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10/25/05
Gould would not have signed the celebrated Steve list
Denyse O'Leary blogs on Gould, and his supposed namesake, Steve's list. WWSHD...What would Steve have done?
AAAS meeting set for next February
One of the sessions in the upcoming AAAS Annual Meeting is Anti-Evolutionism in America, What's Ahead?
It is stated that the Dover, PA school board is declaring that teachers study ID in class. This is a total misrepresentation of reality. The biology teachers would be required to read a short statement, and tell students that there is a book in the library they can look at if they wish. That's it! In addition, did the school board state that their objective was to eliminate or restrict the teaching of evolution? We think not!
The Summary of the AAAS session...A Science Teacher's View of the Anti Evolutionary Movement
Recently, the school board in Dover, Pa., declared that teachers were to study intelligent design, a form of creationism characterized by frequent intervention by an unnamed Designer, rather than the all at once creationism of biblical literalism. With this statement, Dover joined a steadily growing U.S. movement at the state and local levels whose objective is to eliminate or restrict the teaching of evolution. The proponents of intelligent design are not attempting to carry out a legitimate scientific debate, rather they are using the teaching of biological and cosmological evolution as a mechanism to attain political objectives. While eliminating or severely restricting the teaching of biological evolution is a primary goal, all of the scientific disciplines, natural and physical, are being affected. Speakers will present an overview on the teaching of biological evolution and where it is headed, clarify the scientific issues; identify other fields, auxiliary to biology, that are directly affected, illustrate the effect of the antievolutionism movement on scientific textbooks and standards, and present the perspective of high school science teachers. The aim of this symposium is to initiate a discussion among science teachers, professional scientists, and people interested in all aspects of science designed to develop an understanding of our mutual interests in supporting the teaching of Darwinian evolution.
Dover trial is running behind
Christina Kaufman, of the York Dispatch, reports on the lengthiness of the trial.
Former board member William Buckingham, who resigned to move to North Carolina about two months before the trial started, has been one of the key figures in the trial because of religious comments he reportedly made at school board meetings. He is scheduled to testify Thursday.
Ondrej Hejma, AP writer, appears in the Seattle Post-Intelligence, reporting on the recent ID Conference in the Czech Republic.
About 700 attended the conference, and guess what. There were protestors on hand too.
When a worldview competes with religion - Michael Ruse
Carlin Romano of Knight Ridder gives his opinion on the recent book and thoughts of Michael Ruse.
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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.
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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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Australian biologist Stephen E. Jones maintains one of the best origins "quote" databases around. He is meticulous about accuracy and working from original sources.
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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.
- 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.
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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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