Sowing the seeds of confusion

I wasn’t planning on another post about Evolution Weekend and The Clergy Letter Project, but then I came across this OneNewsNow* article purporting to address the “controversy” over teaching evolution in public school.
Bearing false witness can take numerous forms. Using language to deliberately mislead and deceive is one of them. Concealing one’s own motives and [...]

Revising history during Black History Month

The fact that Evolution Weekend and the celebrations of Charles Darwin are occurring during Black History Month may well be a coincidence – but it’s one of those “interesting” coincidences, given some of the material being put out there to discredit Darwin’s ideas.
We looked in the previous post at the resistance to science and knowledge [...]

A Big Idea

This year represents the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin (February 12, 1809) and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his seminal work On the Origin of Species in 1859. The weekend of February 13-15 is being celebrated across the world as Evolution Weekend. It’s an opportunity to deepen the conversation about [...]