So anti-discrimination laws do not apply if the discrimination comes from a faith based group?
Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
A lot of talk goes back and forth on science and skepticism blogs about the importance of science education and communication. Many popular books have been written on maths and physics (for those who are interested, Big Bang and Fermat’s Enigma by Simon Singh are both brilliant), but there are very few popular articles out […]
In this opinion piece, published in The Age on March 9, 2010, Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam asserts that “Nuclear (energy) does not have the answers we need”. There’s quite a bit in this piece that I don’t consider to be well informed, accurate and unbiased — so I thought I would take a bit of a […]
I go to a small semi-private school in Victoria, a Christian school, supposedly non-denominational. Every fortnight we have a compulsory chapel service that runs for 45mins. Today we had Dr. Mark Harwood of creation.com come and lecture us on how the world was created. The whole thing was utterly pathetic, for 4 main reasons: 1. Yes […]
So, I’m back to making YouTube videos about evolutionary biology and its misinformed critics after a long hiatus. This new one is all about Stephen C. Meyer, a Discovery Institute fellow who’s been the darling of the intelligent design movement after his most recent book, Signature in the Cell, was hyped to the Moon and […]
Of all the good and wonderful things kids can learn at school these days, it seems that logic is still not one of them. Certainly, skills in logical thinking are necessary for maths and perhaps some other disciplines, but these subjects do not teach logic per se. Rather, they simply reward students who already possess […]
Cross post from Godless Business Like all other discourse in society, religious conversations hinge on the definitions of specific words. To facilitate meaningful discussion it is important that everyone involved agrees on the specific interpretations of the words and phrases used so that the all parties have a clear understanding of the message being conveyed. […]
Cross-posted from Homologous Legs The NCSE, that wonderful US organisation that fights to keep evolutionary biology taught properly in American public schools, has, since 2009, been giving away excerpts from various books about evolution on Facebook and their homepage. Robert Luhn, the NCSE’s Director of Communications, recently emailed me (and a whole lot of other […]
