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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.   |
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. |
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
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. |
Geotimes
February 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Victory for Evolution in Dover A Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Dover School District's science curriculum, which required the presentation of intelligent design (ID) as an alternative to evolution, is unconstitutional. Just two weeks after the decision, schoolboard members voted to remove ID from its curricula. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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
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. |
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. |
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... |
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. |
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
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. |
Geotimes
January 2005
Megan Sever |
Evolution Disclaimers Unconstitutional A federal judge in Atlanta, Ga., has issued a ruling on the evolution disclaimer stickers placed in Cobb County science textbooks in 2002. He said that the disclaimers are unconstitutional and should be removed immediately from all texts into which it has been placed. |
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
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. |
Wired
December 2004 |
Rants + Raves Letters to the editor: Darwin vs. intelligent design... The Long Tail... Response to climate change... etc. |
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. |
Scientific American
December 2005
Steve Mirsky |
The Trials of Life Because eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, we have to talk about intelligent design again. |
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. |
Salon.com
February 28, 2001
Larry Arnhart |
Assault on evolution The religious right takes its best scientific shot at Darwin with "intelligent design" theory... |
Geotimes
December 2005 |
Highlights 2005 -- Paleontology The "Great Dying" debate... Tracking human migration... More "hobbits" in Indonesia... T. rex bones break ground... An evolving debate... |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2007
Christina C. Schaller |
Let Academic Freedom Ring Unless we liberate science from political and religious forces, our students don't stand a chance in the global workforce. |
Wired
June 2006
Mark Robinson |
Intelligent Decision Excerpts from Kitzmiller v. Dover School District trial regarding whether intelligent decision should be incorporated into school science curriculum... Websites that won't stop until the truth is out there... |
Reason
July 2008
Ronald Bailey |
Flunk This Movie! Ben Stein's new anti-evolution propaganda film, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, is all worldview and no evidence. It gives no scientific evidence against biological evolution nor none for intelligent design. |
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. |
Geotimes
April 2007 |
Geomedia Movies: Flock of Dodos: Evolution going the way of the dodo?... Book review: Richter's Scale: Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man by Susan Elizabeth Hough... |
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 |
Scientific American
May 2009 |
Readers Respond to "The Latest Face of Creationism" Letters to the editor on NASA's budget and evolutionary psychology. |
Chemistry World
January 7, 2015
Erin Withans |
Undeniable: evolution and the science of creation Bill Nye's Undeniable is an account of Darwin's theory of evolution with a good overview of the scientific research that make evolution, in Nye's view, 'undeniable'. |
Reason
October 2008
David Weigel |
Who Killed Real ID? An unlikely coalition wins a post-9/11 victory for civil liberties, signaling that the United States is rediscovering its civil libertarian roots after the momentous disruption of 9/11.. |
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. |
Mother Jones
Jul/Aug 2002
Dan Oko |
Rewriting Texas Texts Texas conservatives are aiming to revise their state's schoolbooks -- and teach a lesson to publishers nationwide. |
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. |
Reason
May 2006
Ronald Bailey |
Separate But Equal? Can science tell us anything about religion? |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
Michelle Withers: Extolling the Teacher-Scientist I create learning activities so students come up with their own answers. I need to figure out what questions will get them there. How can I guide them to figure it out? |
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. |
T.H.E. Journal
June 1, 2010
Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
A Revolution on Hold In their push toward using digital content in the classroom, many schools are stuck in second gear until basic changes to both infrastructure and entrenched habits are made. But even as school districts grapple with making those changes, policymakers have begun to move forward. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 1, 2010 |
A Custom Fit K-12 educators need to get a better understanding of open content, for their own benefit as well as their students'. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
Evolution of the Textbook Publishers are beginning to go digital with science textbooks, pushing boundaries to give students a personalized, interactive experience. |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2012
Cori Vanchieri. |
Susan Singer: A Magical Moment The time to entice students to be STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) teachers is during the first years of college, says Susan Singer, a professor of natural sciences at Carleton College. |
Information Today
January 26, 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Apple Announces Efforts to `Reinvent' Textbooks In an effort to "reinvent" textbooks, Apple unveiled a suite of tools and resources geared to the K-12 education market on Jan. 19 at New York's Guggenheim Museum. |
Science News
February 16, 2002 |
The Way We Were Website on the science of human evolution. |
Geotimes
December 2006 |
Top Paleontology News Stories of 2006 Filling in hominid gaps... On the hominid migration trail... Probing into fossil details... Evolution back in schools?... etc. |
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. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 2004
Geoffrey Fletcher |
The Importance of Delivering Classroom Content Via Technology The idea of using technology to deliver content historically has been met with a cool, if not frigid, response from educators. Why? For some answers, we can look to Texas, a leader in this area -- at least from the policy perspective. |
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. |
Fast Company
May 2012
Sarah Turcotte |
Discovery's True-Crime ID Network Boosts Ratings With Original Programming How the black sheep of the Discovery media family, true-crime network ID, finally cracked the ratings case. |
