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Speaker addresses threats to teaching evolution in public schoolsGlenn Branch, deputy director for the National Center for Science Education, will speak from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, May 23, in 2205 Haring Hall at UCD.
topix.net | 17-May-2012 00:37
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MC Machinery Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corp., recently unveiled its completely revamped wire EDM line, featuring the revolutionary Cylindrical Drive Technology, offering a simple, but intelligent design concept.
topix.net | 16-May-2012 20:22
All 15 State Board of Education seats up for grabs
Next year, a debate as old as Darwin could be revived in Texas. The State Board of Education is scheduled to review science materials in summer 2013, when Amarillo attorney Marty Rowley, Amarillo Independent School District board president Anette Carlisle and a handful of other contenders for seats on the panel hope to stir anew efforts to kindle ... (more)
topix.net | 16-May-2012 18:12
Intelligent Design at the University Club
Stephen Meyer, the director of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, spoke the other evening at a forum called "Socrates in the City." Normally it's in New York City, but tonight it was at the University Club in Washington, D.C. The founder, Eric Metaxas, gave a great introduction.
topix.net | 16-May-2012 13:07
School board files response to Freshwater memorandum
Attorneys acting on behalf of the Mount Vernon City school board on Friday submitted a response to John Freshwater's memorandum to the Supreme Court of Ohio.
topix.net | 15-May-2012 19:09
Intelligent Design
Biologists will tell you that evolution is never complete, and that it has no necessary direction; it is neither good nor bad, just something that happens.
topix.net | 15-May-2012 07:45
Creation versus evolution debate
On Saturday May 12, the Museum of Creation and Earth History in Santee, Calif. held a debate featuring Creation vs.
topix.net | 15-May-2012 00:33
Letter: Bill has flaw for creationists
While back in Knoxville, I've been considering some of the possible unintended consequences of the so-called "monkey bill." State Rep.
topix.net | 12-May-2012 10:16
A new treat in Stockholm
Ett Hem combines the best elements of a smart country inn with the intimacy and intelligent design of a 'ryokan' Today marks day six of a two-week world tour that's so far touched down in Stockholm, Helsinki and Tokyo and will carry on to Tokyo again followed by Hong Kong, Singapore, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
topix.net | 11-May-2012 23:43
Dembski and Falk: Is Darwin Theologically Neutral? Falk's position
There has recently been an exchange of views between some Southern Baptist theologians, and members of the BioLogos Foundation, on the question posed by the title.
topix.net | 11-May-2012 10:14
The KKK and Evolution in Virginia
During the summer of 1925, the Scopes trial in Dayton, Tennessee , made the teaching of evolution in public schools a hot-button issue across the South.
topix.net | 11-May-2012 00:50
UAB gets evolution pork grant
Robert W. Thacker of the University of Alabama at Birmingham received a $499,999 grant from the National Science Foundation to create visual work flow software that "summarizes the evolutionary relationships of living organisms" with the goal of extensive educational outreach to classrooms and museums.
topix.net | 10-May-2012 17:30
The Guinea Worm - Atheist Propaganda
The Guinea Worm- Atheist Propaganda The intelligent design issue has sent atheists scurrying to try to find examples of bad design in the creation.
topix.net | 10-May-2012 10:16
Patrick J. Michaels: Guilt by Association
It is the "some-all fallacy" writ large. "Some" climate scientists who happen to believe in intelligent design, a variant of creationism, also question the high-sensitivity climate model.
topix.net | 09-May-2012 11:13
David Moshman: Should Creationist Teachers Have Academic Freedom?
Tennessee is now the second state, after Louisiana, to pass a law protecting the academic freedom of teachers in public elementary and secondary education.
topix.net | 08-May-2012 23:50
Battery-Free Bosavi LED Headlamp Recharges Via USB
Two years ago rock climber Dan Freschl quit his job as a battery engineer and set to work designing an environmentally friendly headlamp that didn't rely on AAA batteries to function.
topix.net | 08-May-2012 02:42
Dembski and Falk: Is Darwinism Theologically Neutral?
The BioLogos forum has posted a position paper from William Dembski , on the subject of whether or not Darwinism is theologically neutral as well as a response to Dembski from Darrel Falk .
topix.net | 07-May-2012 15:18
The Purpose Of The Intelligent Designer
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topix.net | 07-May-2012 11:08
The Lights of Perverted Science
But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.- Winston Churchill Albert Einstein wrote about the application of his famous Theory of Relativity in his ... (more)
topix.net | 07-May-2012 06:54
Commentary: Evolutionary monkey laws
Evolution has been voted down in the Tennessee legislature. School kids there need not be bothered by confusing allusions to homo erectus, homo ergaster, homo antecessor, homo heidelbergensis, homo neanderthalensis and other ancestral contradictions to that Old Time Religion.
topix.net | 06-May-2012 14:30
If Conservatives Are Social Darwinists, Then...
That President Obama certainly has a way with words. The other day he called Paul Ryan's House-passed budget "thinly veiled social Darwinism." Does he mean that Ryan's budget is wearing a burqa? Anyway, he prompted Catholic Rep.
topix.net | 06-May-2012 10:16
Charles C. Haynes: Tennessee's science law: academic freedom or monkey business?
