What's New on NAiG

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CMI/AiG lawsuit update [off site]
"Answers in Genesis (AiG) sent out a new letter to supporters dated July 23, 2008, and is distributing copies of court filings in the United States regarding their attempt to force Creation Ministries International (CMI) into arbitration and override the lawsuit CMI filed in Australia."
The Lippard Blog, 9 August 2008

 12 Aug. '08

Creationism News & Features Service (CNFS)
 John Stear, August 2008
 		 12 Aug. '08


Robert O'Brien Trophy Winner: Tom Willis  (off site)
"... this guy might qualify as the Grand Poobah Dumbass of the century... "

 		 12 Aug. '08

The Discovery Institute, the LA Family Forum, and the "LA Science Education Act"  (off site)
"The Discovery Institute has teamed up with the LA Family Forum, the Louisiana affiliate of Focus on the Family,
to promote a stealth creationism bill in the guise of 'academic freedom' legislation."
Barbara Forrest, 26 June 2008
 		 12 Aug. '08

How Darwin won the evolution race (off site)
"It's 150 years since Darwin made one of the the most significant breakthroughs in scientific history - the theory of natural selection. But if it hadn't been for a young ornithologist on the other side of the world, his seminal work might never have appeared. Robin McKie tells the extraordinary story behind The Origin of Species"
Robin McKie, The Observer, 22 June 2008
 12 Aug. '08

Fossil helps document shift from sea to land  (off site)
 "New fossils of an ancient, four-limbed creature help fill in the blanks of the evolutionary transition between fish and the first land-adapted vertebrates."
Sid Perkins, 25 June 2008
 12 Aug. '08

You can tune a piano but you can't tunicate… (off site)
 "[This] article is ostensibly about enumerating unsolved questions in evolutionary theory but instead what it does is highlight a deeply rooted set of character flaws in the 'creation science' movement and its leaders... "
 Troy Britain, 22 June 2008
 12 Aug. '08

A wandering eye (off site)
"Fossils show middle stage of the evolution of flatfish eyes to one side of their head"
Ashley Yeager, 9 July 2008
 		 12 Aug. '08

Missing The Wrist  (off site)
"If this is the sort of stuff that's used to promote 'critical thinking' in Louisiana classrooms, don't be surprised to hear about the great gravity hoax."
Carl Zimmer, 14 July 2008
 12 Aug. '08

Lenski gives Conservapædia a lesson  (off site)
PZ Myers, 24 June 2008
 		 12 Aug. '08
Dr Carl Wieland should say "sorry!"
John Stear, June 2008
 		 16 June '08
Edward Blyth: Creationist or Just Another Misinterpreted Scientist? (off site)
 James K. Willmot, butterflies and wheels.com
 		 16 June '08
And the award for most hysterical antievolutionist nonsense of the week goes to.… (off site)
 From Troy Britain's weblog Playing Chess with Pigeons 28 April 2008
 		 16 June '08
We have tantrum sex (off site)
 Richard Glover, 26 April 2008
 		 16 June '08
Quotes [revised]
 		 16 June '08
Scientists Know Better Than You--Even When They're Wrong (off site)
Why fallible expertise trumps armchair science—a Q&A with sociologist of science Harry Collins
JR Minkel
 		 16 June '08
Evolution and Creationism in America's Classrooms: A National Portrait (off site)
Michael B. Berkman, Julianna Sandell Pacheco, Eric Plutzer
 		 16 June '08
Parrot Fossil 55 Million Years Old Discovered In Scandinavia (off site)
"It's a new species, officially named 'Mopsitta tanta'. However, already its nick-name is the 'Danish Blue Parrot', a term derived from a famous comedy sketch about a 'Norwegian Blue Parrot' in the 1970s BBC television programme 'Monty Python'".
From Science Daily
 		 16 June '08

A New Step in Evolution (off site)
 "One of the most important experiments in evolution is going on right now in a laboratory in Michigan State University. A dozen flasks full of E. coli are sloshing around on a gently rocking table. The bacteria in those flasks has been evolving since 1988--for over 44,000 generations."
Carl Zimmer

 16 June '08
United Methodist Church in the News (off site)
"Therefore be it resolved that the General Conference of the United Methodist Church go on record as opposing the introduction of any faith-based theories such as Creationism or Intelligent Design into the science curriculum of our public schools."
Wesley R. Elsberry, The Austringer
 		 16 June '08
Ben Stein Is an IDiot (off site)
Larry Moran, Sandwalk, strolling with a skeptical biochemist
 		 16 June '08

Lizards Rapidly Evolve After Introduction to Island (off site)
 Kimberly Johnson, National Geographic News
April 21, 2008
"Italian wall lizards introduced to a tiny island off the coast of Croatia are evolving in ways that would normally take millions of years to play out, new research shows."

