Kansas, have I got a deal for you.
Bone Wars is a card game that’s billed as “The Game of Ruthless Paleontology” and can be ordered at http://www.zygotegames.com/.
I’m not familiar with the game but it sounds like a take-off on the competitiveness rampant in many scientific fields including Paleontology. The publisher, Zygote Games, is offering a discount to anyone in the state of Kansas that buys the game or to anyone who is shipping the game to someone in Kansas. Why you ask? Here’s Zygote’s explanation.
Why give a discount to Kansas? Why not Wyoming or Vermont? Simple: the Kansas Board of Education has attempted to give equal space in the state public school biology curriculum to the doctrine of "Intelligent Design," claiming that it is a "scientific theory" about the origin and development of life. It isn't, of course, and when real scientists complained that "Intelligent Design" fits none of the criteria for an actual scientific theory, the Board responded by redefining "science" so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations for phenomena.
So we're doing our part for science. BONE WARS is all about how scientific theories get developed and tested (along with being about lying, stealing, and conniving). Maybe our game can do what the schools in Kansas won't.
Not only that, but it sounds like Bone Wars might also give people a feel for how competative science and scientists are. If there was any conceivable weakness in the Theory of Evolution, grant hungry scientists would be hovering around it like sharks around a bleeding sperm whale.
Personally I’m thinking about buying a copy of the game just to support Zygote’s position! Compare this to the American Museum of Natural History being unable to locate any corporate sponsors for its current exhibit celebrating the life and work of Charles Darwin.
The great failing of American Society is that it has become afraid to stand up for the truth. And no I'm not talking about taking the side of evolution, I'm talking about taking the side of education and at least letting folks know how science works, what the Theory of Evolution actually hypothesises and that the acceptance of evolution by scientists is virtually unanimous.
Only once people understand these three basic points can a meaningful discussion about Evolution, Intelligent Design and Creationism really be held.
I’m not familiar with the game but it sounds like a take-off on the competitiveness rampant in many scientific fields including Paleontology. The publisher, Zygote Games, is offering a discount to anyone in the state of Kansas that buys the game or to anyone who is shipping the game to someone in Kansas. Why you ask? Here’s Zygote’s explanation.
Why give a discount to Kansas? Why not Wyoming or Vermont? Simple: the Kansas Board of Education has attempted to give equal space in the state public school biology curriculum to the doctrine of "Intelligent Design," claiming that it is a "scientific theory" about the origin and development of life. It isn't, of course, and when real scientists complained that "Intelligent Design" fits none of the criteria for an actual scientific theory, the Board responded by redefining "science" so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations for phenomena.
So we're doing our part for science. BONE WARS is all about how scientific theories get developed and tested (along with being about lying, stealing, and conniving). Maybe our game can do what the schools in Kansas won't.
Not only that, but it sounds like Bone Wars might also give people a feel for how competative science and scientists are. If there was any conceivable weakness in the Theory of Evolution, grant hungry scientists would be hovering around it like sharks around a bleeding sperm whale.
Personally I’m thinking about buying a copy of the game just to support Zygote’s position! Compare this to the American Museum of Natural History being unable to locate any corporate sponsors for its current exhibit celebrating the life and work of Charles Darwin.
The great failing of American Society is that it has become afraid to stand up for the truth. And no I'm not talking about taking the side of evolution, I'm talking about taking the side of education and at least letting folks know how science works, what the Theory of Evolution actually hypothesises and that the acceptance of evolution by scientists is virtually unanimous.
Only once people understand these three basic points can a meaningful discussion about Evolution, Intelligent Design and Creationism really be held.
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