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Intelligent Design

Evolution is not that important

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Praj / 2 Comments

As I slowly make my way back into blogging after an extended break, it’s nice (and a bit annoying!) to see more prominent bloggers echo arguments I’...

Intelligent Design

Worst. Analogy. Ever

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Praj / 5 Comments

I’m all for activism and outreach, but what does this quote mean: “Teaching science without evolution is like teaching sentence structure without th...

Climate Change/Intelligent Design/Society

Politicians’ scientific beliefs, indicators, and cultural markers

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Praj / 3 Comments

Liberal bloggers have been attacking National Review’s Kevin Williamson for arguing politicians’ scientific beliefs don’t matter: Why would an...

Intelligent Design/Philosophy/Public Discourse

Belated response to the politics of demarcation

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Praj / 0 Comment

It has been two months (an eternity in blogging years) since Paul Newall and Michael Pearl insisted that the issue of teaching intelligent design in schools sho...

Education/Intelligent Design/Literacy

Why do we teach science?

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Praj / 2 Comments

The Lt. makes an important point I’ve been meaning to address in his response to my suggestion that much of biology can be taught without the theory of ev...

Expertise/Intelligent Design

Diversity in science and creationism in schools

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Praj / 0 Comment

I’m busy this week preparing for the AAAS Annual Meeting and specifically this panel. I convened this panel to try spark a debate on how we should think a...

Intelligent Design

The dangers of creationism

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Praj / 3 Comments

To continue with creationism, here’s Michael Pearl: It is one thing to reject Creationism and ID; it is another thing to have good reasons for rejecting C...

Intelligent Design/Race/Religion

Creationists aren’t the same as Holocaust deniers

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Praj / 3 Comments

In a typically eloquent post on trying to understand those whose beliefs we deem abhorrent, Ta-Nehisi Coates takes an unnecessary swipe at creationists:  “...

Intelligent Design/Philosophy/Public Discourse

Demarcation happens anyway

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Praj / 8 Comments

It is generally acknowledged that attempts to demarcate science from non- or pseudoscience, based on a priori standards, have failed. —Paul Newall Newall ...

Intelligent Design

A question of evidence

Posted on February 6, 2010 by Praj / 1 Comment

This is my last post on intelligent design (ID) for a while.  But I want to examine the evidentiary claims surrounding the debate.  I’m not talking about the ev...

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