Creationism In and Outside of the US

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Eugenie Scott is an American physical anthropologist who has been the executive director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) since 1987. She is a leading critic of young earth creationism and intelligent design.

Eugenie Scott, a former university professor, is the Executive Director of NCSE. She has been both a researcher and an activist in the creationism/evolution controversy for over twenty-five years, and can address many components of this controversy, including educational, legal, scientific, religious, and social issues.

She has received national recognition for her NCSE activities, including awards from scientific societies, educational societies, skeptics groups, and humanist groups. She holds eight honorary degrees, from McGill, Rutgers, Mt. Holyoke, the University of New Mexico, Ohio State, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Colorado College, and the University of Missouri-Columbia.

In 2005, Scott and other NCSE staff served as scientific and educational consultants for the plaintiffs in the Kitzmiller vs. Dover Area School District case, which originated in Dover, Pennsylvania. Judge John Jones ruled against teaching intelligent design or creationism in the public schools.

Eugenie Scott offers stimulating and thought-provoking lectures. She is the author of "Evolution vs Creationism" and co-editor, with Glenn Branch, of "Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design Is Wrong for Our Schools".


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World Skeptics Congress: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking in a World of Uncertainty.

Why do people turn to pseudoscience for help? What makes alternative medicine so attractive - and how can we find out what really works? Why is it so difficult for us to deal with risk and uncertainty in a rational way? Can we teach children to think critically and scientifically? And how can academic disciplines like biology or psychology protect themselves from pseudoscientific contamination?

The 6th World Skeptics Congress in Berlin was an intellectually stimulating three-day event dealing with paranormal and supernatural claims, fringe science issues, and scams. Major topics at this event were science and pseudoscience in education, in particular anti-evolution claims and origin myths, and the problems of risk and benefit assessment, especially in alternative medicine.

Gerd Antes, Wim Betz, Johan Braeckman, Edzard Ernst, Chris French, Luigi Garlaschelli, Harriet Hall, Ray Hyman, Chris Mooney, Simon Perry, Massimo Polidoro, James Randi, Gita Sahgal, Eugenie Scott, Simon Singh, Samantha Stein, Kylie Sturgess, Rebecca Watson, Tomasz Witkowski are just some of the world-renowned presenters who took part, taking apart the claims and conspiracies of the modern world.

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[sansensuscommunis]

By whom, the bible?

[T Hemphill]

I find it sad that in this day and age that people take the bible literally evolution is a fact,the world is 4.5bill years old and no one "died for my sins"

[johnjohn0190]

Wtf

[sorsocksfake]

Main note: your error, seems to me, is to look only at the individual level. Evolution works through populations. Say with the climate cooling, those individuals with thinner fur gradually leave the genepool. while the thicker fur comes to dominate (other solutions aside).

And yes, some events are so harsh and quick, that many species don't adapt fast enough. This predicts extinction events. Which indeed, have happened several times.

[JustinMShaw]

The said example of no fur in a single mutation would likely have enough other side effects that said mutant wouldn't even make it out of the womb. Mutations usually have much more subtle effects, thus the reference that it takes a long time for very dramatic change to be noticed.

Anyway, they do now work with no "intelligent guiding in any direction." If there were intelligence involved then a giraffe wouldn't have a nerve that follows a 15-foot detour just to match previous body forms.

[modernrocks]

You are joking? adapt or die? when "evolution" takes millions of years the species would die out waiting to evolve or adapt, even more so when there is no intelligent guiding in any direction. Random mutation could render artic animals with no fur, thats a fact, because it's random. Natural selection can only select from this randomness what can survive, the said example of no fur would never randomly mutate back to fur, 1 cuz the infomation was lost, and 2 the species would be frozen to death.

[JustinMShaw]

There are still organisms that can alter between genders or even alter between sexual and asexual reproduction. Where do you see any problem in the evolution of sex?

If they exist some sort of mutation specialist might be able to give you an estimate on how fast, but you'd already have a skewed view if you expected it to strive for an end goal. It's just the dynamic of the best adapted individuals reproducing more in a changing environment that they and other living things are changing.