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Pro-Evolution IV: The Nature of Science
EVOLUTION IV: THE NATURE OF SCIENCE Science is not a simple discovery of truth. It is a human process, a cultural process. There have been scientific “truths” that generations of scientists have...
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Marsden & Gould on Creationist Science
What is science? Andrew Hartman offers a review of some of the keenest analyses of fundamentalist/creationist science at US Intellectual History. Hartman looks at a few essays from the mid-1980s about...
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Truth and Science in Louisiana
What is Truth? The question is as old as Pilate, and still as troublesome. As anti-creationist activist Barbara Forrest notes in a perceptive article in the Louisiana Coalition for Science blog,...
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No More Talk: Popular Science Closes Its Comments
Why can’t we ever have a civilized conversation? That’s the lament we hear all too often when it comes to issues such as evolution or climate change. As science pundit Greg Laden noted recently, a new...
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Faith & Physics, Part I
ILYBYGTH is happy to welcome a new series of guest posts from Anna. Anna blogs about her experiences leaving the fundamentalist subculture at Signs You Are a Sheltered Evangelical. She holds an M.Sc....
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Science and Its Discontents
What keeps Americans from believing in evolution? In climate change? Around here, we focus on principled religious dissent, such as the creationism of ministries such as Answers In Genesis or the...
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Will Creationists Take Half a Loaf?: An Anthropologist’s Response
Guest Post by David Long David Long is an anthropologist and science educator at the Center for Restructuring Education in Science and Technology at George Mason University. He is the author of...
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Montana Tech Faculty: Conservatism YES, Creationism NO
H/T: LMW Can a science-oriented public museum welcome creationists as commencement speakers? No way, says a faculty group at Montana Tech. According to an article by Scott Jaschik in Inside Higher Ed,...
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Can We Tell Students the Truth about Truth?
HT: DL I don’t know what to think. For almost a hundred years, creationists and other conservatives have complained that mainstream science—often symbolized by the idea of evolution—threatened their...
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Does Life Imply Creation? Don McLeroy Says Yes
Should mainstream scientists debate with creationists? This morning we have another chance to discuss the nature of life, science, and evolution with a prominent creationist intellectual. Will anyone...
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