Tag: curriculum
Evolution Education — A Debater’s Perspective
William Butler Yeats noted, “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
Shock: Florida Laws Would Give Floridians a Say on Science Education
Nature listens to the National Center for Science Education, promoting fears of “flat-Earthers.”
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.
Now for a Film about Yoko Ono, Would-Be Censor
There are several good news stories on the recent development in the federal court case in which Yoko Ono seeks to prevent further distribution of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, the Ben Stein film. And then there is this one from ars technica: Notice the way the writer feels obliged to abuse free speech–by misrepresenting intelligent […]
Uniting the Sciences and Humanities
There is an interesting new education project under construction at Binghamton University. According to The New York Times: Yet a few scholars of thick dermis and pep-rally vigor believe that the cultural chasm can be bridged and the sciences and the humanities united into a powerful new discipline that would apply the strengths of both […]