Posts Tagged ‘evolution’
Evolution to be taught in UK primary schools
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: November 17, 2009
Evolution is to be taught in UK primary schools And we still can’t get it on the Junior Cert Biology syllabus at secondary level. Now when I say ‘we can’t get it on the syllabus’ that may be a little misleading – it may well be that no biology teacher cares enough to do anything [...]
Scientific Certainty; What’s in a Theory?
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: January 5, 2009
Picking out the greatest disservice we do to out students as science-teachers is no easy task; there is quite an impressive list to pick from. Not reflecting or even being aware of this is in itself significant. I think C.S. Pierce put it best when he wrote “Find a scientific man who proposes to get [...]
Was the human species pre-ordained?
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: December 13, 2008
I think this is one of the most significant questions that mankind has ever addressed, and yet I very rarely come across any reference to it. Stephen Jay Gould is probably the scientist best associated with this. His well known metaphor runs as follows: If you re-ran the tape of evolutionary history, an entirely different [...]
Play the survival game: a cool resource for teaching Evolution
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: November 5, 2008
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The Science Channel have produced a wonderful learning resource on evolution here. I tried it with my Transition Year class and they found it addictive, as did my Leaving Cert Physics class when they walked in and saw it on the screen. For what is arguably the greatest idea mankind has ever come up with, [...]
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