Science Is Constantly Evolving
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Recently I was contacted by a theologian friend who had been invited to give a talk on creation and evolution in a Catholic parish. Knowing that a prominent member of the parish staff is not friendly to evolution, he asked me what I would say to a Catholic with a master’s degree in science who…
Having observed (in part 1) that there are seven state Republican parties with antievolution planks embedded in their official platforms in 2006 and 2014, I undertook (in part 2) to begin to offer pairwise comparisons between the earlier and the later versions of those planks, along with comments…
I hope everyone had a terrific Memorial Day weekend! This week’s fossil used to be green—but now is quite dark indeed, having been found in coal deposits in the mid-west. So what was this mystery plant? It was a Lepidodendron. From Encyclopedia Britannica: “Lepidodendron…
This week’s Fossil Friday exhibit comes all the way from the coal deposits of the Midwest dating to the Pennsylvanian period. It looks more like a tire print than anything once living! These plants are often referred to as “scale trees” due to the scaly fossils they left behind. Towering at…
The eminent biologist Gerald Edelman died on May 17, 2014, at the age of 84, according to The New York Times (May 22, 2014). In 1972, Edelman and Rodney R. Porter shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies." In…
In America, your opinions do not count unless you are a celebrity. And when celebrities such as Wheel of Fortune’s Pat Sajak tweet about scientific issues, media outlets give these uninformed utterances an inordinate amount of attention. Did you hear on CNN about the paper in this week’s…
NCSE is pleased to announce the next of a new series of on-line workshops aimed at broadening and deepening the networks that make our work possible. The next workshop focuses on debunking and confronting science denial, describing resources and techniques as well as offering a chance to share…
In part 1, I reported that in 2006, there were eight state Republican parties with antievolution planks embedded in their official platforms, and that in 2014, there were again eight such state Republican parties. (In 2006, Oregon’s was among them and North Dakota’s was not; in 2014, North…
In the Gospel According to Saint Mark, when teachers of the law accused Jesus of driving out demons in the name of the devil, he pointed out that this strategy would be ridiculously self-defeating (Mark 3:24-27): If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. If a house is…