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08/15/05
Evolution: Just teach it - USA Today
Glenn Branch and Eugenie Scott of NCSE also have an opinion piece in USA Today.
Mixing pejorative language and some false claims, the "creationists" are portrayed as "sneaky" ,"underhanded", and "dogmatic."
They say that "America needs to produce the scientists who will pioneer in these fields, which means maintaining and improving the quality of science education— including a healthy dose of evolution, uncompromised by sectarian dogma, bad science and fake "critical analysis."
Their phrase "sectarian dogma" is simply another negative rhetorical way in which they refer to ID creationist rascals. They assume that sectarian dogma in principle can not have evidence in its favor, thus betraying their claim that they are not promoting atheism. Only if you know that atheism is the unrevisable truth can one claim that theistic claims can never be the result of a sound argument.
For their full editorial, click HERE.
Evolution: Debate it - USA Today
John Angus Campbell and Stephen C. Meyer have an opinion piece in USA Today.
The article carefully walks through the current position of why the controversy about Neo-Darwinism should be taught.
They correctly point out that the Kansas School Board policy would "require students to learn not only the full scientific case for contemporary evolutionary theory, called 'neo-Darwinism,' but also the current criticisms of the theory as they appear in scientific literature. The Kansas policy would not require, or prohibit, discussing the theory of 'intelligent design,' which has been so much in the news since President Bush spoke about it earlier this month."
For the full editorial, click, HERE.
Harvard Jumps Into Evolution Debate
Harvard will give a $1 million grant per year to researchers to tackle the problem of the origin of life.
This ID unfriendly research begins with an admission that some mysteries about life's origins cannot be explained.
For the AP article picked up by the Washington Post, click HERE.
Creation and Science Friction
Ryan Huxley of the IDEA Center in San Diego was interviewed by Dana Parsons of the LA Times on the subject of ID being taught in public schools. One point, which Ryan believes was glossed over in the article was that more evolution should be taught in schools to shows its weaknesses.
For the article (you may need to register), click HERE.
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Evolution has become a favorite topic of the news media recently, but for some reason, they never seem to get the story straight. The staff at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture started this Blog to set the record straight and make sure you knew "the rest of the story".
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A blogger from New England offers his intelligent reasoning.
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We are a group of individuals, coming from diverse backgrounds and not speaking for any organization, who have found common ground around teleological concepts, including intelligent design. We think these concepts have real potential to generate insights about our reality that are being drowned out by political advocacy from both sides. We hope this blog will provide a small voice that helps rectify this situation.
- The Design Inference - The Writings of William A. Dembski
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Website dedicated to comparing scenes from the "Inherit the Wind" movie with factual information from actual Scopes Trial. View 37 clips from the movie and decide for yourself if this movie is more fact or fiction.
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- A Brief View of Time and Those That Live There
Don Cicchetti blogs on: Culture, Music, Faith, Intelligent Design, Guitar, Audio
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Australian biologist Stephen E. Jones maintains one of the best origins "quote" databases around. He is meticulous about accuracy and working from original sources.
- CreationEvolutionDesign
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.
- Darwinian Fairytales by David Stove
Complete zipped downloadable pdf copy of David Stove's devastating, and yet hard-to-find, critique of neo-Darwinism entitled "Darwinian Fairytales"
- ID The Future
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.
- John Mark Reynolds Blog
A Philosopher's Journey: Political and cultural reflections of John Mark N. Reynolds. Dr. Reynolds is Director of the Torrey Honors Institute at
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