Before the class, Crocker had told me that she was going to teach "the strengths and weaknesses of evolution." Afterward, I asked her whether she was going to discuss the evidence for evolution in another class. She said no.
A "Biology 101" class
turns into a gripe session for creationists at a state school, the Northern Virginia Community College. The lecturer then whines about being discriminated against when she fails to teach the subject she's hired to teach.
posted by orthogonality
on Feb 5, 2006 -
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Are evolution's advocates giving fire to creationists? So says
Michael Ruse, "philosopher of biology (especially Darwinism)", who claims that outspoken evolutionists (e.g.
Richard Dawkins) should do more to make evolution compatible with religion, rather than touting it as a worldview of its own.
Tell that to
Nosson Slifkin (NYTimes, login required), an Orthodox rabbi whose books were banned by a number of eminent rabbis for "seek[ing] to reconcile, rather than to contrast, sacred texts with modern knowledge of the natural world."
That said, will those like Slifkin and
Rev. Dr. Arthur Peacocke be able to make a difference, or will they be ignored and scorned?
posted by greatgefilte
on May 3, 2005 -
82 comments
Creationists argue that the complexity of the
human eye could not have arrisen by random Darwinian natural selection, since it "must be perfect to work at all". The
Nilsson and Pelger computer experiment refutes this with a method of awesome beauty, showing that a human-quality eye is not just possible under Darwinian evolution, but nigh-inevitable. This is from
Do Good By Stealth, chapter 3 of
River Out of Eden, which is maybe the greatest thing I've ever read.
posted by Pretty_Generic
on Dec 10, 2004 -
67 comments
