Tag: students
Evolutionary Anthropologist’s Advice: Reject Research Papers if Results Come from Discovery Institute Authors
Someone affiliated with Discovery Institute (or any group friendly to ID) submits a paper, and you immediately toss it in the trash without even taking it seriously.
What Law Students Are Learning About Intelligent Design
A law student at the University of Washington recently let us know what the textbook in his education law class has to say about intelligent design.
Back to School to Learn about the “Darwin’s Finches” Icon of Evolution
Jonathan Wells has been vindicated again.
Want a Good Grade in Alison Campbell’s College Biology Course? Don’t Endorse Intelligent Design (Updated)
Why do we need academic freedom legislation like Tennessee’s HB 368? In case biology lecturer Alison Campbell decides to relocate to the United States. Sadly, even if she remains in New Zealand, there are already people here who don’t allow for the free flow of ideas, especially when it comes to discussion of evolution. Biology lecturer Alison Campbell at the University of Waikato in Hillcrest, New Zealand, exemplifies a mindset that is tragically common in academia. She openly boasts that if a student were to use standard ID arguments such as the irreducible complexity of the bacterial flagellum, that student would be “marked down”: If, for example, a student were to use examples such as the bacterial flagellum to advance Read More ›
A Response to Questions from a Biology Teacher: How Do We Test Intelligent Design?
A biology educator recently wrote me asking how we test intelligent design using the scientific method, how ID is falsifiable, and how ID explains patterns we observe in nature. These are very common questions that we receive all the time from teachers, students, and interested members of the public, and they’re usually legitimate, sincere, and thoughtful questions. In this case, they certainly appeared to be such, and below I post a slightly modified version of my response to the teacher, withholding any information about the teacher to protect his/her identity: Dear [Snip], Greetings and thanks for your e-mail. ID is most definitely testable and falsifiable. It uses the scientific method and explains many patterns we observe in nature. Let’s start Read More ›