Depending on whose press release you believe, Tennessee's new science law either promotes "academic freedom" or "allows creationism to be taught in public schools." Enacted on April 10, the legislation instructs school officials not to prohibit teachers from informing students about the "scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses" of ... (more)
topix.net | 06-May-2012 09:16
VoksLyte to Officially Debut at LIGHTFAIRA International
New Luminaire Collection features intelligent design, innovative technology and customization.
topix.net | 04-May-2012 22:35
Marc Jacobs: Intelligent Design
Marc Jacobs was not perhaps a natural choice to become Louis Vuitton's artistic director when he took over responsibility for the French luxury brand's small leather goods and its ready-to-wear line - the first in its then 143-year history - in 1997.
topix.net | 04-May-2012 01:42
More on teaching creationism
Looking over the comments that follow my Monday Bleader post on the teaching of evolution and creationism in Tennessee, I see some readers objecting to the idea that creationism be taught as a science.
topix.net | 01-May-2012 21:56
Local Dentist, Former Education Board Chair, in New Documentary
Because of his efforts to alter curriculum standards -- including his push to eliminate the teaching of evolution -- he became beloved by some and reviled by others.
topix.net | 01-May-2012 06:28
Fighting evolution one monkey law at a time
Evolution has been voted down in the Tennessee legislature. School kids there need not be bothered by confusing allusions to homo erectus, homo ergaster, homo antecessor, homo heidelbergensis, homo neanderthalensis and other ancestral contradictions to that Old Time Religion.
topix.net | 01-May-2012 01:19
Let's Have No More Monkey Trials
The half-century campaign to eradicate any vestige of religion from public life has run its course.
topix.net | 29-Apr-2012 08:05
Larry Parsons: Snoring, and how we got here
This is an update for anyone wondering about Max, my black-and-tan miniature dachshund.
topix.net | 29-Apr-2012 03:55
Freshwater, Dover, and the Rutherford Institute
I've been rereading "Monkey Girl," Edward Humes' excellent book on the Kitzmiller trial, and ran onto something I'd either missed first time through or forgotten.
topix.net | 28-Apr-2012 02:03
House moves ahead with cybersecurity bill
He rejected the Obama administration's criticism that the measure could lead to invasion of Americans' privacy.
topix.net | 27-Apr-2012 02:20
Those who forget their history are a Casey Luskin
You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that it loses itself early and does not find itself any more.
topix.net | 26-Apr-2012 14:41
More criticism of Jerry Coyne from The Panda's Thumb
The Panda's Thumb is a prominent blog, mostly devoted to attacking the Intelligent Design movement.
topix.net | 26-Apr-2012 10:36
Doubting Darwin: panic in the suites of evolution
The sky is falling! Many interest groups and journalists raced to tell that to the public when a modest but important bill became law in Tennessee early in April.
topix.net | 26-Apr-2012 06:32
Charles C. Haynes: Does new law open way for academic monkey business?
Rise and shine Twin Lakes Area! Wake up, It's Wednesday! has all the info you need to start your... Charles C. Haynes writes the First Amendment column distributed by Gannett News Service.
topix.net | 25-Apr-2012 18:58
Questing and arresting - part 3
Sister Elizabeth Johnson has a chapter in her book Quest for the Living God called "Creator Spirit in the Evolving World." Like the other sisters I have met, she unequivocally embraces and celebrates the scientific story of creation, beginning with the big bang 13.7 billion years ago, up to and including the evolution of life and consciousness by ... (more)
topix.net | 25-Apr-2012 14:48
Don McLeroy, Former Texas Education Board Chair, On The Colbert...
McLeroy, former chair of the Texas Board of Education, is a dentist whose predominant classroom teaching experience is in Sunday School.
topix.net | 25-Apr-2012 00:10
Academic freedom or monkey business?
Depending on whose press release you believe, Tennessee's new science law either promotes "academic freedom" or "allows creationism to be taught in public schools." Enacted April 10, the legislation instructs school officials not to prohibit teachers from informing students about the "scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses" of "scientific ... (more)
topix.net | 23-Apr-2012 17:48
LU symposium discusses range of religions
Panelist Ikbal Chowdhury, left, talks about being one of the many faces of Islam during a discussion about traditions of faith on Thursday at Lincoln University.
topix.net | 20-Apr-2012 21:15
The Panda's Thumb on accomodating evolution and Christianity
The Panda's Thumb is a prominent, and important, blog, authored by many people, mostly scientists.
topix.net | 20-Apr-2012 16:55
Wake County science teacher told to stop teaching about creationism
The Wake County school system has told a middle school science teacher to stop giving assignments about creationism as part of the study of the theory of evolution.
topix.net | 20-Apr-2012 12:45
Tennessee's science law: academic freedom or monkey business?
Depending on whose press release you believe, Tennessee's new science law either promotes "academic freedom" or "allows creationism to be taught in public schools." Enacted on April 10, the legislation instructs school officials not to prohibit teachers from informing students about the "scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses" of ... (more)
topix.net | 20-Apr-2012 08:36
valerie_strauss
This was written by Simon Maloy and published on the Media Matters for America website .
topix.net | 20-Apr-2012 04:26
Smart homes employ intelligent design
Smart-home market growing inA Colorado Springs Imagine you get up to make popcorn and the movie you're watching automatically pauses.
topix.net | 20-Apr-2012 00:17
Science education: Monkey kabuki
DOES a bill that does nothing actually do something? This is not a Zen koan, but a legislative one, being tested this month in Tennessee.
topix.net | 19-Apr-2012 20:07
The varieties of belief
MY COLLEAGUE wrote a characteristically thoughtful post on the non-binarism of scientific and faith-based belief systems.
topix.net | 18-Apr-2012 21:14