Science Is Constantly Evolving
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Call me a sybarite if you must, a crazed party animal, but I spent the evening of New Year’s Eve 2013 watching Steven Spielberg’s film Lincoln (2012), which I missed when it was in the theaters. I enjoyed it quite a lot, especially because a large portion of my leisure reading over the…
All mankind is of one author and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language, and every chapter must be so translated…God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library…
Back in 2007 Oregon science teacher Greg Craven posted a video on YouTube called "The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See" weighing the pros and cons of taking climate change seriously by asking "what's the worst that could happen?" His conclusion: it we don't take the possibility…
As a dog returneth to his vomit, I seem to be returning to, if not my folly, then Michael Behe’s folly. (I was going to try a pun here with “folly” and “falsifiability”—possibly involving “follysifiability”—but it was too much of a strain.) Previously, I was examining Behe’s…
Last time we examined what creationists think about how the rocks of Grand Canyon were formed. Now we’re going to look at the fatal flaws in this creationist model, and why it doesn’t fit with what we see in Grand Canyon. One major flaw is the thickness of the sediment. The flat-lying Paleozoic…
Ann Reid NCSE's incoming executive director Ann Reid began her new job on January 6, 2014, succeeding the outgoing executive director Eugenie C. Scott. "I've been looking forward to today," Reid commented. "I feel privileged to be at the helm of the National Center for Science Education as it…
Last week on Fossil Friday, I asked you to identify a little swimming reptile. What was it? Where was it from? When was it from? So many questions! And there were so many answers! Mesosaurus? Plesiosaurus? Sloth?…
"The Place of Skulls" is the nickname someone has given our new conference room at NCSE, which is otherwise known as the Blue Room on account of its sky-blue walls. The skulls in question are facsimilies of hominid skulls. They decorate the shelves around the room, but on occasion…
Welcome back to Fossil Friday! We had a great run in 2013: some vertebrates, lots of skulls, many formerly squishy things. To start us off for 2014, I thought I'd challenge you with this full skeleton. This fellow was an aquatic vertebrate, about the length of my hand. …