Museum director: “Darwin’s theory of evolution not only underpins all biological science, it has an immense predictive power.”
And he is serious. Even bout the predictive power. At the Guardian Michael Dixon, director of London’s Natural History Museum is upset about the downplaying the teaching of evolution which he perceives to be happening in the United State and Israel (not many details offered). Sarah Chaffee reminds us: If you remember, this is the museum founded by structuralist Richard Owen. The leadership there demonstrated its respect for Owen, a great scientist ahead of his time, by replacing a prominently placed 2,000-pound statue of him with one of Charles Darwin. Removing evolution from biology classes is a bad idea. But Dixon’s attitude is strangely dogmatic. He notes: “Darwin’s theory of evolution not only underpins all biological science, it has an Read More ›