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Human evolution, genetics, genomics and their interstices
Category: Evolution
Carl Zimmer points me an article about a former anthropologist who has some weird ideas about the origin of man: Since his resignation from the university in 1990, however, Horn has changed his tune. Once a staunch Darwinist and tenured...
Posted by Razib Khan at 5:22 PM • 20 Comments •
Category: Creationism
On a lark I decided to see how Catholics & Protestants broke down in regards to evolution by American region in the GSS. Specifically, I clustered the Census Divisions to create the categories of: Northeast = New England + Mid...
Posted by Razib Khan at 5:08 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Creationism
I was mentioning to a friend that Whoopi Goldberg is apparently a semi-moon landing denialist. At least Goldberg isn't a Creationist like fellow View co-host Sherri Shepard. In fact Goldberg took issue with Shepard's stance when it came up. Rather...
Posted by Razib Khan at 9:09 AM • 12 Comments •
Category: Creationism
So I'm reading/hearing about something flaring up in Texas again in regards to Creationism. I always get these strange "articles" in my RSS for the "evolution" query on Google Alerts where an uninformed columnist rambles on how the theory has...
Posted by Razib Khan at 11:56 AM • 13 Comments •
Category: Evolution
Pew has the numbers: The main surprise here are Mormons. I knew that they had become much more Creationist over the past 3 generations due to their identification with conservative Protestants, but I didn't know that it went this far....
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:52 PM • 38 Comments •
Category: Creationism
Acceptance of Evolution & belief in God, over at Secular Right. Here's my conclusion: ... In any case, I think the two observations I would make is that Roman Catholicism's acceptance of evolution shows, as those nations tend to be...
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:27 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Creationism
During a conversation with Nick Matzke he asserted that Creationists weren't less intelligent necessarily. I contended that they were less intelligent. I based on this on snooping through the GSS when I was posting about the association between lower educational...
Posted by Razib Khan at 6:24 AM • 18 Comments •
Category: Creationism
I was browsing RedState today and I noticed an advertisement for the National Geographic special on the Neandertal genome. At first I was surprised at the appearance of this on a right-wing website; after all, there is a bias toward...
Posted by Razib Khan at 8:30 PM • 15 Comments •
Category: Creationism
I have already posted on Creationism & Bobby Jindal. Here's more: As a parent, when my kids go to schools, when they go to public schools, I want them to be presented with the best thinking. I want them to...
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:17 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Creationism
Via The Corner, Turkish Islamic author given 3-year jail sentence: Controversial Turkish Islamic author Adnan Oktar was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday for creating an illegal organization for personal gain, state-run Anatolian news agency said. ... Oktar,...
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