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Joshua Rosenau spends his days defending the teaching of evolution at the National Center for Science Education. He is also a graduate student at the University of Kansas, completing a doctorate in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. When not modeling species distributions or battling creationists, he writes about developments in progressive politics and the sciences.
The opinions expressed here are his own, do not reflect the official position of the NCSE. Indeed, older posts may no longer reflect his own official position.
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Category: Biology • Culture Wars
Posted on: May 6, 2008 6:41 PM, by Josh Rosenau
This is the third of four videos NCSE commissioned to help explain how evolution works, and to help people understand the threats posed to accurate science education. It's remarkable what you can fit into a brief video.
It's also worth noting that a lot won't fit into a video. If the issue of eye evolution is of interest, check out this recent article from LifeScientist. The Nature Reviews Neuroscience paper they discuss is more technical, but is a really good review.
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Is that the best you could come up with? It is Genie's style though....talking to the general public like they're all first graders.
Children, let me tell you a little story...
Posted by: FtK | May 7, 2008 1:59 PM
...and FtK makes no attempt to actually refute the content of the video. Just not her style I guess, she rather likes being a boring whiner.
Posted by: Tyler DiPietro | May 8, 2008 1:12 AM