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The Royal Astronomical Society adds its voice for evolution
The chorus of support for the teaching of evolution continues, with a statement from the Royal Astronomical Society, adopted in 2011. In its statement, the society expresses (PDF) its support for "the teaching of evolution, geophysics, astronomy and other scientific theories in school…
Just What America Needs: Another Creationist “Museum”
Stunning! Interactive! Engaging! Creationist! That’s how the Institute for Creation Research might describe a new facility it proposes to build near its headquarters in Dallas. The prospective Dallas Museum of Science and Earth History” would be the “culmination of decades of study and research”…
Was 2015 the Wildest Year Yet?
Every December I cross the San Francisco Bay to head into the “big city” to go to the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting. If you haven’t been to the meeting before, it is one of the largest scientific conferences in the country. Several tens of thousands of people come from around the…
A Marriage Made in Heaven
Wedding bells are ringing in Seattle, Washington, and Richardson, Texas: the Discovery Institute and the Foundation for Thought and Ethics are getting hitched! They’ve had a long and surprisingly secretive courtship, but we at NCSE are glad to see these crazy kids doing the honest thing. The…
Say What? A Bizarre and Potentially Harmful Exchange on Science Friday, Part 2
In part 1 of this post, I recounted how in the middle of a moment of domestic bliss (doing dishes) I was brought up short by an exchange on Science Friday. Columbia University neuroscientist Stuart Firestein was chatting with host Ira Flatow about his new book, Failure: Why Science is…
“Not Proved and Not Provable”
I have just weighed my copy of William A. Williams’s The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved (1925) on the postal scale in the NCSE office, and it weighs 6.7 ounces. For such a slight volume, it is awfully ambitious. According to the title page, it is designed “(1) As an up-to-…
Say What? A Bizarre and Potentially Harmful Exchange on Science Friday, Part 1
Do you see it, readers? The steam pouring out of my ears? Picture this. It’s last Sunday night. I’m doing dishes and listening to some podcasts, scrubbing away not exactly merrily, but efficiently and contentedly, when I heard this: “I happen to believe that we should teach ‛intelligent design…
Answer Monday
Those were the teeth, by gum, of Parahippus cognatus, a Miocene ancestor of the modern horse. And they’re especially interesting because Parahippus and its descendants were grazers, rather than browsers, specializing in eating grasses. Do you see that in the teeth with their…
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