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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 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 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. |
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 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. |
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 September 2003 David Applegate |
Opposition to Evolution Takes Many Forms A 1987 Supreme Court decision forced evolution opponents to reassess their approach and seek alternative strategies that would not run afoul of the constitutional wall of separation between church and state. In the intervening years, two such strategies have emerged. |
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 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 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. |
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 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. |
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. |
Reason October 2002 Cathy Young |
One Nation, Many Gods Vouchers, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the separation of church and state |
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. |
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. |
Reason May 2006 Ronald Bailey |
Separate But Equal? Can science tell us anything about religion? |
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 |
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. |
InternetNews March 4, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Bloggers Can't Shield Sources Apple and three blog sites await word to see whether the judge will change his mind over a preliminary ruling that's inconsistent with current rules for traditional media. |
Reason January 2001 Cathy Young |
God Talk The First Amendment vs. freedom of speech... |
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. |
Inc. December 2006 Alan Wolfe |
Guest Speaker: Worshiping at Work - Religion - Adam Smith Bringing religion into your company can be a test of faith - but not in the way you might expect. |
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 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. |
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. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2007 Schroeder & Ackerman |
The Bond Buyer A majority of Supreme Court justices are leaning toward overturning a 2006 Kentucky ruling that found the state's favorable tax treatment of its bonds unconstitutional. |
Scientific American October 2006 Michael Shermer |
Darwin on the Right Why Christians and conservatives should accept evolution |
InternetNews July 20, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Judge Nixes AT&T, Feds on Secrecy Request A federal judge in San Francisco denied a motion by AT&T and the U.S. government to keep details of a domestic spying program secret. |
Science News July 2, 2005 |
Evolution at the Academies This Web site provides access to books, position statements, and additional material on evolution education and research. |