Sometimes I Leave it to the Philosophers to Hash Out You may occasionally notice in the comments references to “Scientism.”  I alluded to it in the “Solar Storm” video post from last night, but I did so obliquely. Chris...
Topics: atheism, Belief, chris hallquist, Epistemology, History of science, Knowledge, Online Texts, philisophy, philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Science education, Science Sites

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The History Channel Detours From its Religious Programming OccasionallyBut of course, the facts don’t  mean much because it doesn’t talk about our Creator, and it discusses the speculative nature of science so everything is probably...
Topics: Creationism, history channel, Science education

{"title":"The Perfect Solar Storm","post_url":"http:\/\/tuibguy.com\/?p=472","feed_url":"http:\/\/www.tuibguy.com\/?feed=rss2","author":null,"date":"2009-04-04 20:33:40","summary":"The History Channel Detours From its Religious Programming OccasionallyBut of course, the facts don’t\u00a0 mean much because it doesn’t talk about our Creator, and it discusses the speculative nature of science so everything is probably..."}

Image via WikipediaWhy Science MattersThe Texas SBOE has created this “All Sides” rule for teaching origins in Texas, either unwilling to admit that they have opened up their classrooms to teaching the Burp Theory of Creation by the Goddess...
Topics: Charles Darwin, Creationism, education, Evolution, Intelligent design, religion, Religion and Spirituality, Science education, Science Sites, Texas, texas sboe

{"title":"Student Testimony at Texas SBOE","post_url":"http:\/\/tuibguy.com\/?p=461","feed_url":"http:\/\/www.tuibguy.com\/?feed=rss2","author":null,"date":"2009-04-04 06:44:05","summary":"Image via WikipediaWhy Science MattersThe Texas SBOE has created this “All Sides” rule for teaching origins in Texas, either unwilling to admit that they have opened up their classrooms to teaching the Burp Theory of Creation by the Goddess..."}

Things that Make No Sense from a Design Argument So, evolution is a messy process. It works and it works well by adapting pre-existing structures for new uses, but it doesn’t always discard the features that are no longer useful as new species...
Topics: Adam, Adam and Eve, biology, carnival, creation science, creationism, evolution, Mandibular third molar, Religion and Spirituality, science, Species

{"title":"Vestiges of Evolutionary Pathways","post_url":"http:\/\/www.tuibguy.com\/?p=3215","feed_url":"http:\/\/www.tuibguy.com\/?feed=rss2","author":"tuibguy","date":"2009-02-04 05:24:36","summary":"Things that Make No Sense from a Design Argument So, evolution is a messy process. It works and it works well by adapting pre-existing structures for new uses, but it doesn’t always discard the features that are no longer useful as new species..."}

Both documents, as prepared by the E.P.A., “showed that the Clean Air Act can work for certain sectors of the economy, to reduce greenhouse gases,” one of the senior E.P.A. officials said. “That’s not what the administration wants to show. They...
Topics: truthiness

{"title":"Bush is Not the Decider","post_url":"http:\/\/www.tuibguy.com\/?p=974","feed_url":"http:\/\/www.tuibguy.com\/?feed=rss2","author":"tuibguy","date":"2009-02-03 04:25:35","summary":"Both documents, as prepared by the E.P.A., \u201cshowed that the Clean Air Act can work for certain sectors of the economy, to reduce greenhouse gases,\u201d one of the senior E.P.A. officials said. \u201cThat\u2019s not what the administration wants to show. They..."}