State Board of Education Seat is Not a Pulpit
Responding to the Texas state Senate failing to confirm religious antievolutionist Don McLeroy as chair of the State Board of
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Responding to the Texas state Senate failing to confirm religious antievolutionist Don McLeroy as chair of the State Board of
Read MoreI ran across this cheat sheet while looking for an answer to setting line spacing of single-spaced within paragraphs and
Read MoreA commenter on Ed Brayton’s “Dispatches from the Culture Wars” asked what I can only assume was meant to be
Read MoreI ran across this in the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine
Read MoreConservative commentator Denyse O’Leary has posted an interview with Adnan Oktar at the Uncommon Descent weblog. Oktar is probably better
Read MoreThe email server I use was having some hardware issues. Marc picked up a new box and disk, and Jeff,
Read MoreJerry Coyne lets NCSE know he doesn’t like what they said. Meanwhile, NCSE’s April 2009 fundraising letter includes the following:
Read MoreOver at “wattupwiththat”, a commenter opined some time ago: I remember when I was a kid playing with a bicycle
Read MorePhilosopher Russell Blackford takes issue with various science advocacy organizations pointing out that many people of faith also manage to
Read MoreThe Peoria Journal Star’s opinion page has a couple of recent entries. Here’s a disappointing rant from someone who claims
Read MoreBack around 2001, Jeff Shallit of the University of Waterloo asked me about collaborating on a critique of various claims
Read MoreIn Part 1, I introduced the “weasel” program, gave an overview of its role as a teaching tool, and gave
Read MoreRichard Dawkins provided a description of a program in his 1986 book, “The Blind Watchmaker”, that was meant to illustrate
Read MoreThere was no sight-seeing, but I went to Nashville, Tennessee from last Sunday to last Thursday. This was to present
Read MoreI saw the NCIS episode “One Shot, One Kill” and noticed a blooper in the show. Maybe that’s not that
Read MoreSirenian International, a manatee conservation and public outreach organization, now has a Facebook group. SI also has a field course
Read MoreA post over at Uncommon Descent with a long-running series of comments resulted in a link to a video segment
Read MoreAn op-ed column by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times referenced Panda’s Thumb blogger Tara Smith. The op-ed is
Read MoreI’ve already had at least one image of mine pirated for derivative work sold on CafePress. I like sharing my
Read MoreOxford University’s previous Charles Simonyi Professor for Public Understanding of Science, Richard Dawkins, visited Michigan State University in East Lansing
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