Category: Education
The Triumphalism of Strickberger’s Evolution
The oversimplification here is staggering (Darwin and women’s rights?!) and would take an entire book to unpack.
NCSE Underreports Teachers Who Support Intelligent Design
The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) is a non-profit group that has one primary mission: to censor minority scientific viewpoints on hot-button issues like evolution.
In Nature, NCSE Downplays Critical Analysis of Evolution
The rosy picture the NCSE paints for advocates of pro-Darwin-only education is not quite accurate.
In the NGSS, a Dogmatic Standard on Evolution
Inaccurate teaching about evolution is widespread, as Jonathan Wells’s review of textbooks shows.
How to Teach Evolution in a Public School — My Experience
What did I do? Well, I introduced the course by holding a lengthy discussion about the difference between science and philosophy.