Critical Thinking in the Classroom *I recently got acquainted with a young instructor who teaches science to seventh-graders at an evangelical school. He’s a graduate of Wheaton College and a recent convert to Catholicism. This affords him an interesting perspective on how evangelicals handle science in the classroom, in particular how the whole ‘teach the… Continue reading
Category: evolution
Felicitous Implications
I would never describe myself as a theistic evolutionist, but John Wilkins (as always) has a thoughtful post on the implications of Darwin, God and Chance that is, as the late William F. Buckley might say, felicitous. There is a simulation program called Avida, which simulates a process of evolution by selection on “animats” or… Continue reading Felicitous Implications
Larry Moran weighs in with some thoughts on Steve Matheson’s critique of Behe’s assumptions.
Humor Break with Chris Smither. Hat tip: John Wilkins.
Steve Matheson has an excellent two-part essay at ‘An Evangelical Dialogue on Evolution‘ concerning the teaching of biology at Calvin College. Part one is here. And the follow up was just posted. Not to be left out, Scott Carson has a good post on evolutionary theory as it relates (or rather doesn’t) to Catholic theology.