Comments on: Discovery Institute Vs. Dawkins

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:57:30 +0000

Hi,
You are doing a fantastic job. It will really help the people to know about Basel II.

By: Adrian Hayter

Adrian Hayter — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:21:21 +0000

Kris,

Very true, however tongue maps aren’t a massive theory that has influenced all of science. There is no point rewriting a page in every science book when teachers can say “tongue maps have now been proved to be useless”. Of course, the page won’t appear in new textbooks, but what I am talking about are big changes.

If the theory of Evolution were to be disproved, every textbook would have to be corrected. There are chapters and chapters on Evolution in text books that would need removing.

By: Kris

Kris — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:58:17 +0000

I beg to differ about what you said about a theory being removed from school textbooks if it was ever proven false - at least in the UK, a lot of nonsense still makes it into the curriculum. ‘Tongue maps’ for example. I’m sure a lot of US states suffer the same problem!

By: blogbookmark.com

blogbookmark.com — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:32:56 +0000

Discovery Institute vs. Dawkins at The Atheist Blogger…

It seems that the Creationist organisation Discovery Institute is attacking Richard Dawkins over his involvement in the Louisiana “academic freedom bill” which allows teachers to discuss theories that oppose Evolution. Simply put, it is all…

By: Adrian Hayter

Adrian Hayter — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:45:10 +0000

Exactly, and films like Expelled don’t help the problem. Creationists have twigged that if they get into the public eye they will cause many people to reconsider their opinions on science, and we’ll head towards another Dark Age.

By: vitaminbook

vitaminbook — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:34:14 +0000

The worst part about all of this is that people who aren’t involved in the debate at all - those who are neither ‘evolutionists’ or Creationists - will get the impression that there really is some controversy about evolution. Even claiming that that is giving students the wrong idea, for peat’s sake!