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7 Feb 2011, 7:26 pm by Steve Bainbridge
” It’s easy for social scientists to observe this process in other communities, like the fundamentalist Christians who embrace “intelligent design” while rejecting Darwinism. [read post]
14 Sep 2010, 5:30 am by Sheldon Toplitt
Image via WikipediaA dying field with insufficient prospects for job growth.That's how the Kansas Department of Education views journalism, which means fewer vocational dollars for school journalism programs statewide beginning in the 2012-2013 school year, according to a story in the Topeka Capital Journal. [read post]
23 Jul 2010, 8:36 am by Simon Fodden
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8 Dec 2009, 2:43 pm
The statistical techniques used in the scientific backwater of historical climatology are often ad hoc, bearing little relation to the techniques that are standard in other fields. [read post]
22 Oct 2009, 12:01 am
(I do not even mention the change in the bankruptcy law in 2003 that tilted the playing field even more decidedly in favor of lenders.)In passing, I mention in the column that it is especially appalling to claim that we can expose the average American to the tender mercies of the consumer loan market when we as a society have failed so abysmally to educate so many of our citizens. [read post]
21 Oct 2009, 9:33 am
" As president of Yale, Stiles "not only let the students read what they wanted but encouraged them to discuss controversial questions in every field of thought. [read post]
7 Sep 2009, 12:18 am
And even the two natural scientists offer bromides that could have come from specialists in any field. [read post]
4 Jul 2009, 5:18 am
Wright applies a Darwinian analogy, echoing the set of Darwin-related themes bouncing around Aspen this week. [read post]
21 Jun 2009, 4:42 pm
The Louisiana House of Representatives passed a the “Academic Freedom Bill” that singles out evolution and other theories or fields of science and implies that they are controversial. [read post]
3 Jun 2009, 2:30 pm
In conclusion, experts in the field of patient safety know the root causes of so much mayhem and how to prevent it. [read post]
25 Mar 2009, 8:40 am
Variations on Darwin’s theory of evolution through the process of natural selection are used to explain how changes occur in the formation of culture and societies, companies, technology, and so on. [read post]
9 Feb 2009, 4:08 pm
The rejection was in part because a substantial amount of science, including the two new fields of Mendelian genetics and population genetics, needed to be developed before other, more enticing mechanisms of selection could be excluded. [read post]
9 Feb 2009, 3:43 pm
It is perhaps equally strange that so many biologists failed for so many decades to accept ideas that Darwin expressed in clear and beautiful English.The rejection was in part because a substantial amount of science, including the two new fields of Mendelian genetics and population genetics, needed to be developed before other, more enticing mechanisms of selection could be excluded. [read post]
24 Nov 2008, 3:22 am
Finally, in true celebration of Evolution Day, take a look at some of the most enduring misconceptions about Darwin's paradigm breaking theory here, including the fact -- noted by Fruchter -- that Darwin did not originate the phrase "survival of the fittest. [read post]
24 Nov 2008, 1:27 am
Darwin approved of the phrase and later used it in future works (crediting Spencer). [read post]
24 Oct 2008, 8:12 am
In essence, the reasoning of the Supreme Court majority, in denying patentability to animals and plants, owes more to the ancient "Chain of Being" than it does to the accepted scientific view of evolution first published a full century and a half ago in Charles Darwin's The Origin Of Species. [read post]
1 Sep 2008, 9:07 pm
" Sarah Palin appears to have less respect for Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. [read post]
21 Jul 2008, 1:49 am
"Equality under the law is therefore more like the invisible fields of relativity rather than the precise visible genes of biological genetics, and this brings us full circle to our original juxtaposition of cosmology and legal theory. [read post]
18 Jul 2008, 9:25 pm
Gretidog Field Day: Oral and Videotaped Deposition of Darwin Deason [Infirmation / Greedy Texas] [read post]