Posted by jml on June 26, 2005 | Comments (33) | TrackBack (1)

In this post Denyse O'Leary "comments" on a session I am organizing and chairing at the forthcoming International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology meeting. The session is the second of a two-parter on the Darwinian Revolution, and specifically deals with the following:

Many faculty members teach “Darwinian Revolution” courses. What do they teach, and how and why? And what difference does the discussion about whether there was such a revolution and what it involved make pedagogically? Should the latest scholarship matter to the teaching, or are there different and overriding pedagogical values?

Over at Stranger Fruit I deal with O'Leary's claims about the nature of the "Darwinian Revolution" and question her knowledge of history and philosophy of science.

Update: 21:30 - O'Leary has tried to defend herself against my post, so I've replied here

Posted by Timothy Sandefur on February 20, 2005 | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)

We often complain about the awful state of science journalism. Turns out there's a panel discussion on the subject in Washington D.C. on Sunday, and the public is all invited. (On the panel, one of my favorite science writers, Reason's Ronald Bailey.)

Posted by Pim van Meurs on September 23, 2004 | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)

An interesting conference on Evolution and God:  150 years of love and war between science and religion will be held on October 15-17, 2004

at the Strosacker Auditorium of the Case Western Reserve University

Darwin’s revolution was not limited to the scientific world. It reverberates to this day in theology, philosophy and politics. As a result, in America today, people hear more about evolution from evangelists preaching against it, than they do from their high school teachers. This highly charged political nexus has delivered a false impression about the history of evolutionary theory and its interactions with walks of life outside the scientific world. This conference is committed to achieving a more accurate historical understanding of these issues among historians and philosophers, and bringing that view directly to the public.

Continue reading  “Evolution and God”

Posted by pz on August 02, 2004 | Comments (15) | TrackBack (0)

I got back from the Society for Developmental Biology meetings in Calgary last week, and I've put together some summaries of various sessions I attended on Pharyngula. There are digests of the talks on Development and Human Health, Education, Hox genes, Patterning, and Stem Cells, and for the Panda's Thumb crowd, there may be particular interest in the Evo-devo session and my meeting with Paul Nelson of the Discovery Institute.