Neutering our kids' exposure to science
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Already the spirit of our schooling is permeated with the feeling that every subject, every topic, every fact, every professed truth must be submitted to a certain publicity and impartiality. All proffered samples of learning must go to the same assay-room and be subjected to common tests. It is the essence of all dogmatic faiths to hold that any such "show-down" is sacrilegious and perverse. The characteristic of religion, from their point of view, is that it is intellectually secret, not public; peculiarly revealed, not generally known; authoritatively declared, not communicated and tested in ordinary ways…It is pertinent to point out that, as long as religion is conceived as it is now by the great majority of professed religionists, there is something self-contradictory in speaking of education in religion in the same sense in which we speak of education in topics where the method of free inquiry has made its way. The "religious" would be the last to be willing that either the history or the content of religion should be taught in this spirit; while those to whom the scientific standpoint is not merely a technical device, but is the embodiment of the integrity of mind, must protest against its being taught in any other spirit.
[John Dewey, "Democracy in the Schools", 1908]
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May 31, 2006
One Hundred and Fifty Years without Darwin are Enough
Category: Creationism
This story, if true, is rather sad. 2009 will be a major date for evolutionary biology, both the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth, and the 150th of the publication of the Origin (note to self: must publish earth-shaking treatise on...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:51 PM • 19 Comments •
That helps
Category: Politics
Yesterday was a long, busy day of driving, ferrying offspring about, and I listened to a lot of NPR. All I heard, over and over again, was talk about Henry Paulson and his new position as Treasury Secretary. Not a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:02 PM • 5 Comments •
Birdnow is back
Category: Creationism
I'd almost forgotten Timothy Birdnow. He's the embarrassingly ignorant property manager who claimed to have refuted Darwin, but instead made a whole series of foolish blunders; I pinned him down on one point he'd made, and asked him to...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:27 PM • 21 Comments •
Carnivalia, and an open thread
Category: Carnivals
Read. Carnival of Education Circus of the Spineless...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:59 PM • 10 Comments •
Finding Jesus
Category: Godlessness
Isn't it charming how the most contemptibly corrupt scoundrels are so pious?...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:08 PM • 18 Comments •
Evo-devo wars
Category: Science
Fellow scienceblogger Evolgen has seen the light—evo-devo is wonderful. He's attending a meeting and listening to some of the bigwigs in the field talk about their work, in particular some research on the evolution of gene regulation. While noting that...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:25 AM • 5 Comments •
The Onion reads Pharyngula?
Category: Humor
Change a few words in one of their news shorts, and it's perfect. …are calling the park [blog] sensationalist and exploitative, but add that anything that gets people interested in science can't be all bad....
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:52 AM • •
Maybe she has a really good saving throw, though
Category: Weirdness
I've got good news and I've got bad news for Clara Jean Brown. Worried about the safety of her family during a stormy Memorial Day trip to the beach, Clara Jean Brown stood in her kitchen and prayed for their...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:05 AM • 54 Comments •
May 30, 2006
Is there a teratologist in the house?
Category: Weirdness
Call me perverse, but my first thought on seeing this kid was that I desperately want to see an x-ray of the pectoral girdle. It looks to me from this one picture that the lower arm must lack a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:49 PM • 44 Comments •
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