Science, AntiScience and Geology

Governor Scott continued his assault on education in Florida with a late Friday veto of the so-called 'market rate tuition bill' (SB7129). The veto came after cutting 300 million dollars from Uni...

http://scienceantiscience.blogspot.com/2012/04/rick-scotts-bizarre-view-of-higher.html

Steve Newton of the National Center for Science Education has a very nice piece coming out in next month's issue of Earth . The article is entitled "Creationism Creeps into Conferences: Are creat...

http://scienceantiscience.blogspot.com/2011/06/earth-magazine-article-july-2011.html

Senator Wise singles out evolution for critical analysis, but the real question is what is he really aiming for? The Sunshine State Standards ALREADY MANDATE that all science is critically evalua...

http://scienceantiscience.blogspot.com/2011/03/senator-wise-evolution-bill.html

So not only is the conservative house and senate now intent on all kinds of silly changes to the teaching standards , they also are now going to assure that potential teachers steer well clear of...

http://scienceantiscience.blogspot.com/2011/03/in-florida-teachers-get-ready-to-take.html

Senator Stephen Wise (Florida State Senator) has introduced a bigoted and prejudicial bill into consideration. Specifically SB1854 makes a mockery of this country's rich and diverse history. Con...

http://scienceantiscience.blogspot.com/2011/03/senator-stephen-wise-florida-bigoted.html

Shortly after the elections last fall, I looked over the different Florida house and senate races and saw the 'perfect storm' for the so-called Academic Freedom bill to be reintroduced. Sure eno...

http://scienceantiscience.blogspot.com/2011/03/as-predicted-academic-freedom-bill.html

Is showing the premiere of its new CGI animated Story of the Earth program. I had the good fortune of being one of the scientific consultants for this film and am anxiously awaiting the premiere...

http://scienceantiscience.blogspot.com/2011/03/national-geographic-channel.html

Well, "Dr." Terry Jones just did not like the brevity of his 15 minutes , so he's at it again. About a week ago, he parked a trailer outside his church (now numbering a weird 20 or so members...

http://scienceantiscience.blogspot.com/2011/01/terry-jones-cant-get-enough.html

Ok, now that I have the attention of the young earth creationists, I can report on a just published study in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters (Nebel et al., 2011 "Evaluation of the...

http://scienceantiscience.blogspot.com/2010/12/decay-rates-are-not-constant.html

  DISCOVERY BY UF GEOLOGIST REKINDLES DEBATE ON ORIGINS OF MULTI-CELLULAR LIFE Filed under Research , Sciences on Wednesday, December 22, 2010. GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A recent discovery by...

http://scienceantiscience.blogspot.com/2010/12/ediacara.html

So today I was preparing for my talk tomorrow to the Gainesville Humanist Society .  I am reviewing creationist legislation in Florida and how the Florida Citizens for Science has been fighting...

http://scienceantiscience.blogspot.com/2010/11/florida-academic-freedom-coming-soon.html

I'll be giving a talk Monday night at the Alachua County Library (downtown branch) to the Humanist Society of Gainesville.  The tenative title of my talk is "The Florida Citizens for Science and...

http://scienceantiscience.blogspot.com/2010/11/humanist-society-of-gainesville.html

From ABCNews about a pastor who has lost his faith.  It's interesting that someone so entrenched in faith can eventually read widely enough to challenge their long-held beliefs.  I link to thi...

http://scienceantiscience.blogspot.com/2010/11/southern-baptist-pastor-turns-atheist.html

Creationist Marcus Ross was at it again during the 2010 Geological Society of America Meeting. He, along with creationists Steve Austin , William Hoesch , John Whitmore and Timothy Clarey led a...

http://scienceantiscience.blogspot.com/2010/11/marcus-ross-two-faced-again.html

"The Sun is shinin, the stands are fillin and it's a fine afternoon for baseball....." Longtime Detroit Tigers baseball announcer Ernie Harwell died yesterday at the age of 92. I grew up in Mic...

http://scienceantiscience.blogspot.com/2010/05/ernie-harwell-dies.html

Today I received word that I had been elected as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America . It's not a huge deal, but it's nice to be recognized as a contributor to my field of science. Che...

http://scienceantiscience.blogspot.com/2010/05/some-nice-news.html

One of the more interesting aspects regarding the health care debate is how arguments (on either side) are being framed. By and large every senator or congressman comes up with an anecdotal story...

http://scienceantiscience.blogspot.com/2010/03/health-care-debate-and-creationism.html

An interesting, and oft repeated viewpoint on atheists was posted on the Answers in Genesis website by John Upchurch . His thesis is summarized below with my comments: > I stand by my clai...

http://scienceantiscience.blogspot.com/2010/03/john-upchurch-answers-in-genesis.html

Two interesting stories came out yesterday and today. The first was a major paper that reiterated that it was the impact of an asteroid near the Yucatan peninsula that killed the dinosaurs. The h...

http://scienceantiscience.blogspot.com/2010/03/on-climate-and-dinosaurs.html

From Bridge for Tomorrow: Florida House GOP Proposal Would Leave High School Science Behind Florida House Republican and Speaker hopeful Eric Fresen has filed a bill for next spring’s legisla...

http://scienceantiscience.blogspot.com/2010/03/hmm-florida-science-education-takes.html

Well actually in a broad sense this was predicted in a paper by Ruegg et al. (2009) in Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors (v175, p 78-85). > The Concepción–Constitución area  ...

http://scienceantiscience.blogspot.com/2010/03/scientists-predict-chilean-earthquake.html

http://blog.al.com/breaking/2010/02/biology_professor_accused_in_u.html And how long before evolution is to blame? I bet within 24 hours POST-BLOG far too easy for me.

http://scienceantiscience.blogspot.com/2010/02/biology-professor-arrested.html

So I was reading this book called "The Holy Bible" the other day and was fascinated to read the story of Jesus of Pooh. In reading the gospel according to Matt, I learned that Jesus' mother "M...

http://scienceantiscience.blogspot.com/2010/02/jesus-pooh.html

So, the challenge for me by my creationist friend was to explain the Austin chalk because he apparently believes its existence is supportive of a global flood. I don't know where he got the idea...

http://scienceantiscience.blogspot.com/2010/02/continuing-on-austin-chalk.html

So a creationist on facebook has challenged me for an explanation of the "Austin chalk line". I take it for some reason that the existence of the Austin Chalk is evidence for a global flood. I m...

http://scienceantiscience.blogspot.com/2010/02/on-global-flood.html