Looking at the politics and science of our times with more than just what the ''Media'' feeds us in a Rational and objective way, with my own comments and observations.
Monday, November 09, 2009
Philosophy and Evolution
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Epigenetics and Evolution
Thinking about Surprise
Friday, July 24, 2009
Notice today
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Giant Snake in the Amazon in our Hot and Humid Past
This is asking questions about the future for our nature with Global Warming. Maybe they will all adapt to the changes in the environment quite satisfactory as long as Man species Homo Sapien Sapien does not interfere and wipe them out all together. Man's hunting has caused the physical size of phyla 's to trend down at the moment so there maybe two forces actiong on th enevironment concerning size.
Monday, January 19, 2009
I saw this on Times Online and thought you might be interested
For God’s sake, have Charles Darwin’s theories made any difference to our lives?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5488488.ece
What absolute nonsense goes for an article in the Times these days. Straw dog version of Evolutionary Biology (Darwinism) is shot down by exaggerated religious concerns and the odd reference to show that it no longer holds its place in science. Nonsense, absolute rubbish. Interview some real biologists and stay away from philosophers who haven’t kept up with the literature!!!
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Adaptation in Humans
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Beipaiosaurus was covered in the simplest known feathers
Beipaiosaurus was covered in the simplest known feathers
In Ed Yong’s blog above, these peculiar creatures are explained and further explanations on the origins of Feathers in Birds is covered. It seems that the more we dig, the more Homo Sapien Sapien keeps finding his origins and the origins of all the creatures that exist today, which is becoming more urgent as they too are becoming extinct rapidly.
More links on the feathers and dinosaurs are:
- Evidence that Velociraptor had feathers
- Microraptor - the dinosaur that flew like a biplane
- Argentavis, the largest flying bird, was a master glider
It seems that these variations have been going on for literally Millions of years.
Committee adopts new administrative handbook
It appears the controversy over Louisiana's changes to the Education curriculum has meant nothing to the Science Teachers. The Discovery institutes bluster and smoke and mirrors has failed. Maybe they will have to be more explicit in future so our recalcitrant science teachers understand that Evolution is evil and all text books that mention such a thing should be burned! Burned I say!
Clifford M Dubery
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Committee adopts new administrative handbook
Posted: Jan 14, 2009 08:44 AM
Updated: Jan 14, 2009 09:06 AM
By Caroline Moses
BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) -A state education committee adopted a new administrative handbook Tuesday, as part of the recently passed Louisiana science education act. The handbook does not specifically ban teaching creationism or intelligent design. Supporters say it doesn't need to because teaching religion in public schools is already banned. But that's why opponents say this entire debate is a costly distraction from the real issues facing state public schools.
"It's up to BESE to implement this in our policy," said Dale Bayard who is chairman of the state education board. Senator Ben Nevers of Bogalusa passed a law last session called the "Louisiana science education act." It gives state education committees the authority to decide what can be taught in state schools. But the committee was a little vague about what's allowed. "It's up to us to provide students with every possible element of new discovery and that's the intent of the act," said Bayard.
Gene Mills with Louisiana Family Forum asked Senator Nevers to sponsor the original legislation. He says the intent is to promote "critical thinking" in classrooms, especially science classes. "Where teachers can approach students to inquire about controversial science subject matter," said Mills. But Louisiana Federation of Teachers president Steve Monaghan says not a single teacher in his organization has complained about current science materials. "The time spent on this issue may be in total excess of what the problem was because we don't believe there was a problem in the science classroom anyway," said Monaghan.
Even the committee chair Dale Bayard who is in favor of the legislation agreed. Lesson plans may not change much. But he says their hours of debate do help further the discussion. "We don't discourage any discussion that's important," said Bayard. "I believe what this has done is create a stage for what unfortunately seems to be an embedded political movement. We're going to find ourselves getting tied into knots over issues people are invested in by faith, emotion, and miss the big picture," said Monaghan.
Monaghan predicts there will likely be future legal battles over the new law and handbook. Bayard says he is not worried about possible litigation. Thursday, BESE will review the committee adoption. State school board and committee member Dale Bayard expects they will ratify the committee's decision. For more information on this discussion.. Go to Caroline's 9News extra on the home page.