Category: Science
Approved for Use in Texas Schools, Ken Miller’s Textbook Uses Galápagos Finches to Overstate the Case for Evolution
As I have shown in this series, Texas students, and others across the country, deserve better.
At Why Evolution Is True, Jerry Coyne Promotes an Intelligent Design Documentary
Well, good for him. Unwittingly, he shares with his readers a clip that is among the many spectacular sequences in Flight: The Genius of Birds.
A Reader Asks: What Did I Mean by "Rarefied Design"?
The concept of rarefied design is useful shorthand for the kind of design in nature that David Hume ostensibly discredited in his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
Miller’s Biology Textbook on Gradualism vs. Punctuated Equilibrium and the Scope of the Cambrian Explosion
Adopted for use in Texas, the Pearson textbook omits the single most important fact about the scope of the explosion of diversity in the Cambrian.
It’s Midnight: Nominations for Censor of the Year Are Now CLOSED!
Thank you for your nominations — including the silly ones. The staff of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture will be considering carefully.