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Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Myers on Morning Edition

My voice was on Minnesota Public Radio this morning, in a Morning Edition article on ID, titled Tension percolates at U of M over Intelligent Design (you can listen to a RealAudio file, too). It's not bad. One thing I'd change is that I'm not interested in rebuking Macosko for teaching criticisms of evolutionary biology, but for teaching them badly. If his students are coming out of his class thinking "Gee, I didn't realize how shaky evolution is," then they have been deplorably misled. And since Macosko seems to be proud of instilling that false impression in his students, someone should step in and correct him.


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Comments:
#55320: coturnix — 12/27  at  01:26 PM
That's a cool article. I'll have to find a computer with sound somewhere to listen to the file.



#55332: — 12/27  at  02:28 PM
Heard it this morning on my way to work, and I thought you sounded great. Glad I got to hear your voice, since I wasn't able to attend your talk at the physics dept. Also heard in the radio story is physics professor James Kakalios, whose book, "The Physics of Superheroes," I received for Xmas. Yay! From the same person whom I gave a copy as well. Just cracked it open today.



's avatar #55343: — 12/27  at  04:18 PM
"Myers is generally good-humored and soft-spoken"

Seems they forgot soft-humored and well-spoken...

"A healthy understanding of God's involvement doesn't hinge on a particular scientific proof."

Seems Shaw believes fundies have a non-healthy understanding of God's involvement. I hope he preach that some more.

"Christians and other religious people who are not uncomfortable with evolution are not speaking out, are not really showing that as a viable option. They're the quiet ones."

Exactly! How can we change that? Can we help them fund a "God loved Darwin" society?



#55376: — 12/27  at  09:23 PM
Nicely done PZ. I am grateful that someone in the UofM system is calling Macosko on his shoddy, misleading 'scholarship'. I found out about this 'course' during the debate over the Minnesota science standards. The DI pods on the committee and in the legislature loved to point to this 'endorsement' of ID by the university. There should have been an effort to deal with this kind of abuse. Any regular course gets a fairly rigorous review before getting into the catalog.



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