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Answer Monday
Last week’s Fossil Friday specimen was, as I’m sure all of you could see, little more than a humble jaw. The question, of course, is whose jaw was it? Let’s take a look at the full picture: This week, as I start to make some early preparations for Darwin’s birthday, I’ll reveal that we are…
What We’re Reading
Tanks to our loyal readers! (The illustration shows a temporary library facility established in an abandoned water supply reservoir in the wake of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.) And best wishes for the new year from all of us at NCSE. A Yankee at Oxford: John William Draper at the British…
Fossil Friday
This week in Fossil Friday, I have a specimen from a species that is part of an interesting story, although sadly my photo quality is rather poor. The fragments from which this specimen was reconstructed were found in Italy, and I think that, with all the hard work I did obscuring the…
The Rabbinical Assembly adds its voice for evolution
The chorus of support for the teaching of evolution continues, with a statement from the Rabbinical Assembly, adopted in 2006. Describing "intelligent design" as not having "the characteristics of a legitimate scientific theory" and warning that the teaching of "intelligent design" in the…
The Rocky Road to Acceptance, Part 4
Steven Dutch concludes his review of James L. Powell’s Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences (2015), which began with part 1 and continued in part 2 and part 3. Conclusions I only found one significant technical error in the book. Powell erroneously states…
The Rocky Road to Acceptance, Part 3
Steven Dutch continues his review of James L. Powell’s Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences (2015), which began with part 1 and continued in part 2. Meteor impact The acceptance of metor impacts as a major player in geologic history is actually a tale of…
“Absurdly Inadequate”
Perhaps I begin to sound like a broken phonograph, but I find that chapter 28—“Scientists Condemn Evolution”—of William A. Williams’s The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved (1925) is the gift that keeps on giving. (The phrase, I find, was originally a marketing slogan for a…
The Rocky Road to Acceptance, Part 2
Steven Dutch continues his review of James L. Powell’s Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences (2015), which began with part 1. Radiometric dating In the case of geologic dating, geologists crashed headlong into Lord Kelvin, the leading physicist of the…
The Rocky Road to Acceptance, Part 1
James L. Powell’s Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences (2015) is an excellent book that reviews four geoscience revolutions: accurate geologic dating techniques, the theory of plate tectonics, the discovery of an era-ending meteor impact, and the advent of anthropogenic climate change…

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