Kansas school vote opens door to ID reports ScienceNOW and news@nature 10 August 2005. The Kansas Board of Education yesterday endorsed science standards that could allow for the teaching of alternatives to evolutionary theory. Scientists say the new draft standards are a thinly disguised attempt to slip intelligent design (ID) into the science curriculum. The […]
Tag: philosophy
IgNobel Award for Plant Dignity
IgNobel award for plant dignity, according to articles in Improbable Research, BBC News Online and swissinfo.ch, 3 Oct 2008. Each year the editors of the magazine Annals of Improbable Research (for “research that cannot or should not be reproduced”) present awards named IgNobels to scientists whose research “makes people laugh then think”. This year’s winner […]
Big Picture History
Big picture history course begins in Australian schools, according to article in The Weekend Australian Magazine 11-12 August 2012. Historian David Christian has developed a course named “Big History” that starts with the Big Bang and “compresses 13.7 billion years of history into a one year course”. During the course students “encounter space dust before […]
Creationist on BBC
A creationist on BBC Gloucestershire, 25 September 2011, 8.20am (approx). In this eight minute segment of the Sunday morning programme, John Hellings interviewed Alistair Nobel, James Williams & Nigel Steele in response to the campaign to ban the teaching of creation and Intelligent Design in UK schools. Those behind the campaign are also calling for […]