In this month's Scientific American there is a very interesting article written by Glenn Branch & Eugenie C. Scott entitled The Latest Face of Creationism in the Classroom. There are three key ideas in the article, and they highlight the controversies that have...
A friend of mine, on Darwin's birthday (February 12), would dress up in Victorian attire as a young Charles Darwin, enter his high school biology classroom, and announce that he was the "father of evolution." Then, he pulled out his iphone, and i-clicked...
This is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, who was born February 12, 1809, which is the same day that Abraham Lincoln was born. Darwin, according to one of our grandsons, is the "father of evolution," (see yesterday's post). Two recent...
Today I received a voicemail from one of our grandsons (Evan) wondering if I might come and speak to his science class. After leaving a message saying I would be happy to do this, he called back and explained. His middle school science teacher is working with the...
In Kenneth Miller's book, Only a Theory, he talks about the fundamental concept underlying "intelligent design" and goes on to show how the fundamental concept is wrong, and not supported in biological research. The fundamental idea is that there are some aspects of...
The other day I was at my favorite book store, and purchased two books with the following titles. Book 1: Only a Theory by Kenneth R. Miller; and Book 2: Final Theory by Mark Alpert. I wasn't looking for either book. Alpert's book was sitting on the display table...
