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| Does higher education cause atheism? Barry Kosmin, whose American Religious Identification Survey is one the basic datasets for anyone trying to understand religion in America, isn't convinced higher education causes people to become atheists:
Undoubtedly, educational attainment is closely associated with intelligence. So any link between intelligence and atheism seems persuasive. ?
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| Does higher education cause atheism? Barry Kosmin, whose American Religious Identification Survey is one the basic datasets for anyone trying to understand religion in America, isn't convinced higher education causes people to become atheists:
Undoubtedly, educational attainment is closely associated with intelligence. So any link between intelligence and atheism seems persuasive. ?
As regards atheism, on [..] |
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What is New Atheism?  'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.' [..] |
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| Evolution: worse than atheism Coral Ridge Ministries asked their members a question:
How dangerous are the following to the spiritual health of America? Very Somewhat Not very
The ACLU and similar groups 96 3 1
Pro-homosexual indoctrination 95 4 1
Abortion 93 6 1
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| Greg Laden on accommodationism and New Atheism Greg Laden suggests A multiplicity of strategies is better than infighting when addressing creationism and related problems. That seems reasonable, and I'm intrigued by his diagnosis for the conflict over accommodationism and New Atheism:
I have always thought, naively and probably incorrectly, that what defined Accommodationist is what they think, not how they argue. At the [..] |
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| Prolegomena to any future sociology of New Atheism The back and forth here in comments and at Jason Rosenhouse's blog has been interesting and stimulating in the last few days. The question of how the rise of New Atheism will or has changed public attitudes towards evolution, towards religion, and towards atheism/atheists are all important questions that have extracted gallons of ink from a lot of bloggers and book authors. But to date, I kno [..] |
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| Science Education A teacher at Netroots Nation asks what can be done to improve science education, and to get principles of science as a process back into classes within the NCLB framework.
Gore responded briefly that it is "really harmful that science education… [has] been pushed out of the experience our children have in schools in order to teach to a test."
Pelosi answered by talking s [..] |
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Introduction to Open Education ![Click here to read OnLive Starts Streaming Games On Demand This June For $15 A Month - OnLive Starts Streaming Games On Demand This June For $15 A Month [Gdc10]](http://cache-01.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/03/160x120_onlive_game_details.jpg) David Wiley’s course on open ed, with some great links on openness, copyright, etc.. This is the course with the guilds and role play and quests.
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Another argument for more science education ![Click here to read Kotaku Census 2010: The Games You Love - Kotaku Census 2010: The Games You Love [Research]](http://cache-04.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/03/160x120_censusgames.jpg) Slacktivist has an interesting plan for abstinence education:
Two things I've never been able to figure out about "abstinence only" sex education.1. Isn't it necessary, at some point, to describe what it is, exactly (or even generally), that they're supposed to be abstaining from?2. Since the goal here seems to be to p [..] |
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| Bill Nye on science education Popular Mechanics asks Bill Nye about anti-evolution efforts in schools:
It's horrible. Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back. And it's fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you don't believe in evolution, but if we educate a generation of people who don't believe in science, t [..] |
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Education is the silver bullet  While answering a question for Science and Religion Today ("Is it of greater importance for America to have more scientific experts or less scientific illiteracy" – short answer: both, but if I must, I'd choose scientific literacy), I started toying around with these data on graduation rates in different generations:
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Dealing with conflicts over evolution education  The sky is blue. Winter is cold. Jerry Coyne is upset with NCSE. These are the implacable truths anchoring us in reality. The interesting question is not whether Coyne is upset with NCSE, but what he's upset about this time.
Today, Coyne is upset that the award-winning, NSF-funded website Understanding Evolution addresses a common objection to evolution. (Full dis [..] |
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Science Education Policy Bleg  I'm in the process of reworking my blog reading, and one area I'd like to expand is science education policy beyond the creation/evolution fight. I'm finding fairly slim pickings, alas. If you've got a favorite source of information (blog or non-blog) on science education policy, please leave your suggestion in the comments. It doesn't have to be a blog. Journals, newsletters, etc. are all [..] |
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