I am in the mood to write about earthquakes. I've written about them before, and designed activities for teachers and high school students years ago. I have only experienced three earthquakes (in Columbus, Ohio (1967), San Francisco (1985) and Seattle (2001)). In the...
In science education, the year 2005, 100 years after Einstein's "Annus Mirabilis," had its own miracles, and that was the decision rendered by the Federal Judge, John Jones in the case brought to his court by parents in the Dover, PA school district challenging the...
As I indicated in the previous post on this Blog, Judge John Jones, a federal judge (a Republican, and appointed by George W. Bush, in his first term, not only rejected the teaching of intelligent design in science classes, but rebuked the Dover, PA school board, and...
In what might become a landmark case in the cultural wars in science education, Judge John Jones ruled that teaching "intelligent design" would violate the Constitutional separation of church and state. In this Blog, I have written about this case, and other's that...
A great dialog is going on right now in the midst of the Dover, PA school district's defense of insisting that teachers read a statement in biology classes that upgrades Intelligent Design to the level of Darwin's and Wallace's concept of natural selection and the...
This blog has devoted considerable space to the cultural war that is raging primarily in school districts across the country. The issue is whether creation science, presently disquised as "intelligent design" should be taught along side evolution. Intelligent design...
