• BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Schools ‘may be wasting millions’

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      • As you read this, what questions do you have — specifically about the “big numbers?” - post by brunsell
    • 32,000
      • The value of my savings account grew 100fold over that same time period. So what? Any chance the author could put ANY of these numbers in context? Did it grow 1%, 10%? Very sloppy article. - post by brunsell

  • NSTA :: Pressroom

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    • “The 21st Century Skills and Science map, which includes examples taken directly from science classrooms, represents a tool for teachers and students as they move toward a 21st century education system,” said Dr. Francis Eberle, executive director of the National Science Teachers Association. “Through a combination of rigorous coursework and the application of skills such as communication, collaboration and innovation, science courses come alive and better engage students. In turn, students will enjoy learning more and achieve a higher level of excellence.”

  • Paleontology and Creationism Meet but Don’t Mesh - NYTimes.com

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  • NPR: Texas Body Farm Produces Rotten Knowledge

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    • For instance, it was actually supposed to be sited somewhere other than its current location. But the original planned site was too close to the San Marcos Airport and officials there as well as pilots worried that the body farm would attract buzzards which might collide with airplanes.
      • well, that is a disturbing thought. - post by brunsell

  • Paleontology and Creationism Meet but Don’t Mesh - NYTimes.com

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    • Eau Claire, Wis. “This is what should be taught even in science,” Mr. Leinberger said.
    • The area has also long attracted paleontologists with some of the most fossil-laden rocks in North America, where it is easy along some roadsides to pick up fossils dated to be hundreds of millions of years old. The rocks are so well known that they are called the Cincinnatian Series, representing the stretch of time from 451 million to 443 million years ago.
      • oops, the reporter just let his bias show. Scientists believe in these ages…not Biblical literalists. - post by brunsell

    • Dr. Bengtson noted that to explain how the few species aboard the ark could have diversified to the multitude of animals alive today in only a few thousand years, the museum said simply, “God provided organisms with special tools to change rapidly.”

      “Thus in one sentence they admit that evolution is real,” Dr. Bengtson said, “and that they have to invoke magic to explain how it works.”

      • Great quote! What are these special tools? - post by brunsell

    • Dr. Sato likened the museum to an amusement park. “I enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed Disneyland,” she said.

      Did she enjoy Disneyland?

      “Not very much,” she said.

  • Paleontology and Creationism Meet but Don’t Mesh - NYTimes.com

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    • the stegosaurus from the Upper Jurassic, the heterodontosaurus from the Lower Jurassic, the velociraptor from the Upper Cretaceous — yet in each case, the date of demise was the same: around 2348 B.C.
    • For paleontologists like Dr. Sato,
      • and anyone else with a basic understanding of science. - post by brunsell
    • Near the entrance to the exhibits is an animatronic display that includes a girl feeding a carrot to a squirrel as two dinosaurs stand nearby, a stark departure from natural history museums that say the first humans lived 65 million years after the last dinosaurs.
    • “It’s rather scary.”
    • We will very strongly contest an evolutionist position that they are letting facts speak for themselves.”
      • they may strongly contest it, but if they do it on a scientific basis, they will lose every time. Are they not strong enough in their faith? They have to try to scientifically prove it… - post by brunsell

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