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Resources (documents)

Bill Foster’s Letter
The Grubbs and Gibbs Memorandum: Require A Religious Reading of the Evolutionary Record in Public Schools

Education and Public Science: Creationism, Intelligent Design, Home Schooling
The Myers - Rue Debate And Why They Had to Taser Me
The Bible-Thumping Grinch […]

Larry Moran has written a post in which he presents an opposite view of what I stated here. My statements merely echo those of the National Center for Science Education, the US. Supreme Court, and others because I believe that the “Teaching of the Controversy” should not be allowed in public school science classrooms. […]

Please visit my new blog at Scienceblogs.com

The following is an abstract from an article by Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education called “WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE “TEACH THE CONTROVERSY” SLOGAN?” available here.
Teachers are often exhorted by creationists to “teach the controversy.” Although such encouragement sounds on the surface like a […]

According to Randy Moore, who is possibly the nation’s leading expert on law and practice of the Evolution/Creationism struggle:
According to reports from 1,441 undergraduate students at a large, public American university, most high-school biology teachers teach evolution. Approximately 25% of students who attended public schools report that their biology teachers also taught creationism, despite the […]

The Following is a large excerpt from an editorial by Jason Wiles of McGill University and Anila Asghar of Johns Hopkins University, published in the McGill Journal of Education, and introducing a special issue on the teaching of evolution. News of this comes to us from the National Center for Science Education, and the […]

Minnetonka School Board Candidate William Wenmark. His campaign site is here.
Creationist School Board William H. Wenmark up for re-election in Minnetonka. Minnetonkians, please GET OUT THE VOTE!
Minnetonka is a large and sprawling lake, a lovely little town, and a pretty darn good school district west of Minneapolis. But the story […]

A multi-institutional consortium including Duke University has created startlingly crisp 3-D microscopic views of tiny mouse brains — unveiled layer by layer — by extending the capabilities of conventional magnetic resonance imaging.
Story and links here.

The human rights monitoring Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe approved (48-25 vote) a report criticizing creationism, and determining that teaching creationism in schools potentially sacrifices chidlren’s education by imposing religious dogma.Castle, Stephen. “European lawmakers condemn efforts to teach creationism. International Herald Tribune.

European lawmakers condemn efforts to teach creationism
The vote […]

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”Everyone needs to understand the basic facts of evolution as well as the essentials of the scientific method… When people are deprived of a scientific approach to reality as a whole, they are robbed of both a full appreciation of the beauty and richness of the natural world and the means to understand the dynamics […]

Unions. Gotta love them. Were it not for unions it is very possible that your life would suck.
I once worked on an exhibit that was going to be installed in an Industrial Archaeology museum. It was a great exhibit. We were going to have a big pile of bolts […]

This comment by Michael Holloway may have been buried in the comment list (it was sitting in moderation, for unknown reasons, for a while) but I think it’s important and would like to direct people interested in creationism, evolution, and science education to it.

Hey, why not just look it up in Wikipedia? Check it out:
In July of 2003 during her term as education commissioner, Yecke proposed Minnesota Science Standards that included intelligent design in science curriculum. She cited the pro-intelligent design Santorum Amendment as supporting her effort.[2] The versions of the Minnesota Science Standards circulated by Yecke […]

Cherry Yecke was the Commissioner of Education in Minnesota. She was commissioner during the time that the new K-12 education standards were being written. During that time, she and others engaged in a campaign to insinuate “the controversy” into the state science standards.
One of the things they did was to try to pack […]

The National Academies has just released its report on CMMP, a.k.a., Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. This report discusses the state of research and practice in this important area in the US.
CMMP is, essentially, the physics of what most people would call “stuff.” This is not about other galaxies, or about sub-atomic thingies, […]

This from Warrenton, Missouri:
A Wright City Board of Education member’s assertion that Hitler’s success and the shootings at Virginia Tech and Columbine High School were the results of teaching evolution has raised the hackles of several district teachers.
“He indicated that he believes that teachers are responsible for Hitler, Nazi Germany and the death of […]