Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Friday, February 02, 2018

Jesuit Review: Creationism Isn't About Science, it’s about theology (and it’s really bad theology).

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Eric Sundrup has an editorial in the Jesuit Review about what is wrong with young earth creationism.  He has some very good observations :...
Tuesday, August 09, 2016

PJ Media Takes on NPR on Science and Completely Misses the Point

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Science is not a democratic exercise.  There is either scientific support for a theory or there is not.  If there are competing views about ...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

Nearly Half of Americans Accept Astrology As Science

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How bad is the science education in this country?  UPI is running a story about the acceptance of astrology in the United States.  It is de...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Injecting A New Idea Into the Debate

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Ow. Still hurts to type. Charles Haynes suggests a new tactic in the effort to educate students about the vacuity of ID and creationism i...
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Thursday, November 10, 2011

John Evans — “Science and Religion: A False Divide?”

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I missed this when it came out. John Evans of the L.A. Times (not normally a newspaper I pick up) wrote an interesting column about the co...
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Thursday, September 02, 2010

Zombie: The Problem of Conservatism and the Anti-Science Movement

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Zombie over at Pajamas Media has a long post on " What is Wrong with Texas? " The post deals with the influence of the Texas Stat...
Friday, August 20, 2010

Cornelius Hunter and the Nature of Science

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Cornelius Hunter has an interesting piece on his blog "Darwin's God." He waxes about the nature of science and how theory is ...
Monday, March 15, 2010

Growing Up Science-Literate in Japan

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My guest column over at Steve Martin's blog is up, titled Growing up Science-Literate in Japan . ---------------- Now playing: Peter Gab...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Slightly Off-Topic: Top 25 Science TV Shows of All Time

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Blogger Carolyn Friedman has a post on her blog call the " Top 25 Science TV Shows of All Time. " Much to her credit, she has Ba...
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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Science Teacher Grants

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The Valdosta State University News is reporting that six Georgia local science teachers are being sent to professional development training...
Thursday, January 14, 2010

Eugenie Scott Receives NAS Public Welfare Medal

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Eugenie Scott, the executive director of the National Center for Science Education, received the Public Welfare Medal from the National Acad...
Monday, January 04, 2010

The Trouble With Communicating Science

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Chris Mooney of the Washington Post has an article on why science is such a hard sell. Using "climategate" as a backdrop, he wri...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Slightly Off-Topic: "Paging Harrison Bergeron!"

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Only in Berkeley. The East Bay Express has a story on the redesign of the Berkeley High School, in which the school's science budget, ...
Thursday, December 03, 2009

The Most Important Scientific Breaththrough of the Last Decade

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The Irish Times has a story on the most important scientific discoveries of the last ten years. Among the big winners: the Toumai skull, Sa...
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Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Hadrosaur Species Drop by a Third

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Worse than a meteor impact is a scientists' correction. According to Science Daily , a reexamination of the diversity of hadrosaurs has...
Saturday, November 14, 2009

The Dividing Line?

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Peter Lindsay has written an op-ed for the Atlanta Constitution-Journal in which he tackles the confluence of evolution and religion. He w...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Resources: Evolution at the National Academies

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The National Academies has a web site devoted to evolution resources. The site has been redesigned to take into account the 200th annivers...
Friday, July 10, 2009

More on the Differences Between Scientists and Non-Scientists

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Dan Vergano of USA Today has a story on how the public perceives science and how scientists perceive themselves. For example: •Evolution. 3...
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Thursday, July 09, 2009

Creation, Evolution and Closed Minds

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According to a story in the Australian, a new article called Science communication reconsidered, in the journal Nature Biotechnology sugge...
Wednesday, June 03, 2009

New Edited Volume by Ronald Numbers

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The Globe and Mail has an article on a new book edited by Ronald Numbers, who wrote the exceptional book The Creationists . The new book, c...