Texas Improves on Strengths and Weaknesses Language in Science Standards on Teaching Evolution
Austin, TX — Today, the Texas Board of Education chose science over dogma and adopted science standards improving on the old “strengths and weaknesses” language by requiring students to “critique” and examine “all sides of scientific evidence.” In addition, the Board—for the first time— specifically required high school students to “analyze and evaluate” the evidence for major evolutionary concepts such Read More ›
Using Religion to Suppress Debate on Evolution
Evolution was back in the headlines this week as the Texas State Board of Education voted 13-2 to require students to “analyze and evaluate” major evolutionary concepts such as common ancestry, natural selection, and mutations, as well as adopting a critical thinking standard calling on students to “critique” and examine “all sides of scientific evidence.” The vote was a loss Read More ›
An Analysis of the Expert Testimony of Prof. David Hillis before the Texas State Board of Education on January 21, 2009
An Analysis of the Expert Testimony of Prof. Ronald Wetherington before the Texas State Board of Education on January 21, 2009
Executive Summary At the January 21, 2009 experts’ hearing to review the draft TEKS, SMU anthropologist Ronald Wetherington confidently assured the Texas State Board of Education that there were no weaknesses in Darwinian evolution for students to learn about. Yet as the following review documents, Dr. Wetherington in his testimony frequently misstated or exaggerated the scientific evidence for his position, Read More ›
Bear Market’s First Bagged Bear
If the August 2007 implosion of the subprime mortgage lending market signaled the impending burst of the housing asset bubble, the March 2008 collapse of the old-line investment banking firm Bear Stearns & Co. heralded the stock market crash and global financial crash of 2008. Cohan is an ex-investment banker who previously published a history of the investment-banking firm Lazard Read More ›
Response from Ralph Seelke to David Hillis Regarding Testimony on Bacterial Evolution Before Texas State Board of Education, January 21, 2009
TO: Texas State Board of Education FROM: Ralph Seelke, Professor of Biology, University of Wisconsin-Superior SUBJECT: Response to David Hillis’ comments on my research DATE: March 23, 2009 This is in response to Dr. David Hillis’ comments at the January 21 meeting of the Texas State Board of Education concerning my research on evolution. As you may recall, I have Read More ›
Selective Study: End of Life Treatment in Religious Patients
This article, published by Crosswalk, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith: Ominously, Wesley J. Smith has documented the “growing utilitarian emphasis in medicine,” in which saving money increasingly takes precedence over “doing right by suffering patients.” The rest of the article can be found here.
Stem Cell Debate is Over Ethics, Not Science
From the moment President George W. Bush imposed federal funding restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, Big Biotech, patient advocacy groups, celebrities and the media have been obsessed with eviscerating the policy. Indeed, although the Bush administration funded about $175 million in grants for human embryonic stem cell research, and despite the literally billions poured into the field from public Read More ›
Politicians a missing Cascadia link