4:32 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I used to be a big fan of The Simpsons, but like a lot of people I started losing interest a few years ago. After more than a decade on the air the show seemed to have lost its spark....
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Posted on May 14, 2006 9:43 PM • 7 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
