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Fossil Friday!
Hey, Fossil Friday Friends! Welcome to 2015! Well, I have some good news and some bad news for all your fossil addicts out there. First the bad news: Fossil Friday is going to come to a close. After a year and half of fossil-friendly blogging, I’ve run low on my fossils—…
The Appellant’s Brief in Scopes, Part 1
As I realized in responding to a comment from John Harshman, my discussion of the appeal in the Scopes case (“Flubbing the Appeal in Scopes” part 1 and part 2) neglected to describe the legal arguments of Scopes’s brief. Harshman asked, “Wasn’t it foolish of the appellants to present any…
Where Do Creationists Come From?
Snips and snails? Sugar and spice? What drives some people to creationism, and others to accept evolution? Jonathan Hill’s survey of American attitudes on evolution and creationism (on behalf of the pro-evolution evangelical group Biologos) offers a lot of insight for anyone who has pondered that…
Well Said! Lessons from a Children’s Book
My older daughter’s birthday is right before Christmas, and my younger daughter’s birthday just after. Last year, there was such a glut of gifts that we never even got around to getting some out of their boxes (which was actually quite handy since I was able to re-gift some back to the…
Answer Monday!
This past week on Fossil Friday, I gave you a present from our Fossil Friend, Dan Coleman. As you recall, Dan had this to say about the Fossil... "It is from the early Mississippian Buford limestone found in south-central Indiana. It was collected in a creek bed where tons of specimens…
Fossil Friday!
This week on Fossil Friday, I bring you a gift(!) from our Fossil Friend, Dan Coleman! According to Dan: “It is from the early Mississippian Buford limestone found in south-central Indiana. It was collected in a creek bed where tons of specimens wash out of the rock layers. This was/is in…
A Pseudo-Darwin Quotation, Part 2
I’ve been investigating a pseudo-Darwin quotation, “Not one change of species into another is on record … we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.” As I explained in part 1, and as the Talk.Origins Archive Quote Mine Project already disclosed, the second half is from The Life…
An Unexpected Journey Into Science and Opinion
Last Tuesday afternoon, NCSE’s intrepid (but at the time, flu-ridden) communications director forwarded me an urgent request for assistance. Slate science editor Laura Helmuth was moderating a panel at the annual American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, and one of her panelists had…
A Pseudo-Darwin Quotation, Part 1
Over at the Talk.Origins Archive Quote Mine Project, there’s a brief discussion of a quotation supposedly from Darwin: “Not one change of species into another is on record … we cannot prove that a single species has been changed,” credited to My Life and Letters. Mike Hopkins and Mark…

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