Category: Climate change
The National Center for Science Education, where I work, has focused on fighting political attacks on evolution education for all of its 30 year history. When the group was founded in the early '80s, they didn't choose a name narrowly focused on evolution, hoping that they'd make quick work of creationism and then move on to other problems in science education. Today's announcement that NCSE's taking on climate change is a partial fulfillment of that dream. Creationism is far from dead, of course. This year, legislators in Indiana have filed two bills attacking evolution. One bill revives the sorts of...
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Posted by Josh Rosenau at 6:41 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Policy and Politics
It's odd, people are wrong on the internet, but somehow, I can't work myself up over it. Maybe it's because they're just talking in circles and making things up. Or perhaps my very identity has changed....
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Category: Culture Wars
Ophelia Benson has an odd idea about how identity is constructed: beliefs aren’t actually a matter of identity and shouldn’t be treated as if they were.This claim seems so obviously false that I can't really imagine how she could have written it. We can see how this plays out in religion: there are religions know as orthoprax, where membership is defined by your practices, and others are known as orthodox, where membership is defined by your beliefs in central doctrine. Christianity is (generally) an orthodox religion, while Judaism and Islam are (generally) orthoprax. The Torah sets out a bunch of...
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Posted by Josh Rosenau at 8:26 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Culture Wars
ThinkProgress reports, Kansas House Speaker Won't Apologize For Praying For Obama's Death: Kansas House Speaker Mike O'Neal (R) has apologized for forwarding emails from his personal account referring to First Lady Michelle Obama as "Mrs. YoMama," but he has not apologized for another email using a Bible verse to essentially call for President Obama's death. Psalm 109:8 became a conservative meme in 2009 to symbolize making President Obama a one-term President, but it speaks to ending his term of office by ending his life: "Let his days be few; and let another take his office." The following verse adds "Let...
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Joshua Rosenau spends his days defending the teaching of evolution at 
