Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails)

04/11/2023

That moment you realize it was the Time Life Nature book on Evolution that taught you as a 10-year-old the dangerous misconception that race is biologically based and that humans are “divided into more than 30 subgroupings which are distinct from each other in genetic type…”

12/18/2016

Why Evolution Works
https://mrdrscienceteacher.wordpress.com/2016/12/18/seahorse-evolution-and-the-nature-of-science/

A recent article in the journal Nature on the evolution of novel phenotypes in seahorses presents a great example of the Nature of Science (NOS) and Scientific Reasoning. This study is also exempla…

12/03/2016

It's going to be an interesting and perhaps devastating four years for science education.

Betsy DeVos shares the religious beliefs that drive her activism in a 2001 interview.

08/11/2016

Yet an even newer post in Mr. Dr. Science Teacher.
https://mrdrscienceteacher.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/generalizing-vs-explanatory-hypotheses-how-do-we-use-them-in-practice/

The following post is an extension of a much earlier post of mine called Teaching the Hypothesis. If you haven’t read it yet, you might start there. Here I focus on the distinction between ge…

07/30/2016

New post in Mr. Dr. Science Teacher!

Soon after I first met my Father-in-Law, Ted, I learned that one of his greatest pleasures in life was to ask a provocative question during a gathering of a thoughtful group of people and see what …

07/19/2016

https://mrdrscienceteacher.wordpress.com/2016/07/19/getting-students-to-think-like-scientists/

A version of this post first appeared earlier this year in the Unity and Diversity Writing Project. Unity and Diversity exists “as a venue for teachers to talk about teaching in personal, mea…

03/21/2016

Met with my coauthor, Matt Young, today to finally sign a copy of our book for the cover artist. We also talked about collaborating on a new book!

06/25/2015

Enjoy this 20-minute short film on the origin of humans. For more detail, also check out the In-Depth Guide to the film that I authored.

Which traits distinguish humans from other primates? When and where did these traits evolve? Analysis of the major fossil finds from Africa, dating back to 4.4 million years ago, provides answers to these questions and reveals the history of our evolutionary origins.

06/24/2015

My summer reading list.

05/31/2015

"Is it true that the US Government hires young-earth creationist scientists?"

Forget about creationism in public schools for a minute. Is it true that the US Government hires young-earth creationist scientists? Can it be true that leading scientific agencies such as NASA emp...

05/22/2015

Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails) has now surpassed 1,000 likes. Thanks everyone!

04/16/2015

Science is not belief, but the will to find out. Indeed, “science tests its hypotheses better than any other human endeavor. Scientists do their best to test (even falsify) their own hypotheses before they will accept them. Any belief, religious or other, that denies known scientific fact is seriously in need of reconsideration. Religion and science are not incompatible, but some religious beliefs are at odds with facts and need to be reevaluated.” -from Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails), Matt Young and Paul K. Strode, Rutgers University Press (2009).

I came in contact with a new website the other day and the first article I read is the one that is going to be analyzed below. You can find it at the following link: For people who claim to be obje...