Update on CU Boulder Threats
There is more information available now on The Panda’s Thumb.
There is more information available now on The Panda’s Thumb.
The state’s director of science curriculum has resigned after being accused of creating the appearance of bias against teaching intelligent design. (Source: Austin-American Statesman A number of other bloggers have commented on this already (Pharyngula here and here, Wesley Elsberry, and The Panda’s Thumb), and you can review the story there. I’m generally a “late…
One characteristic of creationist debate over the last few decades has been moving the goal posts. Every time a new fossil is discovered that fits into the evolutionary pattern for some lineage we hear the “it’s still an X” litany, followed by pointing to yet more gaps. Each new fossil, it seems, creates new gaps…
James McGrath has an interesting crop of evolutionary links from the blogosphere today.
Dowd, Michael. Thank God for Evolution. New York: Plume, 2007. 380 pages + front and back matter. ISBN: 978-0-452-29534-6. (All numbers in parentheses are page numbers from this edition of the book.) I was interested in this book from the moment I saw the title, not because I immediately expected to agree, but because it,…
Earlier I blogged about Dr. Steve Matheson’s use of the term “folk-science” to deal with some creationist writing about science. in that post I struggled with that term, and how to distinguish lies from differences of opinion, viewpoint, and simple ignorance. Well, Dr. Matheson is now dealing with some material he outright calls lies. This…
I think I’m at least in the right month this time, which is a good thing because there are some really interesting things to read on the creation-evolution controversy. Some time ago I wrote about a waste of $25 million represented by the creation museum in Kentucky. As it turns out it was a waste…