SCIENCE EDUCATION
Casualties in the New Science Wars: The Nation’s Children
The convergence of interests of evolution and climate change deniers signals a new chapter in the politicization of science.
SCIENCE, CULTURED
Great Scott
It’s about time everyone is celebrating Eugenie C. Scott of the National Center for Science Education—she is, after all, perhaps the leading day-to-day defender of science in America.
Weiss On Darwin’s Methods
In today’s Washington Post, Senior Fellow Rick Weiss looks to Charles Darwin’s own life experience to cool tensions between science and religion: Darwin’s humility in the face of insufficient evidence — his willingness to say “I don’t know” — is [...]
SCIENCE AND CULTURE
Darwin’s Dangerous Descendant
Screenwriter Matthew Chapman, the great-great grandson of the great great scientist, reflects upon science, politics, and culture 200 years after Darwin’s birth.
SCIENCE AND CULTURE
Darwin Day: A Celebration of Science, Not Conflict
Historical research on the relationship between science and religion reveals a story very different from common tales of discord.
SCIENCE, CULTURED
A New Day, and a New Tone
Divisiveness and the lack of shared purpose have been too common surrounding science issues. It’s time for a change.
EVOLUTION
Not a Flock of Dodos
The battle over teaching evolution is still far from won in this country, despite the overwhelming mass of scientific evidence that supports this model of how the biological universe works.
CLIMATE
We Are Living In a Carbon World
Carbon fuels evolutionary systems and climate change—and the story of this element cuts across a wide swath of scientific fields, underscoring much of the research that’s changing the way we think about everyday life.
Evolution and God Not Mutually Exclusive
The Science Times section in the NYT today has a short profile on Francisco J. Ayala, author of Darwin’s Gift to Science and Religion. Dr. Ayala is an evolutionary biologist and geneticist at the University of California, Irvine. He spends much of his time lecturing on evolution and its compatibility with belief in God.
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