Texas : Master's degree in creationism

2007-12-27 Thread William T Goodall
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/education/19texas.html?_r=1ref=usoref=slogin HOUSTON — A Texas higher education panel has recommended allowing a Bible-based group called the Institute for Creation Research to offer online master's degrees in science education. The action comes weeks after

Re: Texas : Master's degree in creationism

2007-12-27 Thread Nick Arnett
On Dec 27, 2007 7:08 AM, William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Misleading headline and misleading subject to this thread... the Institute remains unaccredited. At an unaccredited school, anybody can teach anything. There's no green light here for issuing a *real* Masters degree. One

Re: Texas : Master's degree in creationism

2007-12-27 Thread Charlie Bell
On 28/12/2007, at 2:52 AM, Nick Arnett wrote: Where the difference is, we provide both sides of the story, Mr. Morris said. That's the thinking that really stinks, in my opinion. Polarizing issues is a great way to get attention, gain power and make money. It's no way to get to

Re: Texas : Master's degree in creationism

2007-12-27 Thread Nick Arnett
On Dec 27, 2007 5:37 PM, Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4) Over enough generations, different selection pressures applied to different parts of a population (or even just drift, if the geographic range is significantly larger than the geographic range of family groups), causes enough

Brin:World Building Wiki

2007-12-27 Thread Trent Shipley
I am going to launch a world building wiki. The working name for the project is Red. Since world building shares a lot with encyclopedias I'm planning to use MediaWiki. I haven't decided on GFDL or Creative Commons license yet. The wiki will not be an Uplift site. These are the features

Re: Brin:World Building Wiki

2007-12-27 Thread Max Battcher
Did you look at Orion's Arm? It has a couple of the things you mention: http://www.orionsarm.com/ Trent Shipley wrote: I am going to launch a world building wiki. The working name for the project is Red. Since world building shares a lot with encyclopedias I'm planning to use

Re: Texas : Master's degree in creationism

2007-12-27 Thread Charlie Bell
Hola! I've reordered Nick's reply slightly, 'cause I want to deal with this bit first - On 28/12/2007, at 1:23 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: I hope nobody here has imagined that I disagree for a moment with the historical reality of evolution. Nope! I was just laying it out again, 'cause Henry

Re: Texas : Master's degree in creationism

2007-12-27 Thread Charlie Bell
On 28/12/2007, at 1:23 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: Except... that a species often isn't clearly delineated. Arse, I meant to mention this in my other reply. http://scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts/2007/01/species.php John Wilkins has a nice piece on species concepts here. Charlie.