{"id":50,"date":"2007-11-14T09:41:42","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T20:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2007\/11\/evolution_the_nature_of_scienc\/"},"modified":"2007-11-14T09:41:42","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T20:41:42","slug":"evolution-the-nature-of-scienc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2007\/11\/evolution-the-nature-of-scienc\/","title":{"rendered":"evolution &amp; the nature of science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font>I like to teach my students here at Waikato&nbsp;something about how the theory of evolution was developed.&nbsp;OK, I&#039;m interested in history anyway, but it&#039;s also a really good way to teach about the nature of science. You know; what <em>is<\/em> science, really? What does the word <em>theory<\/em> mean to a scientist? How&#039;s science done? Well, I&#039;ve just come across a website that has some really good material on just these issues.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><font>It&#039;s part of the PBS website, from the US. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/id\/defining.html\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a> takes you to a page that has a number of scientists talking about the nature of science &amp; of evolutionary theory.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font>To put it in perspective, the page is part of a larger site written as supporting material for a PBS documentary called <em>Judgement Day: intelligent design on trial<\/em>. It&#039;s based on the 2005 court case that followed a school board&#039;s decision to support the teaching of intelligent design in its classroom, a decision that was challenged by a group of parents and teachers and ruled against by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/id\/judge.html\" target=\"_blank\">US judge<\/a>. And like biologists round the world, I applauded the judge&#039;s decision &#8211; you&#039;ll already have gathered that I&#039;m no fan of &#039;intelligent design&#039;.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font>Anyway, have a look at the site sometime. As well as the links above, there&#039;s some excellent stuff on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/id\/transitional.html\" target=\"_blank\">evidence for evolution<\/a>, &amp; quite a few extras that I haven&#039;t had a look at yet. It would be great to see the programme air on NZ television&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to teach my students here at Waikato&nbsp;something about how the theory of evolution was developed.&nbsp;OK, I&#039;m interested in history anyway, but it&#039;s also a really good way to teach about the nature of science. You know; what is science, really? What does the word theory mean to a scientist? How&#039;s science done? 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