Scientific American usually does a great job — but today, I suspect their reporters weren’t listening very closely when they wrote this post: “Texas vote moves evolution to the top of the class.”
I listened this afternoon to the Texas Board of Education as its members revised the state’s science teaching standards, and it sounded to me [...]
“And that’s a shame, because we need the gentleness of the people who seek to emulate Jesus’ love as we try to be stewards of this exquisite global creation.”
Well, I came back to delete this post 19 hours after writing it, realizing I had fallen into exactly the sort of oppositional mire between Creation and evolution that I think should not exist (see Day 5). Thanks for stopping by, though. I hope you check out some of the other science posts while you’re [...]
The comment arrived on Day 2 of my 100-day effort, and I now regret getting so angry that I deleted it. My friend, posing as an anonymous reader, quoted my own line: “The scientific process is robust; its only weakness is human error,” and wrote:
“Yikes, what if we humans erred right at the beginning, in our [...]
I love to write. And I love science. But so far, my attempt to combine these things in a style fitting for the modern age — by maintaining a blog — has been spotty. So I hereby challenge myself: 100 posts about science in 100 days, promoted as much as possible through other modern channels [...]
