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Chaffee, Sewell: “Evolution — More Certain Than Gravity?”

“Imagine two science teachers. Mr. Smith expects students simply to memorize and correctly regurgitate.” Read More ›
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Human Exceptionalism Explains the Longing for a “Human Touch”

No doubt evolutionary psychologists could a tell a story to explain this. They always can. Something about tribes of hunter-gatherers. Read More ›
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Here, Evidently, Is How They Teach Evolution at Louisiana State University

This has got to be one of the dopiest, most simple-minded presentations of the subject that I’ve seen. Read More ›
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Louisiana Science Education Act Celebrates Its Tenth Anniversary

The LSEA demonstrates that we don’t have to teach evolution dogmatically in public schools. Read More ›
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An Open Door — Reasons for Hope on Academic Freedom?

As Sarah Chaffee points out, the new Free Science website is an outstanding new resource. Read More ›
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ID Education Day Comes to Dallas, March 23!

It’s an excellent way to supplement what students are learning about the scientific evidence on biological and cosmic origins. Read More ›
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But Why Do Biology Textbooks Retain Discredited Evolutionary Icons?

The “experts” who swoop in to assure schools that their textbooks are in no need of fixing present a psychological puzzle. Read More ›

Email from Atheist Public School Teacher Exposes Hypocrisy, Inconsistencies in Darwin Lobby's Legal Reasoning

If you're including materialistic ideology alongside the teaching of evolution, this could have the effect of establishing atheism. And multiple courts have found atheism is a religion. Read More ›

How the Science Teachers’ Lobby Keeps Its Constituents in the Dark on Evolution

One of the most powerful education organizations in the country is the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), which stands alongside the rest of the Darwin lobby in holding that neo-Darwinian evolution should be taught in a one-sided, pro-evolution-only fashion. This is an extreme position, as it seeks to ban scientific criticisms of evolution. Due to its exclusive and dogmatic nature, the NSTA’s position is analogous to the extreme position advocated by some religious fundamentalists who would seek to ban teaching about evolution in public schools. But the Darwin lobby is smart. While it is trying to ban and censor the views of its opponents, the Darwin lobby has a particular narrative which tries to paint its opponents as the censors Read More ›

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