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Yes - I'm glad to see them backtracking from the initial video, but lets see if Comfort actually keeps this promise to be truly "fair"!
September 28, 2009
From the website Living Waters about the book: In November of 2009, we will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species, by giving away 100,000 copies of the book (304-pages) at 100 top U.S. universi…
September 28, 2009
Well, Skeptical Deb, UCSD is on the list of the 50 schools where they plan to distribute these special editions. So you could pick up a copy there, I'm sure! :-)
September 28, 2009
I was trying to find where the books were going to be distributed. I found that you can buy your own copy at: http://www.livingwaters.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=7&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=393&option=com_virtuemart&Item
September 28, 2009
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Sullied, of course, by a 50 page "introduction" full of shrill polemical drivel that will have nothing to do with the actual content of the book itself! To be given away - free, on the top 50 campuses in the country! May be the top 100 campuses... w…
September 20, 2009
The new discoveries about how our brain works are fascinating, indeed - and we are still in the early days of understanding! And people who reject science for whatever reason are closing themselves off from these marvels - that's what saddens me abo…
July 23, 2009
In my opinion, most of us are "wired" for belief. I think belief is a spandral (in the Stephen Jay Gould sense of the word) in that it is an "unintended consequence" of our evolved ability to imagine and predict the future. I think we need to serio…
July 23, 2009
We had a teacher in the department that was very religious but she took the view that Darwin expressed "God breathed life into one or a few creatures from which all creatures have so wonderously evolved." (Not sure that's exact but it's essential ri…
July 22, 2009

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http://reconciliationecology.blogspot.com
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I'm an Assistant Professor of Vertebrate Ecology in the Biology Department at California State University, Fresno
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California State University, Fresno
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Evolutionary Ecologist
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On losing an individual battle on the educational frontier of the evolution-creation culture war!

Its an odd coincidence that I got a message from Atheist Nexus today, causing me to log in after a long time. Not that I put much stock in coincidences, but I feel distinctly odd. Odd because the email came right after I got out of a meeting with my born-again devout christian graduate student who announced they were quitting the biology graduate program after a prolonged struggle, and much prayer, to try to reconcile faith with evolution!

I won't go into all the details of the back and forth d… Continue

Posted on July 21, 2009 at 6:16pm — 11 Comments

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