Tag: U.S. National Academy of Sciences
Nature Article Admits Unanswered Origin-of-Life Questions, Exposing Broken Promises of ID Critics
In 2016, physicist Lawrence Krauss promised, “We’re coming very close” to explaining the origin of life via chemical evolutionary models.
NCSE Underreports Teachers Who Support Intelligent Design
The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) is a non-profit group that has one primary mission: to censor minority scientific viewpoints on hot-button issues like evolution.
Bring “Visible Thinking” to Evolution Education
This work reminds me strongly of the Center for Science & Culture’s emphasis on analysis, evaluation, and examining the evidence in public school evolution education.
Science Education and the Growth Mindset
Growth mindset is an idea popularized by Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck.
Why the Design in Living Things Goes Far Beyond Machinery
French philosopher René Descartes conceived of living things as complex machines, a concept now known as the “machine metaphor.”