science education
Indiana Senate passes bill to teach Christian, Hindu, and Scientology origin of life – among others …
“Intelligent design talking points” are now legitimate science?
Darwin lobby trashed Texas evolution standards, but Fordham Institute says they’re mostly okay
Missouri: Bill to give equal treatment to intelligent design, evolution?
Creationism to be taught in Indiana science classes?
Must-see Vid: Darwin’s heretic — Alfred Russel Wallace
A few months back, we looked at the story of Wallace’s views here and again here. Now, thanks to an online premiere, here’s the movie (HT: ENV): [youtube hxvAVln6HLI] Relax, enjoy, and discuss. END _____________ F/N: to understand Wallace, have a read of his major book published in 1910 ff, The World of Life (cf. here, here, here and here at Amazon — republished, of course, by Forgotten Books).
“Gut feelings” matter more than fact, in getting students to accept evolution, study finds
Doctor challenges Darwin’s men in peer-reviewed Baylor medical journal
Thoughts on Washington Post’s Jay Mathews’ endorsement of “teaching the ID controversy”
When declining credibility gets you more funding
More popcorn: A virtual tour of the cell (and a link to another)
Courtesy North Dakota State U: [youtube YM2X1c4K1x0] (And for those wanting a narrated version of the famous XVIVO vid, cf here.) Remember, we are looking at these videos in light of Denton’s remark of 1985: To grasp the reality of life as it has been revealed by molecular biology, we must magnify a cell a thousand million times until it is twenty kilometers in diameter [[so each atom in it would be “the size of a tennis ball”] and resembles a giant airship large enough to cover a great city like London or New York. What we would then see would be an object of unparalleled complexity and adaptive design. On the surface of the cell we would see millions Read More ›