Today is Darwin Day, honoring a complex man with a stunningly simpleidea that replaced the need for magical thinking. Folks may hold on to their magic, I know I do, but they can no longer use rational thinking to hold on to the idea that the Hand of God was necessary to craft our appearance here. The theory of evolution cannot disprove God—no ...

When anyone suggests that we not teach evolution in school, he is suggesting that we not teach biology, and in a broader sense, science. So let's be more frank about the discussion--do we teach science, or something else pretending to be science (which reduces science to superstition), or skip the whole thing entirely? (And no, technology ...

 13 percent of teachers explicitly endorse creationism or intelligent design, and spend at least on hour of class time presenting it in a positive light. An additional 5 percent reported that they support creationism in passing or when answering students’ questions. from Wired, citing Science. What if 13% of science teachers announced in ...

''Because when you’re set in your ways, you stay true to yourself.'' Coors commercial I'll give the wealthy Coors family this much. They've managed to sum up the crisis in education, in our culture, and in our experiment in democracy in a succinct piece of propaganda. And they managed to do this by selling mediocre beer at a premium price. We ...

The essential question of the year is already up on the board: Were humans inevitable? But now I'm thinking (and thinking) that it's not personal enough, so I may change it to this: Were you inevitable? (Sophomores love chatting about themselves, and they love big questions. Not necessarily because they're budding philosophers, but rather ...