I'm off to Lansing to meet with and hear an address by Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education. She's giving a speech at the Kellogg Center Auditorium at 6 on the evolution of creationist strategies and most of the MCFS board will be attending and, presumably, heading out for a meal afterward. See ya'll tomorrow.
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I'm off to Lansing for an MCFS board meeting and my pre-winter trip to the big city for supplies (I'm out of gingham and rock candy). See ya'll tomorrow.
Things are very busy here at the AAAS Annual Meeting, so much so that I haven't had a chance to sit at a computer and write anything. Hopefully, if I get some time together tomorrow, I'll blog on a session on grassroots activism and science education. For now, I'll just note the following:
Eugenie…
I admit it is hard to imagine a National Center for Science Education without Genie Scott; the NCSE was Genie, and Genie was the NCSE.
But I think I know what Genie would say if she heard me say that. The NCSE will be fine without her, Ann Reid is going to do great, etc. etc. And, I'm sure that…
Ho hum, I'm quoted in Nature again this week (do I sound convincingly blasé?) It's a short news article on Francis Collins' new book, The Language of God, which I find dreadfully dreary and unconvincing, and I find his argument that "The moral law is a signpost to a God who cares about us as…
Neat! Wish I could go. Please give us a good summary when you can. I've got a lot of respect for Ms. Scott.
They had her on CNN the other night (i think it was Friday last) and let her have sufficient time to make several important points about the failure of ID to "pass" the science test.