Posts Tagged ‘Darwinian evolution’
Diagnosing the teleological disease
In a Wiley Journal for science teacher education, Tim Hartelt et al. illumines us about “Teachers’ ability to diagnose and deal with alternative student conceptions of evolution” (the original article you can read here, and a summary here). What this article is about, is essentially a description of how evolution is taught in the classrooms…
Read MoreRandomness and unguided evolution in a clockwork universe
Think about how we instinctively connect randomness to a property inherent in a process, while it is, instead, a relative concept: What appears to be totally random in some experimental setup might well turn out to be predictable in another one (or for someone else). For example, contrary to common belief, tossing a dice is…
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