Comments on: Creationism, Evolution, Education–and Politics

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:09:35 +0000

“How winter disproves evolution”

I MUST know more.

By: datadiary

datadiary — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:48:48 +0000

Creationism, Evolution, Education–and Politics all are interrupting each other in every factors.
If we want something pure and creative from our system so we need to differ politics from the education system and encourage the students the way they use their mind get engaged in creativity.

By: SLC

SLC — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:14:30 +0000

Re David @ #4

1. As the Nobel Prize winning biochemist J. B. S. Haldane responded to an overeager Popperian when asked what evidence would falsify evolution, he responded a fossil cat in the Pre-Cambrian strata. Needless to say, the said fossil cat has yet to be found.

2. Just before the Dover trial, scientists decoding the chimpanzee genome found the following. I’ll let Prof. Ken Miller describe what happened.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi8FfMBYCkk

By: David

David — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:00:24 +0000

The article, Life is Complicated (1 April 2010, Nature) can now be accessed at:

http://www.lbl.gov/LBL-Programs/lifesciences/BissellLab/articles/2010-04-01_Nature%20News%20Feature%20Human%20Genome%20At%2010.pdf

By: David

David — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:58:10 +0000

The article, Life is Complicated (1 April 2010, Nature) can now be accessed at:

http://www.lbl.gov/LBL-Programs/lifesciences/BissellLab/articles/2010-04-01_Nature%20News%20Feature%20Human%20Genome%20At%2010.pdf

By: David

David — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:24:03 +0000

In her April 17/11 talk in Scottsdale, AZ, Eugenie Scott said:

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“There is no evidence against evolution. There is no evidence against the idea that livings things shared common ancestry. All of the evidence that we have from biogeography, from comparative anatomy, from genetics, from the fossil record, from any number of different sources, that all is very compatible and pointing very clearly to the inference that living things had common ancestors. Nothing out there is running a big neon light saying, ‘Whoa! Evolution fails here! We have to toss it out!’
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So what evidence would convince Eugenie (or any other evolutionist) that vertical evolution (information-building evolution) is false?

By: Dean

Dean — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:27:31 +0000

I had to reprogram my receiver yesterday after our power came back. One of the radio stations that flashed on is a local fundie station. They were starting their “science lesson”. No crap, it was “How winter disproves evolution, the big bang, and proves the Earth is 3500 years old. ”
I did not listen. You can’t overestimate the crazy.

By: StevoR

StevoR — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:35:03 +0000

How much does politics affect teaching evolution?

Too much! An awful lot. In some places and classes.

By: David

David — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 05:46:22 +0000

Eugenie Scott’s name comes up in this 2009 interview with Kevin Anderson

http://kgov.com/bel/20090911

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100331/pdf/464664a.pdf

Evolution: The Creation Myth of Our Culture
http://www.trueorigin.org/evomyth01.asp