Month: June 2011
Glaring Bloopers Found in Proposed Texas Science Curricular Materials
Bogus embryo drawings, long-debunked claims about tonsils, and outdated information from a 1950s experiment highlight the glaring bloopers found in proposed science instructional materials for Texas.
Digging Into Granville Sewell’s Peer-Reviewed Paper Challenging Darwinian Evolution
Dr. Sewell is fully aware of the standard objections to the classical version of the second law argument, but his thesis is not the classic unsophisticated version of the argument.
Tennessee teen schools columnist on evolution and science education
Knoxville News Sentinel journalist is taken to task by a high school student for her dogmatic Darwin only approach to teaching evolution
New Research on Epistatic Interactions Shows “Overwhelmingly Negative” Fitness Costs and Limits to Evolution
According to new research, “even with the continual addition of new beneficial mutations,” negative interactions among mutations will cause fitness to decrease.
The First Law of Darwin Lobbying and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
After a Darwin activist blogger successfully got Granville Sewell’s article pulled from publication, it seems that the first rule of the Darwin lobby is to stifle scientific debate over evolution.