The NSF awarded almost $1.5 million for “Evolving Minds in Early Elementary School: Foundations for a Learning Sequence on Natural Selection Using Stories.”
These are EXCELLENT. I would say the themes of all three have to do with the importance of not worshipping scientists or imagining that science is infallible.
The rapidly changing religious demographics of American society constitutes an undoubtedly complex sociological issue that will resist easy explanation.
Rob Stadler notes that the simplest existing single-celled organisms are far too sophisticated to have emerged through a blind process of prebiotic evolution.
This off-beat program is incredibly popular with 10+ million listeners every week. So it’s an unusual and valuable opportunity to reach a new audience.
"The fine-tuning of the universe is better explained by an intelligent agent that transcends the universe, with attributes that we associate with God."
I suspect this challenge will not be widely heeded. Studying these issues will lead researchers toward a conclusion they simply are not willing to accept.
