This story is critical to defending themselves against accusations that they deliberately mislead nearly all of their pro-evolution interviewees
Category Archives: Evolution
Rebranding creationism
April 6, 2008 – 6:31 pm
What’s next, after “creationism,’ “Creation Science,” “Intelligent Design,” etc.?
P. Z. Myers sees creationism attempting to re-brand itself as “evolution.”
Ed Brayton discusses this as The Anti-Evolution Movement: Phase 4.
In addition to the sources they discuss, I saw this coming when I heard a talk by Behe on his new book, The edge of evolution: the search [...]
Creationists’ new legistlative maneuvering: state “Academic Freedom” acts
April 6, 2008 – 4:25 pm
The latest wave of anti-bioscience activity in the legislative arenas in several states is the Introduction of “Academic Freedom” bills, such as the one introduced in Louisiana recently (and discussed by Casey Luskin at the Discovery Institute’s Evolution News and Views blog (with the illustration posted here at right).
The “Louisiana Academic Freedom Act” declares its [...]
NCSE: Expelled Exposed
April 1, 2008 – 10:38 am
Keep checking this space for the National Center for Science Education’s official response to the Ben Stein movie Expelled; for now, we hope you will find this collection of resources helpful.
“Ben Stein is the Rosa Parks of Darwin Skeptics”
March 30, 2008 – 9:21 am
Proponents of “Intelligent Design” continue trying to portray their efforts as a struggle for civil rights, as in this amusing post touting Ben Stein as “the Rosa Parks of Darwin Skeptics.”
Science education wins in TX primaries
March 7, 2008 – 2:37 pm
In the March 4 Texas primary contest, where Huckabee’s campaign might have benefited anti-evolution challengers for the state board of education, those challengers were defeated by the (pro-science) incumbents:
Time Mag: Huckabee, Texas, Evolution
March 1, 2008 – 6:15 pm
The potential Huckabee effect on teaching evolution is now getting the attention I was calling for in an earlier post here. As reported now by Time Magazine,
evolution in Corpus Christi seat on TX state Bd of Ed
February 26, 2008 – 5:29 pm
The Corpus Christie area Caller-Times reports on how the teaching of evolution may be affected by the GOP primaries next week.When asked “How do you think the Texas school system will be influenced by the debate between creationism and evolution?“
Schönborn & Ratzinger on Evolution, Creation, and “Intelligent Design”
February 25, 2008 – 1:04 am
This program will be re-run this weekend:
Upcoming Schedule
Sunday, April 13, at 9:30 AM EDT
Sunday, April 13, at 2:00 PM EDT
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This weekend I heard the talk by Christoph Cardinal Schönborn at Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, California, given February 15, 2008, and aired this weekend on CSpan2/BookTV (where it might be re-aired in [...]
Wired: Evolution Wins as Creationists (Accidentally) Switch Sides in Florida
February 20, 2008 – 4:38 pm
On the Wired blog, Brandon Keim reports:
The Florida Board of Education officially upheld evolution yesterday.
The board didn’t quite mean to do that, of course. In a 4-3 vote, the Board accepted a proposed curriculum that replaced all references to evolution with the phrase “the scientific theory of evolution.” In so doing, the board inadvertently made [...]
intelligent exaptation
February 18, 2008 – 6:51 pm
At The Hive of Lost Memories, a post on “the evolution of grocery bags” provides a superb example of exaptation, from outside the realm of biological evolution:
Plastic or paper? I first heard of the question after a couple of days of my arrival to the United States when I was out with my brother [...]
eclipsed evolution vote in Texas
February 18, 2008 – 4:42 pm
Turnout for Huckabee, who supports Chuck Norris in promoting use of the Bible as a textbook in the public schools, could have an impact on State School Board elections that most of us outside of Texas don’t even know about.
more on Expelled
February 9, 2008 – 9:41 pm
For anybody interested in the source, it’s in Augustine’s book The literal meaning of Genesis (where Augustine explains that Genesis does not literally mean what “literal” Creationsists claim that it means).
more info on TX, FL evolution & science standards
January 19, 2008 – 6:30 pm
An article on ars technica (”New Florida state standards spark nonscientific backlash“) includes several links to helpful sources for keeping up on developments in Florida.
An overview on the Texas standards developments can be found in two articles at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Evolution’s status may be debated by state board, and Proponents want `intelligent [...]
Ben Stein — EXPELLED
January 18, 2008 – 8:11 pm
Judging from the website, we can expect this movie to be an extraordinary example of the propaganda technique known as the Big Lie. The movie apparently hammers away at a few claims of monstrous misdeeds by the “neo-Darwinists,” with one fabricated example after another.
Texas decision on creationist masters degree postponed
January 16, 2008 – 1:38 pm
What is at stake here is not only whether this Creationist program will confer graduate degrees sanctioned by the State of Texas, but whether Texas will be interpreting its approval criteria in such a way that Texas accreditation can no longer serve as a basis for Science Teacher credentials, or for the NCLB requirement for a teacher in every classroom who is “Highly Qualified” in the specific subject they are teaching.
Creationist degree for science teachers: Trouble for Texas under NCLB?
January 12, 2008 – 9:43 pm
Would Texas state approval of the creationists’ masters degree program in “Science Education” jeopardize its satisfaction of the NCLB requirement for a “Highly Qualified Teacher” in every classroom, and its reciprocity arrangements for teacher qualification in other states?
