Showing posts with label Dover. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dover. Show all posts
Friday, April 20, 2018

The Slander of “Darwinism”

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Kenneth Miller has written yet another extraordinary essay , this one on the nature of the term “Darwinism” and how it is pejoratively used ...
Thursday, October 05, 2017

NCSE Post Reflecting on Kitzmiller, Twelve Years Later, by Eugenie Scott

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NCSE has a guest post by Eugenie Scott, in which she remembers some of the points about Kitzmiller that might not have been public at the t...
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

The York Dispatch: The Losers Are Winning in Dover

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The York Dispatch has an editorial on the aftermath of the Dover trial and how it has affected the plaintiffs in the case.  In short: not w...
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Saturday, September 12, 2015

York Daily Record: Ten Years Since Kitzmiller

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The York Daily Record has an issue on the ten year anniversary of the Kitzmiller decision that devastated the intelligent design movement. ...
Friday, May 24, 2013

Meanwhile, Over in "Oiho"

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The Dayton Daily News is covering the goings on of the Springboro School Board, which is in the news yet again , and is locked in a tussle ...
Monday, April 29, 2013

Teachers and Evolution: Coming Through the Back Door

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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has an interesting editorial on the creation/evolution question as it pertains to science teachers and, in the...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Tennessean: TN evolution law may change nothing

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According to an article in the Tennessean, the new “monkey bill” may change nothing about the way science is taught. Here is the accompanyi...
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Friday, March 23, 2012

Todd Wood Thinks SB893 is Superfluous

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Todd Wood has written to Governor Haslam, arguing that the passage of SB893 is pointless. The link to the letter appears to be broken on To...
Monday, March 19, 2012

Video on the Deliberation of SB893

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Here is the deliberation of the senate bill by Bo Watson, which passed 7 to 1, with one abstaining (click on SB0893). There was one amendme...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

New Book on the Dover Trial

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Research and Markets is hawking a new book by Gordy Slack on the Dover trial that pitted ID against some agitated parents and wound up bein...
Sunday, February 05, 2012

Indiana: They Did It Anyway...

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WANE-TV in Indiana is reporting that , with a vote of 28-22, the Indiana Senate passed a law to teach creationism in the Indiana public scho...
Tuesday, August 09, 2011

“Academic Freedom” in Ohio

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The Columbus Dispatch reports on the town of Springboro that is attempting to add “supplemental” material to their school curriculum. As th...
Friday, March 04, 2011

Casey Luskin Invokes Need for Tennessee HB 368

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In Evolution News and Views, Casey Luskin has endorsed the need for Tennessee House Bill 368. He writes: Why do we need academic freedom l...
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Friday, November 19, 2010

Education Week: Evolution Education Working

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According to an article in Education Week, the fallout from the Dover trial in 2005 has been bad for creationism and intelligent design. S...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

2theadvocate Opines on Livingston Parrish

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In an unsigned editorial (why?) in 2theadvocate, the writer expresses dismay at the goings on in Livingston Parrish over the proposal to te...
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Intelligent Alien Intervention Institute

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Gordon Glover has a new video on Youtube that is a complete howl. It takes on the "academic freedom" legislation to point out tha...
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Monday, August 24, 2009

Josh Rosenau Calls Casey Luskin on the Carpet

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Josh Rosenau of Thoughts from Kansas notes that Casey Luskin's recent apology for misreading Kenneth Miller comes off a bit lacking in ...
Friday, August 21, 2009

A Brief History of the Discovery Institute

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I missed this one a few years back. In 2006, Roger Downey wrote a column for the Seattle News about the history of the Discovery Institute...
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Sunday, July 12, 2009

Rumblings in Kentucky

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The Kentucky Board of Education is still debating about who to appoint as their head. According to a story in the Lexington Herald Leader,...
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Thursday, February 16, 2006

Of Pandas and People, Part 3

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Two of the central concepts in understanding descent with modification are analogy and homology. Analogy is where different anatomical struc...