Posted on August 17th, 2011 by gpazymino
Hayden Planetarium carries standard of scientific study [click on title to be redirected to The Standard Times] Dr. Guillermo Paz-y-Miño C. — © 2011 Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Science is just a refined device for resolving ordinary curiosity and a powerful liberator of superstition. It is the subsistence kit to defeat re-emerging [...]
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Posted on June 3rd, 2011 by gpazymino
Harold Camping wrong at forecasting “Biblical End” [click on title to be redirected to The Standard Times] Dr. Guillermo Paz-y-Miño C. — © 2011 Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Scripture is a silly source of insight to forecast the end of the world. But science helps us hypothesize more fascinating phenomena than the [...]
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Posted on March 26th, 2011 by gpazymino
A Stationary Ark on Isle of Jersey [click on title to be redirected to The Providence Journal] Dr. Guillermo Paz-y-Miño C. — © 2011 If the biblical story about the Ark were true, Noah’s attempt to save animals from the Flood would have driven them into inbreeding depression. Sentenced to incest, the descendants from the [...]
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Posted on January 15th, 2011 by gpazymino
Why Accepting Evolution Matters …New England professors accept evolution, but they are religious… [click on title to be redirected to The Standard Times] Dr. Guillermo Paz-y-Miño C. — © 2011 Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth People do not “believe” in evolution; we either accept it, or doubt about it, or reject it. But [...]
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Posted on January 10th, 2011 by gpazymino
By Guillermo Paz-y-Miño C. & Avelina Espinosa — © 2011 Excerpts from “New England Faculty and College Students Differ in Their Views About Evolution, Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Religiosity” published in Evolution Education and Outreach (1) By being proactive rather than reactive in confronting the “anti-evolution wars.” It is imperative that the university professors reach [...]
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Posted on January 10th, 2011 by gpazymino
Evolution is a Theory… The Evolution of State School Standards…
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Posted on January 9th, 2011 by gpazymino
By Guillermo Paz-y-Miño C. & Avelina Espinosa — © 2011 Excerpt from “On the Theory of Evolution versus the Concept of Evolution” published in Evolution Education and Outreach “…It is important to make a distinction between the theory of evolution and the concept of evolution, but without compromising logic… As scientific theory (Greek theoria), evolution [...]
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Posted on January 8th, 2011 by gpazymino
What is an effective way of communicating evolutionary principles to students? By Guillermo Paz-y-Miño C. — © 2011 Comprehensively: (i) discuss the reality of evolution explicitly and directly, (ii) teach human evolution and place humans within the Apes, as primates, as animals, (iii) explain why the fossil record is discontinuous and incomplete, (iv) connect forensics, [...]
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Posted on January 2nd, 2011 by gpazymino
The Jackprot is a didactic slot machine simulation that illustrates how mutation rate coupled with natural selection can interact to generate highly specialized proteins. Conceptualized by Guillermo Paz-y-Miño C. (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth), Avelina Espinosa (Roger Williams University) and Chunyan Y. Bai (Roger Williams University), the Jackprot uses simplified slot-machine probability principles to demonstrate how mutation rate [...]
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Posted on November 15th, 2010 by gpazymino
“New England Faculty and College Students Differ in Their Views About Evolution, Creationism, Intelligent Design and Religiosity“NEW just published (online access) in Evolution Education and Outreach, December 18th 2010 [PDF] Figure 1. Percentage of New England faculty (Fac) versus college students from public secular (Pub), private secular (Priv) and religious (Rel) institutions who think evolution [...]
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