Category: Education
Listen: “You Really Shouldn’t Be Presenting Intelligent Design in Public Schools”
So says Center for Science & Culture Associate Director John West in reply to an educator’s question.
Curricula on Intelligent Design Are Urgently Needed — And Here They Are!
My own journey to learning about intelligent design began in high school.
In Science Education, Academic Freedom Makes Progress Across America
Sarah Chaffee spoke to AF proponents in Alabama, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Schools Don’t Teach Evolution Dogmatically Because They’re…Underfunded?
National Center for Science Education links evolution “avoidance” with “inadequate supplies, inadequate support, hungry students.”
State Action on Science Education: 2017 in a Nutshell
All this represents movement toward the ultimate goal: the best science education for public school students around the country.
Euthanasia Reveals Atheism’s Moral Confusion
Jerry Coyne is surprised at the outrage that atheist ethicist Peter Singer has received for advocacy of infant euthanasia.
On Controversial Science, Skepticism Is Now “Social Deviance,” Skeptics Are “Weeds”
Our friend and contributor Denyse O’Leary has a sensitive ear.
Dembski and Wells’s The Design of Life: Advanced Online Curriculum Available Now!
Delve into the data surrounding the origin of life, specified and irreducible complexity, genetics, the fossil record, human origins, natural selection, and more.
Evolution Out of the Curriculum? If So, a Bad Idea from Turkey
The fact that evolution is both important and “controversial” is one reason we strongly favor teaching it thoroughly in high school biology classes.
CNN: National Center for Science Education “Promotes Science Over Ideology”; What!?
A CNN story laments that some teachers and students are skeptical of climate change.