What the Show Cosmos Gets Wrong about Religion—and Science
(Photo by Frank Micelotta/Invision for FOX/AP Images) In its third episode, titled “When Knowledge Conquered Fear,” the new Cosmos reboot, hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, tells the story...
View ArticleWhy Anti-Vaccination Movements Can Never Be Tamed
Edward Jenner (1749-1823), the English physician and pioneer of vaccination, vaccinates a small boy. (Getty/Popperfoto) In Victorian England, nearly a century after the physician Edward Jenner had...
View ArticleThe Sources of Creationism’s Disjointed Science
Ken Ham, founder of Answers in Genesis, at the Creation Museum in Kentucky (AP Photo/Ed Reinke) Once upon a time, in the West, sacred history, human history, and natural history were one. The Hebrew...
View ArticleAP Course Controversy: When Do We Say “We” in History?
(Getty/John Leyba) Afunny thing has happened to a petition posted online by Larry Krieger, a former Advanced Placement U.S. History teacher, and Jane Robbins, a conservative opponent of the Common...
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