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 [...]
Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday, coinciding with the 150th anniversary of his famous book “The Origin of Species,” has riveted the science community. It’s fun to read major publications, like the journal Nature, and realize they’ve been planning their stories for ages. Social networks including Twitter and Facebook are abuzz with the celebration. It’s like an Olympic [...]
“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 [...]