“Will you teach me something that is college-level?” my ambitious and competetive soon-to-be third grader requested.
I was reading the Sunday paper so I tried to do a little dodging. “You have to learn all the elementary stuff before you learn the college stuff. That’s why we go to elementary school first.” Then [...]
We’ve talked before about how the U.S. needs to have a major overhaul in science education. The overall lack of understanding of how science works is detrimental to future progress.
Richard Dawkins had an interesting idea for combatting this. In a lecture called, Science, Delusion And The Appetite For Wonder, he cited a clarinet [...]
Here is a newsletter (and donation request) I received from the president of the non-profit organization, Darwin Day Celebration:
Dear Noell Hyman,
First let me thank all of you for providing your names or e-mails as supporters of Darwin Day — the Celebration of Science and Humanity. If there is anything our nation currently needs, it [...]
I got two evolution-related newsletters this week that I thought many of you would be interested in. I’ll post them in two different entries so you can discuss each one if you would like to.
This first one is regarding the encroachment of religion into science education in the name of Intelligent Design. Remember [...]
The following article is out of season. It is a new version (about 90% new) of a previous entry I wrote last February. I rewrote it for submission to ClubMom and decided to post it here, since it contains new information. It is a good reminder that there are important things to [...]
I cannot wait to read this new book, which Panda’s Thumb brought to my attention:
INTELLIGENT THOUGHT: SCIENCE VERSUS THE INTELLIGENT DESIGN MOVEMENT is a compilation of articles by some of our favorite scientists.
In the Editor’s Note is a copy of an email he received which should be “a stark reminder of why this [...]
What do mainstream Christians despise almost as much as atheism? Paganism. What if we could characterize creationism as paganistic?
Well, it’s not dear little ME making this connection. It is the Vatican’s astronomer!
The Northstate Science blog led me to this one. According to a news article in Scostman.com, this is [...]
The fun never stops! AgnosticMom reader, Olga, sent me this article. What makes this latest finding so significant has to do with location.
The species anamensis is not new, but its location is what helps explain the shift from one early phase of human-like development to the next, scientists say. All eight [...]
Right now, at this very moment, my kids are watching a movie based on the Skydancer toys. I just heard one character proclaim, after making an observation:
“The only scientific explanation for it is, Magic Does Exist! And if it does, then I believe in Magic!”
The character’s faith statement then released her into the [...]
There has been a lot of news recently on topics that affect us. I have been short on blogging time the last few days, so I am posting a small amount of information regarding a couple of the articles (this post and the previous post). I am giving all you readers the go-ahead [...]
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