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The Director of the Film Chasing Ice; and evolutionary biologist Lee Dugatkin
02/14/13 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: climate change, global warming, melting sea ice, documentary film, Chasing Ice, Jeff Orlowski, evolution, Charles Darwin
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up today we’ll met the director of the award winning film on global warming called CHASING ICE.
And we’ll discuss evolution and altruism—are humans wired to be altruistic- or is being selfish a natural habit- embedded in our DNA. We’ll also be taking your phone calls.
First up today- Jeff Orlowski is director of the film CHASING ICE- which will be shown several times over the next few days in the Bay area. The film looks at...
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02/10/12 Liz McKibbonWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: evolution, Board of Education, USF, National Center for Science Education, Eugenie Scott, science, education, creationism
An anthropologist warns Florida has laws that are a back-door entrance to teaching creationist theory in schools. At a lecture Thursday night in Tampa as part of USF’s Darwin Day celebration, Eugenie Scott says that’s hurting the quality of science education in the state.
Students, professors and the public filled nearly every seat in USF’s Fine Arts Hall. Jamie Delgato was one student in attendance.
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Defending evolution
02/09/12 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: evolution, creationism, intelligent design, Eugenie Scott, National Center for Science Education
There's no doubt that backers of creationism would like to be able to present their views in public schools. But for more than two decades scientists have been trying to keep the wall of separation protecting science classes in K-12 education from backers of creationism. Our guest is Eugenie Scott who is director of the National Center for Science Education. Scott is a leader in the movement of scientists and educators against the teaching of creationism and intelligent...
Be the first to commentFour at-large Hillsborough School Board hopefuls agree on class size, differ on religion's role listen
07/29/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Hillsborough County Schools, Hillsborough County School Board, April Griffin, Terry Kemple, Benjamin Fink, Sally Harris, Class Size Amendment, evolution, sex education
This year’s primary elections are less than four weeks away, and in an election season the mainstream media is dubbing the year of the anti-incumbent, the ideological rivals are squaring off at all levels. One Hillsborough County School Board race in particular is a sign of the times.
In following the race for the Hillsborough School Board’s District Six, a county-wide seat, it’s clear that religion and politics are as inseparable from education as economics. The school board faces a start...
8 commentsScientists oppose intelligent design bill listen
02/23/09 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: intelligent design, science, evolution, Stephen Wise
The Florida Legislature begins its regular session next week. Sen. Stephen Wise, R-Jacksonville, plans to introduce a bill requiring teachers who teach evolution to also present the idea of intelligent design.
The website for the Ben Stein movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed features a video message from Stein, who has been an actor, and a speechwriter and lawyer for Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Stein asks people to sign a petition for “academi...
8 commentsEvolution in everyday life
05/06/08 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Religion, evolution, higher education, science standards
David Sloan Wilson, is an evolutionary biologist who teaches at Binghamton University in New York.
His books include Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives, (2007); Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion and the Nature of Society, (2002); and Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior, with Elliott Sober, (1998).
Wilson also directs a program that applies evolutionary theory to different academic disciplines. ...
Be the first to commentCritics try to stop "Academic Freedom" bill listen
04/14/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
A group formed to stop creationism from being taught in public school science classes spoke out in Tallahassee today.
The Florida Citizens for Science criticized the Evolution Academic Freedom Act bills pending in both houses in the state legislature.
The bill is being sponsored in the Senate by Eastern Hillsborough Republican Ronda Storms, and in the House by Lake County Republican D. Alan Hays.
In a bid to reduce criticism that the bill paves the way for creationism to be taught...
5 commentsPlan to teach evolution approved with caveat listen
02/19/08 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: evolution, science standards, education, intelligent design, Board of Education, Donna Callaway, Roberto Martinez, John Stemberger, Ed Homan
Florida’s Board of Education today approved new standards for teaching science in kindergarten through 12th grade. The Board voted 4-3 to approve the science standards that for the first time include the word "evolution."
Late Friday, an alternative to the proposed standards was suggested that added the term “Scientific Theory of” throughout the standards before the word “evolution” and “Scientific Theory of” or “Law of” before other scientific concepts. This was to appease some members of...
Be the first to commentBoard of Education votes Tuesday on evolution question listen
02/18/08 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: evolution, science standards, education, intelligent design, Board of Education, Marco Rubio
Tomorrow the Florida Board of Education will vote on new Science Standards for kindergarten through 12th grade. Many scientists and educators say that the new standards are a vast improvement over the current criteria, but a vocal group of parents and activists are fighting the new standards because they include evolution.
On Friday an alternative version of the proposed standards was put forward that some consider a compromise to keep evolution in the standards. Evolution and other collec...
Be the first to commentACLU weighs in on intelligent design listen
12/21/07 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: ACLU, intelligent design, evolution, April Griffin, Candy Olsen, Board of Education, education
Florida’s Board of Education will be instituting new teaching standards for science next fall. As WMNF has reported this month, the proposed Sunshine State Standards for science have been praised as a vast improvement over the current standards.
The emphasis on teaching evolution has motivated some proponents of the idea of "intelligent design" to lobby for the inclusion of that concept in the science standards.
Last Friday, the ACLU of Florida wrote a letter to the state Board of Educ...
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