Category Archives: Education
The Family a.k.a. the Christian mafia
Has anyone else been slightly blown away by the recent revelations about “The Family”, another secret organization for the wealthy and powerful White cabal in D.C.?
Just when we thought “Good old boy” clubs had become passé, just when we thought we’d seen the last of former Skull and Bones members holding positions of power and [...]
“Evolution is just a theory”
Image by Colin Purrington via Flickr
Every time I encounter that sentiment, and that happens all too frequently, I cringe.
Theory as used by science means something quite different than our common, every day usage. It pains me when someone tries to denounce something without having bothered to learn something about the topic. I don’t ignorantly attempt [...]
Anti-Intellectualism Is Destroying America
From Alternet.org:
“It’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant.” Barack Obama finally said it.
Though a successful political and electoral strategy, the Right’s stand against intelligence has steered them far off course, leaving them — and us — unable to deal successfully with the complex and dynamic circumstances we face as a nation and a [...]
Swedish government – it’s illegal for schools to teach religious doctrine as if it were true.
Courtesy of The Guardian:
The Swedish government has announced plans to clamp down hard on religious education. It will soon become illegal even for private faith schools to teach religious doctrines as if they were true. In an interesting twist on the American experience, prayer will remain legal in schools – after all, it has no [...]
God damned orange eaters
Bigfoot Duo’s New Discovery: A Lawsuit Against Them
The two goons who wasted the world’s time by claiming they’d found Bigfoot are now finding themselves on the receiving end of a lawsuit.
Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer went the full nine yards with a news conference, DNA tests (that showed nothing), and all sorts of empty [...]
Mysteries of time, and the multiverse
A rather thought-provoking article in the L.A. Times:
Caltech physicist Sean M. Carroll has been wrestling with the mystery of time. Most physical laws work equally well going backward or forward, yet time flows only in one direction. Writing in this month’s Scientific American, Carroll suggests that entropy, the tendency of physical systems to become more [...]
George Carlin: A wake-up call
No one can say it more clearly, more plainly, more concisely than Carlin.
Ben Stein Wins Money from Intelligent Design Community
My appreciation for the absurd has been taxed to the limit with the following press release;
Ben Stein, known for his lead role in the film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and his Comedy Central show Win Ben Stein’s Money, believes in liberty and truth. In recognition of this, Biola University’s masters in science and religion program [...]
2008 National High School Essay Contest
From Alliance for Science:
2008 National High School Essay Contest
For our second annual National High School Essay Contest we invite students to submit essays of not more than 1,000 words on one of two topics — “Climate and Evolution” or “Agriculture and Evolution.”
Submission deadline is February 29, 2008.
Student prizes start with $300 for first place, and [...]
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