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Science Education and America’s Culture Wars

Image by Smithsonian Institution via Flickr I have been invited to give a talk to the San Diego Secular Humanist Outreach (SDSHOUT) group next month on the issue of science and religion in American education. I will be focusing specifically … Continue reading

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Science & Religion in Unscientific America

Cover via Amazon A lot of blogging words have been spilled over Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum’s book Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future, which I have now read. My opinion is that the major criticisms leveled at … Continue reading

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Why I Think that Michael Ruse is a Disaster

Michael Ruse is a philosopher of science and a Darwin scholar who has written voluminously on Darwinism and the Evolution-Creation struggle. A self-proclaimed agnostic and skeptic, Ruse is also known as a strong supporter of reconciliation between science and religion. … Continue reading

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God, the State, & the University – As It Was

I am currently holed up just outside of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, doing some research on the University of North Carolina’s role in opposing an anti-evolution bill that was introduced in the legislature during 1925 (at about the same time … Continue reading

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