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The "openminded" and "charitable" Iowa State University Atheist and Agnostic Society will continue to oppose Dr. Gonzalez at ISU.

For examples of their mindset and tactics, visit their website by clicking HERE.

More commentary on the ISU-Gonzalez controversy can be read from the Discovery Institute by clicking HERE.

David Schweingruber, Assistant professor of Sociology at ISU weighs in on the ID debate at ISU. He takes jabs at both sides.

Be sure and read the responses to the letter below it. One reads:
"For the record, Professor, I took Astronomy 120 under Gonzalez last spring and he did in fact make the attempt to teach Intelligent Design in one of the last classes of the semester. Granted it was in passing and only covered for a minute at the outside but the fact remains that he has been allowing it into his classroom and passing it off as a scientific alternative to the idea that the universe was a product of nature".

I didn't know that the universe (nature) could be a product of nature. It seems something transcendent to the cosmos would have to cause the cosmos, and that "something" could not have a cause.

For the entire letter, click HERE.

A brief opinion in The American Thinker, points out that Charles Darwin did not address the origin of life (OOL), but rather the origin of species.

The opinion says that "Darwin knew little if anything about primitive life forms such as bacteria, viruses and the chemistry of the 'primieval soup'. He also knew little about astronomy and biological history before the fossil record, which has been developed rigorously and pointed out in the past 30 years, by scientists such as Dr. Paul Davies and Dr. Hugh Ross.

It is becoming increasingly clear that Darwin knew woefully little about the history of biological life as well, as has been demonstrated in the explosive knowledge garnered in the field of microbiology. The devil's in the details.

For the full opinion, click HERE.

Canadian author and writer Denyse O'Leary, who has also collaborated with Access Research Network, was honored at the 35th Anniversary National Convention of the Christian Booksellers Association Canada by receiving the "Recommended Canadian Author of the Year" award for 2005.

"The award was a complete surprise, as I did not even know I had been nominated," O'Leary said, when informed, on arriving at the Ottawa Congress Centre the following afternoon. "I had only come up to give a workshop."

She also noted that the award is undoubtedly linked both to her 2004 book, By Design or by Chance? (Augsburg 2004), an overview of the intelligent design controversy AND to her current project with Harper San Francisco: a book co-authored with Montreal neuroscientist Mario Beauregard on the neuroscience evidence for the spiritual nature of the human being.

Both projects attracted attention because of their possible international significance. By Design or by Chance?, intended for the Canadian market, was republished by the US head office for the American market, within 30 days of its Canadian publication. The "spiritual brain" project netted the two Canadian authors an advance of US$100 000, believed to be the largest advance ever offered to Canadians for a work of this type.

The CBA Canada booksellers determine the award by a private in-group poll.

Read brief excerpts from By Design or by Chance?: The Growing Controversy On the Origins of Life in the Universe (Augsburg Fortress, 2004) at:

this site.

For the Study Guide, click HERE.