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05/13/05

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National Academy of Science Member Urges Teaching the Controversy

Phil Skell, a National Academy of Sciences member and Evan Pugh Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus Penn State University, has written a letter to the Kansas State Board of Education, voicing "strong support for the idea that students should be able to study scientific criticisms of the evidence for modern evolutionary theory along with the evidence favoring the theory."

This is a brave move when many of his colleagues at the Academy are trying to frame this as a science vs. religion debate and attempting to convice the media and general public that there is no scientific controversy.

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Micahel Behe Speaks at Stanford

More evidence exists for intelligent design than for neo-Darwinism, and “grand Darwinian claims rest on undisciplined imagination,” according to Lehigh University biochemistry professor Michael J. Behe.

Speaking in the evening at Stanford Univeristy on May 2, 2005, Behe presented a primer for a growing theory of origins called intelligent design, which posits that certain features in nature are best explained by some sort of intelligent designer, rather than the purely neo-Darwinian mechanisms of natural selection and random mutations.

Tristan Abbey, director of ARN's student division, reports on the lecture and debates a fellow student about some of the issues.

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    Most guys going through midlife crisis buy a convertible. Austrialian Stephen E. Jones went back to college to get a biology degree and is now a proponent of ID and common ancestry.

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    Complete zipped downloadable pdf copy of David Stove's devastating, and yet hard-to-find, critique of neo-Darwinism entitled "Darwinian Fairytales"

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    Intelligent Design The Future is a multiple contributor weblog whose participants include the nation's leading design scientists and theorists: biochemist Michael Behe, mathematician William Dembski, astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez, philosophers of science Stephen Meyer, and Jay Richards, philosopher of biology Paul Nelson, molecular biologist Jonathan Wells, and science writer Jonathan Witt. Posts will focus primarily on the intellectual issues at stake in the debate over intelligent design, rather than its implications for education or public policy.

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