Tag: Evolution
Missouri Lawmaker Wants To Make Biology Class An Elective
Fact: You cannot teach biology without evolution.
Several years ago, my 10th grade son was taking AP Bio. My Bio major (and quite successful immunologist today) brother asked to see his textbook. When I (art major sister) asked why, my brother said, “Just wanted to make sure the textbook started off with evolution. It does, so all is fine.”
Which brings us to this nonsense:
I Have A Theory… Kentucky Republicans Are Idiots
Kentucky Republican Senators were all on board for educational standards until they discovered that those standards included *gasp!* evolution. In an exchange with officials from ACT, the company that prepares Kentucky’s new state testing program, those lawmakers discussed whether evolution was a fact and whether the biblical account of creationism also should be taught in […]
The Rap Guide to Evolution
According to the artist — this may be the first peer reviewed rap album ever.
Let’s Hear It for Evolution
The 2011 Miss USA “scholarship” pageant was held last night in Las Vegas. Out of the 51 contestants, only two of them said that they believed in evolution. Out of all the contestants in last night’s Miss USA pageant, only two affirmed they thought evolution should be taught in schools. The winner, 21-year-old Alyssa Campanella […]
A Museum Curator Visits The Creation Museum
PZ Myers passes along some observations from a museum curator who visited the Creation Museum in Kentucky and wrote about it in a peer-reviewed journal.
Intelligent Design Is Not Science
Read this statement: The measure from Republican state Rep. Bill Zedler would block higher education institutions from discriminating against or penalizing teachers or students based on their research into intelligent design or other theories that disagree with evolution. Zedler said he filed the bill because of cases in which colleges had been hostile to those […]
Tornoe’s Toon: Christine O’Donnell and Evolution
I don’t know the last time someone had to vote on 2+2, but I’d still like my elected representative to know that the answer was four.
Darwin Trumps You, Mr. Freshwater
Meet John Freshwater, an eighth-grade school science teacher from Ohio who likes to play loose with the facts, use the Bible as a scientific resource, and, yes, torture children with electricity. The New York Times reports that the school district started the procedure to fire Freshwater back on June 2008 because he burned crosses into […]
Happy Origin Day!
One hundred fifty years ago today Charles Darwin’s On The Origin of Species was published. It is arguably the most important scientific work ever published. It was the product of painstaking scientific observation. Darwin was not only a scientist’s scientist, he was a great writer and populizer of science. It’s amazing to consider that Origin […]
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