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Salon.com
February 28, 2001
Larry Arnhart |
Assault on evolution The religious right takes its best scientific shot at Darwin with "intelligent design" theory...   |
Geotimes
September 2005
Nisbet & Nisbet |
Evolution & Intelligent Design: Understanding Public Opinion Tensions in American society over religious and scientific accounts of human origins are centuries old, and the divide between the two contending worldviews continues today as part of an escalating political conflict over science education. |
Geotimes
October 2005
Megan Sever |
Evolution Battles Continue The battle over the teaching of evolution in public schools in the United States reached a fervor this week, as a number of prominent scientists testified in an ongoing court trial that pits evolution against intelligent design. |
Geotimes
September 2003
David Applegate |
Opposition to Evolution Takes Many Forms A 1987 Supreme Court decision forced evolution opponents to reassess their approach and seek alternative strategies that would not run afoul of the constitutional wall of separation between church and state. In the intervening years, two such strategies have emerged. |
Wired
December 2004 |
Rants + Raves Letters to the editor: Darwin vs. intelligent design... The Long Tail... Response to climate change... etc. |
Geotimes
April 2005
Linda Rowan |
Creationism: Back in Kansas Again Unfortunately, a brief history of the creationism movement over the past 80 years suggests that the debate has not been resolved, but rather the movements in Kansas and elsewhere are subtly changing tactics to try to gain the same objective. |
Scientific American
October 2008
Sally Lehrman |
The Christian Man's Evolution: How Darwinism and Faith Can Coexist A geneticist ordained as a Dominican priest, Francisco J. Ayala sees no conflict between Darwinism and faith. Convincing most of the American public of that remains the challenge. |
Geotimes
February 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Victory for Evolution in Dover A Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Dover School District's science curriculum, which required the presentation of intelligent design (ID) as an alternative to evolution, is unconstitutional. Just two weeks after the decision, schoolboard members voted to remove ID from its curricula. |
Geotimes
November 2005
Kathryn Hansen |
Kansas Vote Challenges Evolution The Kansas State Board of Education voted yesterday to approve science education standards that treat evolution with skepticism. Scientists say that the standards open the door for nonscientific beliefs such as intelligent design to enter science classrooms across the state. |
Geotimes
November 2004
Megan Sever |
More Challeneges to Evolution In three states this week, battles rage on about the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution in public schools. |
Geotimes
July 2005
Mark A. Wilson |
Geomedia Books: Seeing Landscapes from Above... Creationism's Trojan Horse... DVDs: Hubble's Anniversary... On the Shelf: Mars and Beyond... etc. |
Salon.com
May 4, 2001
Fiona Morgan |
Louisiana calls Darwin a racist The state Legislature casts him in the same league as Hitler. A science educator says it's going to be a rough year for evolutionists... |
Geotimes
March 2005
Megan Sever |
Evolution Battles Rage School districts in Pennsylvania and Georgia are challenging evolution theory in the classroom, and now the courtroom. |
Reason
November 2005
Chris Lehmann |
Inherit the Baloney In Monkey Business: The True Story of the Scopes Trial, by Marvin Olasky and John Perry, creationists try to settle a score with Darwin. |
Geotimes
December 2005
Kathryn Hansen |
Victory for Evolution in Dover A Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Dover Area School District's science curriculum, which required the presentation of intelligent design -- a religious theory -- as an alternative to evolution, is unconstitutional. |
Geotimes
September 2003
Megan Sever |
Textbook battle over evolution Now that the Texas board is considering 11 biology and science textbooks for adoption and use in its 2004-2005 school year, the evolution debate has once again erupted in Texas and around the country. |
Geotimes
September 2003
Megan Sever |
Evolution debate continues in Texas At a public hearing on Wednesday, people on both sides of the ongoing evolution debate duked it out over how the topic should be covered in Texas high school biology textbooks. |
Reason
July 2008
Ronald Bailey |
Flunk This Movie! Ben Stein's new anti-evolution propaganda film, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, is all worldview and no evidence. It gives no scientific evidence against biological evolution nor none for intelligent design. |
Geotimes
April 2007 |
Geomedia Movies: Flock of Dodos: Evolution going the way of the dodo?... Book review: Richter's Scale: Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man by Susan Elizabeth Hough... |
Geotimes
September 2005
Lee J. Suttner |
Believing vs. Knowing: Faith's Role in the Evolution Debate Belief in evolution does not preclude belief in God. But belief is the key word. Fully understanding the concept of belief is fundamental to arguments for keeping creationism and its clever smokescreen, intelligent design, out of the science classrooms of all of our schools, not just the public ones. |
Geotimes
May 2003
Branch & Evans |
All About Steve (and Darwin) Project Steve is a parody of the lists used by creationists to try to convince the public that evolution is shaky. But there is a serious side to it, too: to remind the public that scientific questions are not answered by acclamation but by scientific research, which, of course, overwhelmingly supports evolution. |
Scientific American
December 2005
Steve Mirsky |
The Trials of Life Because eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, we have to talk about intelligent design again. |
Wired
October 23, 2007
Clive Thompson |
Clive Thompson on Why Science Will Triumph Only When Theory Becomes Law Turns out, the real culture war in science isn't about science at all -- it's about language. And to fight this war, we need to change the way we talk about scientific knowledge. |
Geotimes
December 2005 |
Highlights 2005 -- Paleontology The "Great Dying" debate... Tracking human migration... More "hobbits" in Indonesia... T. rex bones break ground... An evolving debate... |
Chemistry World
January 7, 2015
Erin Withans |
