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Some people like to claim that scientific method magically appeared overnight as a primary means for anti-religious types to attack believers. This is disturbing as it wastes a lot time that we could be using to explore the world, educate each other, and in general just have the good time we have worked so [...]

This weeks issue of nature had a pivotal article in the understanding of our nature as humans. The essential question that this letter answers is when, as Monty Python would say, did we start drawing the naughty bits. The answer, the letter asserts, is thirty five thousand calendar years ago, as indicated by [...]

Nature publishes two articles this week on the tentatively accepted Homo floresiensis.  This is the new and disputed Hominid species based on fossils found on the Indonesian island of Flores that are smaller than known hominids.

H. flores, as we will call it, provides a wonderful and contemporary insight into the working of science.  The first [...]

In terms of the idea of teaching the alternatives, many faith based persons focus on evolution. Perhaps this is because in it’s base form evolution is simple enough to attack. The funny thing is that evolution is not the most vulnerable, nor the most questionable, theory of modern science. In fact by [...]

The New York Times reported that according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, No Child Left Behind(NCLB) has not narrowed the achievement gap between groups of students based on race. As the historical data of the NAEP suggests, most improvement in scores occurred after segregation.  No scores systematically decreased.  The rate of change [...]