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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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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 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 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 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 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 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.
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.
Science News May 20, 2006	Science Safari: Darwin and Evolution This online exhibit is a fascinating account of how Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution and how that theory is regarded today.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Salon.com February 28, 2001 Larry Arnhart	Assault on evolution The religious right takes its best scientific shot at Darwin with "intelligent design" theory...
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?
Reason October 2005 Tim Cavanaugh	How Reforms Evolve The conservative, creationist Academic Bill of Rights that drew considerable attention -- and mockery -- died quietly in the Florida House.
Wired December 2004	Rants + Raves Letters to the editor: Darwin vs. intelligent design... The Long Tail... Response to climate change... etc.
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'.
Science News February 16, 2002	The Way We Were Website on the science of human evolution.
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.
Scientific American October 2006 Michael Shermer	Darwin on the Right Why Christians and conservatives should accept evolution
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
D-Lib March 2004 Bonnie Wilson	D-Lib Featured Collection March 2004: Cosmic Evolution The Cosmic Evolution site uses text, images and movies to trace the evolution of the Universe from its origin through seven epochs (Particulate, Galactic, Stellar, Planetary, Chemical, Biological, and Cultural) as well as an eighth, Future Epoch, that includes Chaisson's ideas on the future prospects for human life and for alien life elsewhere in the Universe
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Jim Barlow	Stirring Debate Joe Thornton is a laser-focused scientist probing the molecular evolution of steroid hormones and their receptors. When Thornton enters the classroom of "Biology and Politics," however, his focus broadens to embrace his background in the liberal arts and environmental activism.
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.
BusinessWeek February 20, 2006	"Economists Suffer from Physics Envy" In search of a better economics theory, MIT's Andrew Lo says evolutionary dynamics could shed light on why investors behave as they do
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...
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...
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.
Outside September 2006 Bruce Barcott	The Evolution Revolution Our greatest science writers take on intelligent design in books that explore the theories of Charles Darwin and the 21st-century consequences of not believing
HHMI Bulletin Feb 2012 Nicole Kresge	Bones, Stones, and Genes Students and teachers joined five experts in what may have been the largest stone tool-making session in the history of human evolution.
Inc. March 2006 Donna Fenn	The Latest Boardroom Darwinism Charles Darwin's ideas about survival of the fittest and natural selection have become the management metaphors of the moment.
Geotimes September 2005	Geomedia Straight From the Source: Q&A with Author Sean B. Carroll... Book Reviews: The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey by Chris Beard... etc.
Geotimes October 2004	The Geoscience Vote Slippery Slope for Drilling in Alaska... Managing Federal Lands... The Evolving Debate Over Teaching Evolution... Funding and the Fate of NASA... Climate Tipping Point... etc.
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.
U.S. Banker September 2001 Roger Furman	The Court Got It Wrong! Banks often feel that they receive a bum rap from courts. Some just lie there and take it, while others lobby for legislation that would undo the damage. Some do it right, and others do it wrong...