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 design–even as he defends it.Read more here at Discovery Blog.
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 mindsets, the quantitative and qualitative, to a wide array of problems. Now, we’re all for combining the sciences with the humanities. Clearly we should be developing well-rounded students. But what I fear is