 28 April '08

Tests Confirm T. Rex Kinship With Birds (off site)
From Troy Britain's weblog "Playing Chess with Pigeons".
28 April '08

 

Devoid of intelligence (off site)
Adam Rutherford, from his weblog in The Guardian
April 15, 2008
"It now seems unlikely that a theory will ever emerge which could completely replace Darwin's theory of evolution. But should that happen, scientists would be committed to investigating it fully. Intelligent design is emphatically not that theory, as it has systematically failed to stand up to any scrutiny. But, like a turd in the u-bend, it just won't go away."		 28 April '08

 
Expelled exposed (off site)
 National Center for Science Education
 
28 April '08

 

Expelled! (off site)
Pz Myers' "Pharyngula"
 
28 April '08

 
Expelled: Now with added anti-Semitism  (off site)
John Lynch's "Stranger Fruit"
 
28 April '08

 

Two (Opposable) Thumbs Down: Skip Ben Stein's Movie And Check Out 'Expelled: Exposed' Instead  (off site)
 Rob Boston, Americans United for Church and State
28 April '08

 

Expelled Exposed, Part 1: Ben Stein's Blunder  (off site)

Expelled Exposed, Part 2: The Richard Sternberg Affair  (off site)
eSKEPTIC, the email newsletter of the Skeptics Society
 

28 April '08

 
Expelled flunks the test  (off site)
 National Center for Science Education
 
28 April '08

 


Expelled’s intelligent design theory - this is your daddy’s creationism (Parts I and II) (off site)
From Troy Britain's weblog "Playing Chess with Pigeons"
28 April '08

 
Florida: Open Letter on Learning from History (off site)
The Austringer, The Weblog of Wesley R. Elsberry
 
28 April '08

 
Happy Jihad's Happy Fatwah on Answers in Genesis Contest!! (off site)
Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes
 
28 April '08

 


Dino-Era Feathers Found Encased in Amber (off site)
James Owen for National Geographic News
March 11, 2008
"Seven dino-era feathers found perfectly preserved in amber in western France highlight a crucial stage in feather evolution, scientists report."


28 April '08

 


Darwinian Evolution on a Chip (off site)
Brian M. Paegel, Gerald F. Joyce
 "Computer control of Darwinian evolution has been demonstrated by propagating a population of RNA enzymes in a microfluidic device."
28 April '08

 


Ancient serpent shows its leg (off site)
 Jonathan Amos
Science reporter, BBC News
 
28 April '08

 
Chem4kids (off site)
 Includes sites on Astronomy, Biology, Earth Science and Physics		 28 April '08

 

Creationism can be a topic in class (off site)
Graeme Paton, The Telegraph's Education Editor
"Pupils [in the UK] should be able to ask questions about the theory [of creationism] provided teachers emphasise it has 'no underpinning scientific principles', new Government guidance says."
 

 12 March 2008

Improving Evolution Education (off site)
Kevin PadianPadian is a professor of Integrative Biology and curator in the Museum of Paleontology at the University of California at Berkeley, and president of the National Center for Science Education.
 

 12 March 2008

The testimony of Kevin Padian in Kitzmiller v. Dover  (off site)
Edited by Nick Matzke, National Center for Science Education
 

 12 March 2008
A pastoral letter on faith engaging science and technology  (off site)
The Rev. John H. Thomas, General Minister and President, United Church of Christ
 		 12 March 2008
Ken Ham, his "museum" and Satan
John Stear, February 2008
 		 12 March 2008

Resolution of the American Fisheries Society Concerning the Teaching
of Alternatives to Evolution  (off site)
 

 12 March 2008
Chimps have the jump on us in evolution  (off site)
Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News, 23 April 2007
"A comparison of human and chimpanzee genes has revealed chimps may have evolved more than humans
in the six or seven million years since both diverged from a common ancestor."
 		 12 March 2008

The Mullerian Two-Step: Add a part, make it necessary (off site)
... or, Why Behe's "Irreducible Complexity" is silly
Douglas Theobald, Ph.D.
 

 12 March 2008
Bats Flew First, Developed Echolocation Later, Fossilized Missing Link Shows (off site)
The discovery of a remarkably well-preserved fossil representing the most primitive bat species known to date demonstrates that the animals evolved the ability to fly before they could echolocate."
 12 March 2008
Smallest pterodactyl lived in trees  (off site)
Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News, 12 February 2008
"A tiny, toothless pterodactyl with bat-like wings, bird-like claws and a sharp, pointy beak has just been identified from a remarkably well-preserved Chinese fossil, scientists say."
 		 12 March 2008
Research on the Origin and Early Evolution of Whales (Cetacea)  (off site)
Philip D. Gingerich
E. C. Case Collegiate Professor of Paleontology
Professor, Department of Geological Sciences
Director, Museum of Paleontology, The University of Michigan
 		 12 March 2008

Whale Origins!  (off site)
J.G.M. Thewissen
 

 12 March 2008

Scientists cite "creator" in paper for biology journal  (off site)
Melanie Newman
"The appearance of creationist argument in a research paper in a respected biology journal has provoked concern among academics."

 12 March 2008
A baffling failure of peer review  (off site)
 Pharyngula
 		 12 March 2008

Evolution Wins as Creationists (Accidentally) Switch Sides (off site)
Brendon Keim
 

 12 March 2008

Islamic Creationism: A Short History  (off site)
Taner Edis, associate professor of physics at Truman State University, Kirksville, MO, USA
"... Islam has been the world religion that has proved most resistant to Darwinian evolution."
 

 12 March 2008
View from the lab: creationism  (off site)
"Prof Steve Jones explains why creationism has just been proved to have feet of clay."
 		 12 March 2008
Quest for Right - A Review
 James Moore
 		 2 Feb. '08

The Edge of Creationism (off site)
A review of Michael Behe's The Edge of Evolution by Nick Matzke
 

 9 Jan. '08
Mormonism and the New Creationism (off site)
David H. Bailey
 		 9 Jan. '08
Antievolution and the Conflict Model (off site)
The Austringer
 		 9 Jan. '08

Theories of origins of life, plant and animal species, the earth and the rest of the universe (off site)
"... compares and contrasts three main belief systems about origins of the Earth's life forms"
 

 9 Jan. '08
Biographica (off site)
"A summary of dramatis personae of the online biology/creationism debate."
Compiled by Wesley R. Elsberry
 		 9 Jan. '08