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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
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. |
Science News
May 20, 2006 |
Science Safari: Darwin and Evolution This online exhibit is a fascinating account of how Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution and how that theory is regarded today. |
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. |
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... |
Smithsonian
December 2005
Frank J. Sulloway |
The Evolution of Charles Darwin A creationist when he visited the Galapagos Islands, the great naturalist grasped the full significance of the unique wildlife he found there only well after he had returned to London. |
Wired
October 2004
Evan Ratliff |
The Crusade Against Evolution In the beginning there was Darwin. And then there was intelligent design. How the next generation of "creation science" is invading America's classrooms. |
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 2004 |
Rants + Raves Letters to the editor: Darwin vs. intelligent design... The Long Tail... Response to climate change... etc. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 |
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... |
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
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
February 2006
Naomi Lubick |
Geomedia Museums: Darwin's Life and Work on Exhibit... Books: Carving Grand Canyon: Evidence, Theories, and Mystery... Grand Canyon: Solving Earth's Grandest Puzzle... |
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. |
Salon.com
February 28, 2001
Larry Arnhart |
Assault on evolution The religious right takes its best scientific shot at Darwin with "intelligent design" theory... |
Science News
July 2, 2005 |
Evolution at the Academies This Web site provides access to books, position statements, and additional material on evolution education and 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 |
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. |
Science News
Josh Korenblat |
Book Review: Darwin's Sacred Cause: How A Hatred Of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views On Human Evolution By Adrian Desmond And James Moore / Science News Adrian Desmond and James Moore, who received acclaim for a 1991 Darwin biography, persuasively show Darwin as a great unifier. |
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. |
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. |
D-Lib
March 2004
Bonnie Wilson |
D-Lib Featured Collection March 2004: Cosmic Evolution The Cosmic Evolution site uses text, images and movies to trace the evolution of the Universe from its origin through seven epochs (Particulate, Galactic, Stellar, Planetary, Chemical, Biological, and Cultural) as well as an eighth, Future Epoch, that includes Chaisson's ideas on the future prospects for human life and for alien life elsewhere in the Universe |
Scientific American
October 2007
Michael Shermer |
The Really Hard Science To be of true service to humanity, science must be an exquisite blend of data, theory and narrative. |
Science News
February 16, 2002 |
The Way We Were Website on the science of human evolution. |
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. |
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. |
Science News
December 1, 2007 |
Science Safari: Support for Evolution A new website developed by Alliance for Science seeks to unite prominent scientists to educate the public about the different but complementary roles of science and religion in creationism. |
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
April 2008
Nick Gillespie |
Soundbite: Monkeys and Money Michael Shermer's new book, The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics, seeks to explain "how evolution shaped the modern economy and why people are so irrational about money." |
Inc.
March 2006
Donna Fenn |
The Latest Boardroom Darwinism Charles Darwin's ideas about survival of the fittest and natural selection have become the management metaphors of the moment. |
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... |
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
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. |
Science News
April 3, 2004 |
Understanding Evolution Understanding Evolution is an extensive Web site designed to meet the needs of K-12 teachers presenting evolution in the classroom. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
January 9, 2006
Steve Hamm |
Keep Making It New "Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution" is a often down-to-earth look at how companies must innovate continuously. |
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. |
Scientific American
December 2008
John Rennie |
Dynamic Darwinism: Evolution Theory Thrives Today The naturalist would approve of how evolutionary science continues to improve |
Scientific American
October 2006
Michael Shermer |
Darwin on the Right Why Christians and conservatives should accept evolution |
Scientific American
February 2006
Michael Shermer |
It's Dogged as Does It Retracing Darwin's footsteps in the Galapagos shatters a myth but reveals how revolutions in science actually evolve |
Fast Company
January 2002
Seth Godin |
Survival Is Not Enough Hey, it's a jungle out there! So if you want to win, do more than embrace change -- learn how to evolve... |
| Fast Company |
Watch 128 years Of Coca-Cola's History In 2 Minutes We look at the pivotal moments in the history of one of the world's most instantly recognizable, and valuable, brands. |
BusinessWeek
February 20, 2006 |
"Economists Suffer from Physics Envy" In search of a better economics theory, MIT's Andrew Lo says evolutionary dynamics could shed light on why investors behave as they do |
