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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.   |
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. |
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
February 28, 2001
Larry Arnhart |
Assault on evolution The religious right takes its best scientific shot at Darwin with "intelligent design" theory... |
Geotimes
October 2006
Stephen Godfrey |
Moving Past Creationist Roots All those who are called to scientific enterprise should pursue that calling without fear or doubt, but rather with joy and enthusiasm. In the end, religion and science do not represent universal opposites. |
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. |
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 |
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. |
Wired
December 2002
Gregg Easterbrook |
The New Convergence After centuries of battle, scientists and theologians are finally forging a grand unified theory. As the era of biotechnology dawns, scientists realize they're stepping into territory best navigated with the aid of philosophers and theologians. |
Scientific American
October 2006
George Johnson |
Scientists on Religion Theists and materialists ponder the place of humanity in the universe in four books: God's Universe by O. Gingerich, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by F.S. Collins, The God Delusion by R. Dawkins, and Varieties of Scientific Experience by C. Sagan. |
Wired
November 2006
Gary Wolf |
The Church of the Non-Believers A band of intellectual brothers is mounting a crusade against belief in God. Are they winning converts, or merely preaching to the choir? |
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. |
Scientific American
September 12, 2005
John Horgan |
Clash in Cambridge Science and religion seem as antagonistic as ever at the Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowship conference. |
Scientific American
October 2006 |
Let There Be Light Science and faith can coexist happily as long as neither tries to take on the functions of the other. |
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. |
Salon.com
February 1, 2001
Michael Joseph Gross |
Hard-wired for God? A Christian takes issue with a book claiming that religion is merely a trick of evolution... |
Reason
May 2006
Ronald Bailey |
Separate But Equal? Can science tell us anything about religion? |
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
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
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. |
AskMen.com
Kevin Gibson |
The Perks of Past Lives Is it possible to believe in reincarnation and karma without being religious or spiritual about it? Or, once removed from a belief structure, is it all just fluff? |
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
August 29, 2000
Gary Kamiya |
Holy Joe Lieberman's God-fearing sermon was a cute political move -- and a debasement of both religion and civil society. |
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
January 2007 |
Rants + Raves Responses to the editor on the November article on New Atheism... Why Mathematics should have gotten the coolest science award... Various forms of prosopagnosia... A big stick as a supercool movie weapon... etc. |
Wired
December 2002
Margaret Wertheim |
The Pope's Astrophysicist Meet the Vatican priest who scans the heavens for the origins of the universe. |
Wired
December 2004 |
Rants + Raves Letters to the editor: Darwin vs. intelligent design... The Long Tail... Response to climate change... etc. |
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
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
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 2006 |
Geomedia Books: Evolving a Higher Understanding Between Religion and Science: A Look at the Evolution Dialogues... After the Earth Quakes: Elastic Rebound on an Urban Planet... |
Scientific American
October 2006
Michael Shermer |
Darwin on the Right Why Christians and conservatives should accept evolution |
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'. |
Scientific American
September 2009
Lawrence M. Krauss |
An Update on C. P. Snow's "Two Cultures" Earlier this summer marked the 50th anniversary of C. P. Snow's famous "Two Cultures" essay, in which he lamented the great cultural divide that separates two great areas of human intellectual activity, "science" and "the arts." |
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... |
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
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. |
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. |
Salon.com
August 22, 2001
Robert Scheer |
Dog days for God It's been a rough summer, taking the blame for senseless limits on stem cell research and killings on both sides in the Middle East... |
Salon.com
December 21, 2001
Carolyn S. Briggs |
Seeing the light A former Christian fundamentalist recalls a life of ferocious, intractable faith -- and the moments it began to crumble. |
Wired
February 2003 |
Rants & Raves Dare to talk about religion, as we did in December, and you'll be praised to high heaven or damned straight to hell. |
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. |
Reason
January 2005
Chris Lehmann |
Among the Non-Believers The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, by Sam Harris derides the callow apocalyptic temper of the monotheistic traditions, while effectively seeking to bully readers into accepting nuclear Armageddon as a justified response to rampant fundamentalism. |
Salon.com
June 12, 2002
Joseph Shimek |
Refusing to be scandalized As Catholics, we must recognize the sins of fallen priests -- but not forget the transcendent meaning of their calling and our faith. |
Salon.com
July 7, 2000
Jake Tapper |
God is their copilot Both born-again, Bush and Gore have made this the most God-fearing presidential race in 100 years. But their faiths have led these men in two completely different directions. |
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. |
Psychology Today
Jan/Feb 2008
Bruce Grierson |
An Atheist in the Pulpit Public identity and private belief are never more at odds than when a preacher loses his faith. |
Wired
December 2000
Jaron Lanier |
One-Half of a Manifesto Why stupid software will save the future from neo-Darwinian machines... |
Salon.com
November 20, 2000
Amy Standen |
Faith in America What does religion mean now? Is it a mystical experience, a collection of social protocols or just common sense? |