Undeniable: evolution and the science of creation Bill Nye's Undeniable is an account of Darwin's theory of evolution with a good overview of the scientific research that make evolution, in Nye's view, 'undeniable'. |
Geotimes
March 2006
Bergstrom & Lipsitch |
Evolution Lessons From Infectious Diseases Even though the critics of evolutionary biology rarely dispute examples of microbial evolution on human timescales, the public appears largely unaware of the importance and success of evolutionary biology in dealing with human disease. |
Chemistry World
September 2006
Mark Peplow |
Editorial: Making a Monkey Out of Evolution If a scientific concept as well supported as evolution can be widely regarded as false, what hope for the greenhouse effect, radiocarbon dating, or the second law of thermodynamics? Chemists have as much responsibility as other scientists to uphold the value of hard evidence. |
Wired
December 2002
Gregg Easterbrook |
The New Convergence After centuries of battle, scientists and theologians are finally forging a grand unified theory. As the era of biotechnology dawns, scientists realize they're stepping into territory best navigated with the aid of philosophers and theologians. |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2012
Kendalll Powell |
Jeffrey Kieft: Inspired to Serve In addition to running his University of Colorado lab, he engages church groups on the theory of evolution. He's driven to advocate for science. |
Wired
June 2006
Mark Robinson |
Intelligent Decision Excerpts from Kitzmiller v. Dover School District trial regarding whether intelligent decision should be incorporated into school science curriculum... Websites that won't stop until the truth is out there... |
Geotimes
February 2004
Megan Sever |
Georgia: evolution on the mind Over the past month, evolution has been back in the news. In an 800-page draft of Georgia's educational standards released for public comment in January, the word "evolution" had been removed from the biology curriculum. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
Michelle Withers: Extolling the Teacher-Scientist I create learning activities so students come up with their own answers. I need to figure out what questions will get them there. How can I guide them to figure it out? |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2012 |
Raising Their Game When done right professional development can make a real difference for students. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2011
Jim Barlow |
Stirring Debate Joe Thornton is a laser-focused scientist probing the molecular evolution of steroid hormones and their receptors. When Thornton enters the classroom of "Biology and Politics," however, his focus broadens to embrace his background in the liberal arts and environmental activism. |
Chemistry World
June 12, 2015
Vicki Marshall |
The vital question: why is life the way it is? Despite saying the book is for the general reader, The vital question is not written as a typical popular science book. It is perhaps aimed at an audience engaged with biochemistry research. |
Outside
September 2006
Bruce Barcott |
The Evolution Revolution Our greatest science writers take on intelligent design in books that explore the theories of Charles Darwin and the 21st-century consequences of not believing |
Popular Mechanics
September 2, 2008
Matt Sullivan |
Adam Savage's Plan to Banish Boring Science Education & More Adam Savage discusses everything from No Child Left Behind to the evolution debate in America's schools |
Geotimes
November 2003
Megan Sever |
Evolution to stay in Texas texts On Nov. 7, the months-long debate over how evolution would be presented in high-school biology textbooks in Texas came to a head: Evolution is here to stay, in its entirety. |
Reason
May 2006
Ronald Bailey |
Separate But Equal? Can science tell us anything about religion? |
Scientific American
December 2008
John Rennie |
Dynamic Darwinism: Evolution Theory Thrives Today The naturalist would approve of how evolutionary science continues to improve |
Geotimes
October 2006
Stephen Godfrey |
Moving Past Creationist Roots All those who are called to scientific enterprise should pursue that calling without fear or doubt, but rather with joy and enthusiasm. In the end, religion and science do not represent universal opposites. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
Evolution of the Textbook Publishers are beginning to go digital with science textbooks, pushing boundaries to give students a personalized, interactive experience. |
Scientific American
May 2009 |
Readers Respond to "The Latest Face of Creationism" Letters to the editor on NASA's budget and evolutionary psychology. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
September 1, 2005
Humphrey Taylor |
Back Page: Evolution? It's Not Right! The Religious Right is likely to influence the future of medicine, healthcare, and medical research. |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2007
Christina C. Schaller |
Let Academic Freedom Ring Unless we liberate science from political and religious forces, our students don't stand a chance in the global workforce. |
Science News
January 31, 2009
Tom Siegfried |
Darwin's Natural Selection Redefined The Idea Of Design Charles Darwin is not around today to explain his views to critics who decry evolution on religious grounds. But among his voluminous writings are occasional passages that indicate how he might have answered if questions were posed to him today. |
Geotimes
November 2006 |
Geomedia Books: Evolving a Higher Understanding Between Religion and Science: A Look at the Evolution Dialogues... After the Earth Quakes: Elastic Rebound on an Urban Planet... |
HHMI Bulletin
Spring 2013
Janice Arenofsky |
James Collins: Between the White Spaces The ecologist and evolutionary biologist at Arizona State University says the balance is shifting from singular experts doing independent research to a mix of individual and team approaches. |
Scientific American
March 2006
Jonathan Weiner |
From Surmise to Sunrise Book Reviews: From So Simple a Beginning: The Four Great Books of Charles Darwin, Edited by Edward O. Wilson... Darwin: The Indelible Stamp: The Evolution of an Idea, Edited, with commentary, by James D. Watson... Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral by David Dobbs... |
Wired
December 2000
Jaron Lanier |
One-Half of a Manifesto Why stupid software will save the future from neo-Darwinian machines... |
