Discovery Institute: Indiana Bill “Bad Science and Bad Education”
A press release that just came from the Discovery Institute: Indianapolis – A bill approved today by the Indiana Senate to allow the teaching of creationism...
February 1, 2012
“What Is Pseudoscience?: Scientific American”
So far so good from Michael Shermer, writing at Scientific American, as he quotes Michael D. Gordin in an excellent, pithy analysis: “individual scientists (as distinct...
September 18, 2011
SciAm Endorses Teaching the Controversy?
Could this be? Looks like John Rennie, who until recently was the long-time Editor-in-Chief of Scientific American, thinks it’s a good idea to teach the controversy! The...
January 28, 2011
More evidence for miscommunication
Thank you, Larry Fafarman, for answering this, written by Nick Matzke at Panda’s Thumb: Just last week over at the Thinking Christian blog there was a...
October 30, 2009
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Commenter John on one of the recent Intelligent Design threads said that science never interprets results after bringing them in. I think there’s truth in that...
October 19, 2009
Who Defines ID?
In my earlier post this morning I covered definitions of creationism quite thoroughly but I didn’t include a definition of Intelligent Design. There was one in...
October 16, 2009
“ID Creationism:” The Communication Question
Cameron said this morning, in the thread, “Maybe They Really Can’t Tell the Difference,” The relevant purpose here, per the OP, is to determine if ID...
October 16, 2009
ID and Creationism: Learning As I Go
A few days I posed a tentative question, wondering whether some of those who do not distinguish Intelligent Design from creationism may be exhibiting a kind...
October 14, 2009
Questions For Those Who Believe ID Is Creationism
Yesterday in the thread on ID and creationism, a commenter using the handle “Wheels” pointed out, The starting point [for both ID and creationism] is with...
October 13, 2009
