Science Is Constantly Evolving
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Ann Reid In the last few weeks, we at NCSE have enjoyed getting to know our new executive director, Ann Reid. It’s been a big change, and bigger changes are surely going to follow, as Genie Scott ends her 27 years of leadership here and Ann begins setting a new direction. Those changes will not…
Lobbying for something we want or think we need starts at infancy. Want milk? Babies have a built-in mechanism for letting their needs be known as only a crying infant can. Over the years the landscape shifts, the needs become more complex, and the asks become more sophisticated. (Or not. Temper…
Photo by Paul Selden Last week on Fossil Friday, I wove you a web of mystery...two spiders (a lady and a gentleman), only recently correctly identified. Who were these spindly spiders? Where were they from? In what time period did they live? There were many answers, but not a…
What happens when a huge lake disappears overnight? A disaster of epic proportions, that’s what! In the mountains of Chile's southern Patagonian region of Aysén, Lake Cachet II is formed by the massive but shrinking Colonia Glacier. The ice historically has dammed a valley to form a lake…
Photo by Paul Selden This week on Fossil Friday, we're unveiling a celebrity fossil! Well, maybe not a celebrity, but it sure has been making news lately. These two spiders (a lady and gentleman) were originally misidentified as another species. What was that…
When you hear the name of Woodrow Wilson, the twenty-eighth president of the United States, what do you think of? His 1912 campaign slogan “The New Freedom”? His success in the three-way contest over Republican incumbent William Howard Taft and Bull Moose candidate Theodore Roosevelt? His 1916…
A few weeks ago, I gave you a polished slab of coral for Fossil Friday, thinking that the answer would be quite simple! I was told that it was obviously a Permian coral, specifically from the order Rugosa (aka horn coral). But then the answers started coming in, and people were certain it was…
Photo Credit: daryl_mitchell via Compfight cc This past week on the Fossil Friday, I gave you a toothsome fossil. What was it? Where was it from? What epoch did it date to? You were quick to respond (not slothful at all). And what was the answer? It was the cheek…
Recall that William A. Dembski, in his No Free Lunch (2002), posed the twin questions “Is intelligent design falsifiable? Is Darwinism falsifiable?” and answered, “Yes to the first question, no to the second question.” In part 1, I explained that although the questions are posed in…