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Month: October 2008

Falconry Wildlife 

Birders Practice Falconry Without a License in Illinois

2008/10/31 Wesley R. Elsberry birding, burrowing owl, incidental take, over-eager birders, regret after the fact

The Chicago Tribune reports on the case of birders practicing falconry without a license. The species—a burrowing owl and a

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Antievolution Education Law and Politics 

Crowther Doing What the DI Pays Him For

2008/10/31 Wesley R. Elsberry history of intelligent design, intelligent design is creationism, rob crowther

Rob Crowther, Discovery Institute spokesperson, has an op-ed in the Vancouver Sun. Intelligent Design goes beyond biology and encompasses physics,

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Antievolution Education Law and Politics 

Texas: ICR is Disappointed, Again

2008/10/30 Wesley R. Elsberry institute for creation research, pseudoscience

The Institute for Creation Research is continuing to press to get their pseudoscience degree-granting operation set up for business in

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Antievolution Education Law and Politics Media 

Texas: “Zombie Jamboree in Texas”

2008/10/30 Wesley R. Elsberry Glenn Branch, science education, texas

Glenn Branch, Deputy Director of the National Center for Science Education, has a blog post in the Beacon Broadside, “Zombie

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Antievolution Education Law and Politics Media 

The SF Chronicle Interviews Lauri Lebo

2008/10/29 Wesley R. Elsberry kitzmiller v. dover area school district, lauri lebo

The San Francisco Chronicle has an interview online with Lauri Lebo, journalist and author of The Devil in Dover. One

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Antievolution Education Law and Politics 

More DI Misinformation

2008/10/29 Wesley R. Elsberry intelligent design, science education, texas

Yes, there’s another post at the Discovery Institute blog. This one is by Rob Crowther, and it seeks to reassure

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Antievolution Education Law and Politics 

Texas: Getting Involved

2008/10/282008/10/29 Wesley R. Elsberry national center for science education, science education, texas, texas citizens for science, texas freedom network

I got a call today from a friend in Texas who until recently was a high school science and math

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Computation Education Science 

NCSE’s New Website

2008/10/272008/10/27 Wesley R. Elsberry national center for science education

The National Center for Science Education has long planned a revision of their web pages. Now, the new version of

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Antievolution Computation Science 

The Real Weasel in JavaScript

2008/10/242008/10/27 Wesley R. Elsberry richard dawkins, weasel program, william dembski

I set up a page taking a first pass at providing a “weasel” program that follows the description Richard Dawkins

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Law and Politics Science Wildlife 

Say Good-Bye to Sage Grouse

2008/10/21 Wesley R. Elsberry edangered species act, renewable energy, sage grouse

The campaign to eradicate sage grouse continues. The San Francisco Chronicle reports on Nevada Gov. Gibbons and his comments on

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Antievolution Law and Politics 

Texas: A Word from the Pro-Science Side, Too

2008/10/19 Wesley R. Elsberry daniel bolnick, science standards, texas

The Waco Tribune had two op-eds, the one I noted earlier from antievolutionist Don McLeroy, but also one from Daniel

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Antievolution Law and Politics 

Is Winning a Mock Trial Supposed to be an Antievolutionist Consolation Prize?

2008/10/19 Wesley R. Elsberry kentucky, mock trial

Art on ATBC reports on a mock trial to be held at Northern Kentucky University on October 22nd, or this

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Antievolution Law and Politics Media 

Texas: McLeroy Speaks Out

2008/10/19 Wesley R. Elsberry science standards, strengths and weaknesses, texas

The Waco Tribune published an op-ed piece by SBOE Chair Don McLeroy. I’m too worn out right now for a

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Antievolution General 

Dembski and Marks Are Still Mischaracterizing Dawkins’ “Weasel”

2008/10/192021/11/10 Wesley R. Elsberry bob marks, evolutionary computation, weasel, william dembski

William Dembski has a post up at Uncommon Descent that brings us up-to-date, somewhat, with what Dembski and Bob Marks

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Antievolution Law and Politics 

Texas: IDC Event in Fort Worth

2008/10/18 Wesley R. Elsberry bradley monton, debate, denis alexander, fort worth, intelligent design creationism, lawrence krauss

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s categorization of the following short piece is spot-on, being part of Religion Briefs. Sessions slated on

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Antievolution Science 

Information Increase in Evolution

2008/10/172008/11/17 Wesley R. Elsberry algorithmic information theory, evolutionary increases in information, information, joel tay, kolmogorov, shannon

I was looking up stuff on bacterial DNT degradation, and ran across a post by Joel Tay on antievolutionist criticisms

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Antievolution Law and Politics Media 

Science Education Gets Noticed by the NYT

2008/10/162008/10/17 Wesley R. Elsberry barack obama, fairness argument, John McCain, new york times

The New York Times has an article about the slipping technology lead of the USA and the presidential candidate’s plans

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Antievolution Law and Politics 

Texas: The Science Textbook Review Panel

2008/10/152008/10/16 Wesley R. Elsberry Discovery Institute, texas, textbook selection

[Correction: the panel in question is a science curriculum review panel.] Six people were appointed. An earlier post took up

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Antievolution Law and Politics 

Texas: Discovery Institute Scores Two

2008/10/15 Wesley R. Elsberry Discovery Institute, ideologues, Ralph Seelke, Stephen Meyer

Discovery Institute Vice President Stephen Meyer and co-author Ralph Seelke were appointed to a six-member textbook review panel by the

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General Law and Politics Media 

Stanley Kurtz, the Obama Campaign, and Radio

2008/10/152008/10/15 Wesley R. Elsberry Obama campaign, prior restraint, Stanley Kurtz

I promised David Heddle a post about the Stanley Kurtz interview incident. And I wrote one just now that WordPress

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