Category Archives: Analysis/Commentary

John Lynch at his Stranger Fruit blog gives us a rundown of creationist activity over the past year. Summary of the creationist effort? Full of crap, defeated and “no one cares.” Hopefully, they’ll stay the course.

Florida Citizens for Science board member Pete Dunkelberg attended the Evidence of Design Conference earlier this month (November 3–4, 2006 — Clearwater and Tampa, Florida). Quoted from the promotional material, here is what the conference was to be about: “This … Continue reading →

Here is an interesting letter to the editor about the science FCAT: As a science graduate and education specialist teaching science in high school, I find myself along with other teachers arresting our science curriculum in anatomy and physiology, physics, … Continue reading →

Florida Citizens for Science had a welcome presence at the Florida Association of Science Teachers conference Oct 14-16 in Gainesville. FlCfS board member Mary Bahr filed this report about our activities there. ——————— We were able to hand out our … Continue reading →

I’ve been waiting to post here on our blog our answers to the previous letters to the editor talked about here. However, we learned that the newspaper chose not to publish our letter. On the positive side, they did publish … Continue reading →

We at Florida Citizens for Science brought Mr. Fisher’s guest column to Dr. Eugenie Scott’s attention, since she was quotied by him. She didn’t like what she saw, and so she fired off a response which was published today: By … Continue reading →

Another letter to the editor. Another missing link exposed. The letter is in response to this stuff here. Has anyone seen the “missing link” lately? Here are my thoughts on “Intelligent Design Creationism a ÔCon,’ ” a letter published on … Continue reading →

Here is a great column about how Intelligent Design can and does hamper science education in America. I recently addressed a group of French engineering graduate students who were visiting Washington from the prestigious School of Mines in Paris. After … Continue reading →