Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.
A frog pollinating a flower? That would be remarkable, and a paper supposedly describing the phenomenon was recently published. It got a lot of attention, including a large piece in (guess where?) Scientific American. I was prepared to write about it based on the publicity, but I needed to see the paper first. When I … Continue reading A frog pollinating a flower? Not so fast!
The case of Emerson T. McMullen, the Georgia Southern University (associate) professor of history who foists creationism on his students (see here for my previous posts on the matter) is getting more publicity, now on the national level. Earlier, the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) and the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science formally complained to … Continue reading Update on the Georgia Southern creationism case: McMullen denies preaching Christianity or creationism
Our plane to Calcutta has been delayed by three hours due to fog (this is typical), so I’m able to write this post passing on some good news. You may have forgotten the case of Emerson T. McMullen, the Georgia Southern University (GSU) history professor (actually, an associate professor) who proselytized both Christianity and creationism … Continue reading McMullen case resolved: a big victory for secularism as proselytizing professor told to keep opinions on Christianity and creationism to himself
A few days ago I reported that the Dawkins Foundation and the Freedom from Religion Foundation filed a complaint with Georgia Southern University (a state school) about the religious proselytizing of Associate Professor Emerson T. McMullen. I contributed a bit to the complaint by showing how McMullen’s claims about evolution were dead wrong, and how he was … Continue reading Georgia Southern University responds to FFRF/Dawkins complaint
The case of Emerson T. McMullen—an associate professor of history at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia—just gets weirder and weirder. He’s a diehard creationist and apparently has been foisting his creationism on his history-of-science and science-related classes for years. (Georgia Southern is a state institution, not a private school.) And the Freedom from Religion Foundation … Continue reading More creationist shenanigans at Georgia Southern University
A team of us, including Richard Dawkins, Professor Ceiling Cat, and, especially, the lawyers and co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF), have gotten together to protest the religious proselytizing of a professor at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia, Emerson T. McMullen. Although an associate professor of history, McMullen teaches courses like these, which … Continue reading The FFRF, Dawkins, and I criticize a Georgia professor who teaches creationism in a public university
I’ve written several times before about how Professor Emerson T. McMullen, in the history department of Georgia Southern University (a public school) has been foisting creationism—blatantly stupid young-earth creationism—on students in his classes on science and the history of science. Following a student complaint, the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) filed a formal complaint with Georgia … Continue reading Georgia Southern University launches investigation of creationist professor
The loons, cranks, and haters were a bit thin on the ground this week, although there were quite a few wonky comments not amusing enough to reproduce here. Here are four readers whose comments we won’t be seeing again. As always, the poor grammar and misspelling are from the originals and are not mistakes in transcription. Reader … Continue reading Weekly readers’ beefs
