Tag: Texas
Vestigial Arguments About Vestigial Organs Appear in Proposed Texas Teaching Materials
Textbook publishers have resuscitated long-debunked claims that the coccyx, appendix, tonsils, and many other functional organs are “vestigial” — and they propose teaching these myths in the classroom.
Haeckel’s Embryo Drawings Make Cameos in Proposed Texas Instructional Materials
One would have thought the outcry after Icons of Evolution would have been enough to send a message to textbook publishers to stop using these inaccurate drawings as evidence for evolution. But it wasn’t.
Miller-Urey Experiment “Icon of Evolution” Alive and Well in Proposed Texas Instructional Materials
Instructional materials proposed for use in Texas promote classic errors about the 1950s Miller-Urey Experiment and its relevance to the origin of life.
Glaring Bloopers Found in Proposed Texas Science Curricular Materials
Bogus embryo drawings, long-debunked claims about tonsils, and outdated information from a 1950s experiment highlight the glaring bloopers found in proposed science instructional materials for Texas.
Digging Into Granville Sewell’s Peer-Reviewed Paper Challenging Darwinian Evolution
Dr. Sewell is fully aware of the standard objections to the classical version of the second law argument, but his thesis is not the classic unsophisticated version of the argument.