Sentences with phrase «books teaching evolution»
Textbook challenge: A Nassau County resident files a challenge to a science textbook, saying the district should «no longer purchase books teaching evolution as proven scientific fact or books that present evolution as proven fact.»
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And even in Tennessee today the law is on the statute books making it unlawful to teach evolution in the schools.
In addition to being a rock star, Graffin is also teaching evolution at UCLA and this month released a new book.
According to Edward J. Larson's scholarly, informative, Pulitzer Prize - winning book, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, the prosecution of young John Scopes for presumedly violating a state law restricting the teaching of evolution in the public schools need not have resulted in the now legendary high - pitched standoff between the atheistic radical Clarence Darrow and the robustly religious populist William Jennings Bryan.
To name just four academics sympathetic to sociobiology at work in the biology departments of American universities: Timothy Goldsmith of Yale teaches a course called «Biological Roots of Human Nature»; William Zimmerman of Amherst teaches the «Evolutionary Biology of Human Social Behavior»; David Sloan Wilson (Department of Biology, SUNY «Binghamton) researches the evolutionary basis of human behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University of New Mexico coauthored the infamous book on the evolution of rape.
BHA: State - funded Steiner schools teach science from book sceptical of evolution, give homeopathy to students
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And, in light of the furor still raging over the teaching of evolution, the book presents a lot of new evidence about how evolution works at the most fundamental level.
But it's his natural selection - busting theory, which Nei developed in the»80s and expanded on in the 2013 book Mutation - Driven Evolution, that the researcher wants to see embraced, cited and taught in schools.
Three things happened to the TEKS and all - science education standard that called for teaching the strength and weaknesses of theories, which had, back in the last time biology text books were adopted in the mid»90s, had been used as a club to beat publishers over whether or not they included weaknesses of evolution; by which they may enlist creationists and their claims, was taken out by the writing committees and attempted to be put back on several occasions actually by the school board members.
former economics professor who promotes vigorous workouts and wrote a 2010 book, «The New Evolution Diet: What Our Paleolithic Ancestors Can Teach Us about Weight Loss, Fitness, and Aging.»
My research for my book, «Eastwood: Evolution of a Filmmaker,» due in November from Greenwood Publishers, has taught me that he made deals with the studios: one for them (a Dirty Hary sequel or some silly action flick that would make them a fortune), and then in return they had to agree to finance one for him (a personal project such as «Breezy» or «The Outlaw Josey Wales»).