And finally, where would we be without some Discussion Starters?
Archive for October, 2011
29 Oct
IEE: What’s in a Number? (6-12)
To continue on from yesterday, here’s “What’s in a Number? Secondary Activities (6-12).”
Considering that I fit within the ’6-12′ grade range I would be insulted by this post if it didn’t give such a wide range of applicable grades.
28 Oct
IEE: What’s in a Number – (K-5)
I decided in the end to call Rhonda Forlow’s alledgedly educational Science Education Essentials blog Ideological Education Essentials, as it rather fits.
Here I cover the first post: What’s in a Number? Elementary Activities (K-5)
28 Oct
Population Growth
One of the more amusingly wrong creationist arguments is that, if the world is really so old, why aren’t there trillions of us? I mean, evolutionists have to propose millions of years without any population growth at all! How could this be true, if population grows in the geometric pattern P(t) = P0ert? This is [...]
27 Oct
Mercury III
The journal Science apparently ran a whole series on Mercury and the data sent back from the MESSENGER spacecraft. A few days ago I posted MESSENGER Is Back, on the subject of a DpSU arguing on the basis of one of those papers that “Mercury’s Surface Looks young.” MESSENGER and Mercury have turned up once [...]
25 Oct
Ancient Art and Cognition
Today’s DpSU from Mr Thomas of the ICR is on the subject of the 100,000 year old South African paint lab, and is called Ancient Paint Workshop Challenges Human Evolutionary Story. Now, whatever makes him think that?
25 Oct
Shirley Ujeste?
Right on time, Rhonda Forlow has come out with a post on her new Science Education Essentials blog.
24 Oct
MESSENGER Is Back
Due perhaps to the fact that the spacecraft MESSENGER – which Mr Thomas refuses to capitalise – is currently orbiting the planet, something that has never happened before, the folk at the, ah, Icr, are very keen on Mercury. They – mostly the ICR’s “science writer,” Brian Thomas – seem to believe that the MESSENGER [...]
24 Oct
Global Warming
I don’t usually comment on the ICR’s Days of Praise articles – that is to say, my drafts folder is filled with unfinished posts on this or that DoP edition. The Days are a series of articles, even more daily than the Daily (pseudo)Science Updates, which “seek to strengthen and encourage the Christian witness.” The [...]
22 Oct
Your Mitochondria May Be Infected
That is to say, according to some studies that a recent paper in Nature cites, an enzyme used in mitochondrial DNA transcription is “distantly related” to that of Bacteriophage T7 (a virus which infects E. coli), a similar enzyme that does the same thing in chloroplasts, and Pol I polymerases generally (whatever they are). This [...]
