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Acts & Facts is the monthly publication of the Institute for Creation Research, which equips “believers with evidence of the Bible’s accuracy and authority through scientific research…”Here at NCSE, we maintain a subscription to Acts & Facts to remain informed of the ICR’…
Photo Credit: angela7dreams via Compfight cc Last week on Fossil Friday, I gave you a pretty easy plant fossil to identify. Why so easy? Al though this fossil dates back to the Miocene, there are plenty of this same genus around today! What was it? An Acacia of course, found in Mint…
I have no expectation that televangelist Pat Robertson cares what I think. It’s even possible that, when it comes to creationism, his interests and mine may not be in full alignment. But I think he should take Answers in Genesis and noted Ark enthusiast Ken Ham up on this offer: I wonder if Pat…
This week on Fossil Friday, I bring you another green thing from ancient history. Of course, this plant is actually still around today, even though this fossil dates to the Miocene. This small leaf is about the size of a quarter and was found in Southern California. …
About two thousand students in the eighth grade in California’s Rialto Unified School District—outside San Bernardino, in what Californians like to call the Inland Empire— were recently asked to “read and discuss multiple, credible articles on this issue, and write an argumentative essay, based…
Last Sunday's episode of Cosmos nicely weaves together the history of science popularization with the development of a theory of electricity, the theory that makes it possible to disseminate shows like Cosmos so widely. This is made easy by the fact that Michael Faraday, a…
The Showtime program Years of Living Dangerously, which is now partly through its first and—given its low ratings—possibly only season, blends celebrity star power with insights and investigations into climate change. As to whether the show is able successfully to motivate people to…
Not the likeliest of pairings, of course, whatever the latter is supposed to be, but bear with me while I explain. Language Log, one of the few blogs that I read for pleasure, was founded by two linguists, Mark Liberman and Geoffrey Pullum, features posts by them and a handful of additional…
Photo Credit: Forest Clay via Compfight cc Last Friday, I shared a "green" fossil to celebrate "bike to work week". Many of you recognized this plant as an ancestral oak—but which one? There were many guesses: Red oak, black oak, turkey oak, pin oak, cherrybark oak, but none of these were…