We at the Panda’s Thumb can’t always comment on everthing in the news that touches on something related to our mission. Here is a list of recent stories that we don’t have the time to comment on.
- Kansas Evolution Debate
- Fundamentalist education raises eyebrows in Britain
- Evolution Wars Show No Sign of Abating
- Kansas School Board Debating Evolution Again
- Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Education
- The Bait and Switch Of “Intelligent Design” Creationism “Intelligent Design” Is Religion Masquerading As Science
- Academic Freedom: David Horowitz vs. Russell Jacoby
3 Comments
Bayesian Bouffant, FCD · 3 August 2005
Panda's Thumb? Read about the Presidential finger
Michael Roberts · 3 August 2005
As an englishman I dont think many of my compatriots realise just how serious YEC is in Britain. We have all these Vardy schools, supported by the Christian Institute of Neewcastle, found by two Anglican clergy, who in the early 70s had never heard of YEC.
YEC is growing in the churches and about 10% of Anglican clergy are YEC, more are sympathetic to ID. Much student Christian work is pro-YEC, when it was not 30 years ago and none YECs are not wanted now.
I found a concerning incident in Notes and Records of the Royal Society today, in a book review of Aileen Fyfe's Science and Salvation a superb study of early 19th cenutry evangleical science publishing which was devoid of YEC. The reviewer criticised the book because it made no mention of Scriptural Geologists, whom the reviewer argued were competent scientifically. He was alluding to a "Ph D" he supervised by Terry Mortenson, now the AIG history of science guru. I have a copy of his Ph D on loan and it is abominable, both in its historiography and its assessment of these "Scriptural Geologists", who held to a six day creation and were incompetent by the standards of the 1830s.The reviewer was prof of History of science at the Open Univ.
Bayesian Bouffant, FCD · 5 August 2005