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Entries Tagged as 'Evolution'

Wikipedia, ID-creationism, and “banned books”

September 28th, 2006 · No Comments

How to stop insertion of ID-creationist bias into Wikipedia articles. Also links, including a Casey Luskin post complaining about an anti-ID bias in the science articles (!)

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Tags: Evolution · blog · media

UK anti-evolutionists seek to lure parents with new website

September 25th, 2006 · No Comments

see http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_060925evolut.shtml

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six literal days

September 19th, 2006 · No Comments

Can somebody help me understand what this could mean? What is a literal “day,” or a literal “hour,” before the sun exists? It’s fine with me if they want construe “day” in some way other than the time it takes for earth to rotate on its axis, but in that case what do they mean by “literal”?

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Demand for elimination of evolution references from Leakey collections (!)

September 18th, 2006 · No Comments

Religious critics of evolution have trained their sights on one of the world’s pre-eminent fossil exhibits — Louis and Richard Leakey’s extensive skeletal collections illuminating the origins of man.

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Wells’s Promiscuously Incorrect Guide as High-Stakes Test for science education

September 15th, 2006 · No Comments

Does Wells’s Promiscuously Incorrect Guide give us a vehicle for considering, and improving, the quality of science education for the population of non-scientists?

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Tags: Evolution · Standards & Testing · blog

Teach the controversies — YES ! Critical thinking — YES!

September 12th, 2006 · No Comments

Teach the controversies, YES!, but with the essential proviso that the questions with which students will be critically engaged must be the REAL QUESTIONS and REAL CONTROVERSIES in the subjects they are studying.

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Tags: Evolution · blog