Noteworthy entries.
The journal Evolution: Education and Outreach has posted, online, free, an entire issue on the evolution of the eye. The eye is one of those sticking points in the ongoing debate with antievolutionists. Its complexity, its improbability, its seeming miraculous advent seems to point directly to interventionist manifestation. Admittedly, it…
The story is famous and might be just a bit apocryphal, how Galileo turned his new telescope on the sky and offered to show many important people what he had found. They refused to look, afraid to compromise the world view that bound them to their place and time. Afraid,…
And here's a way to protect yourself from sandwich pirates.
This is one impressive tortoise. Check out his pose during the Boer War around 1900. Fun story.
I spend waste hours each week reading arguments between those who think that science education should be strictly based on science, versus those who think that alternate views (usually Biblical) should be taught along side. This is a skit about a father outraged at the amoral and unlikely (scientific) theory…