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Richard Leakey, Evolution and Motivated Reasoning
Richard Leakey, son of Mary and Louis Leakey, is a deservedly famous paleoanthropologist who has contributed significantly to our understanding of human evolution. In a recent interview he expressed...
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Feathers More Common Among Dinosaurs
The story of feathered dinosaurs is one of the strongest success stories for evolutionary theory, and continues to be a thorn in the side of evolution deniers. They cannot help but expose their...
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Egnor Tries to Write about Evolution to Humorous Effect
Science makes predictions. That is inherent to the scientific process. It’s what makes hypotheses testable – they make predictions about what will be observed in nature, about the outcome of...
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The Banana Genome
Published in Nature this month is a report of the entire genetic sequence of Musa acuminata – the Cavendish banana. The banana is the most popular fruit in the industrialized world. Banana varieties...
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Bill Nye and Science vs Business Communication
Bill Nye recently produced a video as part of the Big Think series on YouTube, this one arguing that creationism is not appropriate for children. The video has sparked some debate, but not just about...
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Creationists Improve Teaching of Evolution in South Korea
This is a wonderfully ironic story from South Korea involving the presentation of evolution in science textbooks. Three months ago we learned that there was a clever effort by South Korean creationists...
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Responding to Creationists Responding to Bill Nye
Bill Nye (the Science Guy) has a YouTube video that is part of the Big Think series, in which he makes the argument that teaching children creationism rather than evolutionary theory does them a great...
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Truth in Education
We have yet another propaganda slogan and strategy by creationists to sneak their religious beliefs into public science classrooms – “truth in education.” This one comes from state senator Dennis...
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The Hobbit
OK – I’m not talking about the upcoming release of the first movie in the next Peter Jackson Tolkien trilogy. I am, however, anxiously awaiting the film, because I love Tolkien, I thought the Lord of...
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The Evolution of Feathers
As a follow up to my post last week on feathered dinosaurs, I received this question over e-mail: How would a creature get feathers in the first place? I figure there would be some intermediary stages...
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Evolved to Gamble
It is tempting to make arguments about how and why particular aspects of human psychology evolved. I will not be getting into an evolutionary psychology discussion in this post, I will just say I find...
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Jindal – Teach the Controversy
“Bottom line, at the end of the day, we want our kids to be exposed to the best facts. Let’s teach them about the big bang theory, let’s teach them about evolution…” Not a bad sentiment so far. I don’t...
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An Interview with Don McLeroy, Part II
In part I of my analysis of a recent interview with Don McLeroy on the SGU I discussed his assertion that those of faith are more free to accept or reject the evidence for evolution, while strict...
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An Interview with Don McLeroy, Part III
This week I am posting a discussion with Don McLeroy, a young Earth creationist and former chairman of the Texas Board of Education during the recent controversy over the science textbook standards....
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An Interview with Don McLeroy, Part IV
This is the fourth is a series of posts analyzing the claims of Don McLeroy, former chairman of the Texas School Board of Education and young Earth creationist. I recently interviewed Don on the SGU...
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Don McLeroy Replies
Two weeks ago I wrote a four-part post analyzing the claims of Don McLeroy, former chairman of the Texas Board of Education, based mostly on an interview I did with him on the SGU. The posts also...
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Yet Another Fossil Bird – Aurornis xui
Keeping with the recent discussion of the evidence for evolution, I want to discuss another well-preserved fossil bird from the Liaoning Province in China – Aurornis xui, or the dawn bird. As the name...
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Final Response from Don McLeroy
Here is it. Steven, We agree that historical sciences like evolution are “tested” by the evidence. My key insight from our discussion is we disagree about the amount of evidence needed to demonstrate...
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Creationism is Not Science
“In fact, we have solid proof in our hands that evolution’s a lie: the Bible. You see, we can’t depend solely on our reasoning ability to convince skeptics. We present the evidence and do the best we...
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More on Logic and Thermodynamics
Michael Egnor likes to play the game of Name That Logical Fallacy – or at least he likes to set up other people to play that game. He is a creationist neurosurgeon who has been blogging over at...
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