2 Science Groups Say Kansas Can't Use Their Evolution Papers

2 Science Groups Say Kansas Can't Use Their Evolution Papers - New York Times: "Two leading science organizations have denied the Kansas board of education permission to use their copyrighted materials in the state's proposed new science standards because of the standards' critical approach to evolution."

The Brontosaurus - Monty Python's flying creationism

The Brontosaurus - Monty Python's flying creationism. By William Saletan: "'There is an elephant in the roomful of scientists who are trying to explain the development of life,' wrote Michael Behe, a professor of biochemistry, in his 1996 book Darwin's Black Box. The elephant was ubiquitous evidence of 'intelligent design' (ID) in nature. Darwinian evolutionists, Behe argued, were unable to explain life's origins and its emerging complexity because they couldn't see the elephant.

Behe has the same problem, but worse. "

Long-Ago Rivals Are Dual Impresarios of Darwin's Oeuvre - New York Times

Long-Ago Rivals Are Dual Impresarios of Darwin's Oeuvre - New York Times: "Two eminent biologists, James D. Watson and Edward O. Wilson, have been pitted by their respective publishers in an odd and inadvertent competition that recalls a bitter former rivalry. They are editors, for different publishers, of the same book."

The Intelligent Design Trial - Neo-creationists and their embarrassing ancestors. By Hanna Rosin

The Intelligent Design Trial - Neo-creationists and their embarrassing ancestors. By Hanna Rosin: "This must be how a religious conversion happens: You sit still in a windowless room for hours and hours, listening to the voice of a single higher authority. There is no one to contradict him, nothing else to do. Over and over, Michael Behe, the main expert witness, repeats the same mantra: Intelligent Design is science, not religion. By the end of the second morning of his testimony, I am beginning to see my way through to some of the central scientific claims of ID. The attorney asks a series of questions that elicit the same answer—'Creationism is a theological, religious concept; Intelligent Design points to observable physical empirical facts'—and I experience the repetition like a ritual prayer."

Intelligent design won’t vanish

Intelligent design won’t vanish - York Daily Record: "Supporters on each side of Dover’s federal court case over intelligent design considered the ramifications of the judge’s decision long before arguments began in court."

CBS News Poll: Majority Reject Evolution

CBS News | Poll: Majority Reject Evolution | October 23, 2005 14:30:06: "Most Americans do not accept the theory of evolution. Instead, 51 percent of Americans say God created humans in their present form, and another three in 10 say that while humans evolved, God guided the process. Just 15 percent say humans evolved, and that God was not involved. "

Witness Defends Broad Definition of Science - New York Times

Witness Defends Broad Definition of Science - New York Times: "A leading architect of the intelligent-design movement defended his ideas in a federal courtroom on Tuesday and acknowledged that under his definition of a scientific theory, astrology would fit as neatly as intelligent design."

Darwin and God

Darwin and God: "In the late nineteenth century, Charles Darwin's discoveries about evolution were described as a theory. That may have been accurate at the time, but since then many scientists have argued that they constitute fact. The difference is in part due to subsequent discoveries in the fields of biology and genetics. The discovery of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick and the recent elucidation of genomes (including human) have revealed the map and sequence by which life conveys its essential instructions.

This road map that dictates how life is to develop and evolve does not require God's intervention and guidance at every step. But it does not argue--nor has it ever--against the existence of a grand creator."

Witness: 'Design' Replaced 'Creation'

ABC News: Witness: 'Design' Replaced 'Creation': "HARRISBURG, Pa. Oct 5, 2005 — References to creationism in drafts of a student biology book were replaced with the term 'intelligent design' by the time it was published, a witness testified Wednesday in a landmark trial over a school board's decision to include the concept in its curriculum.

Drafts of the textbook, 'Of Pandas and People,' written in 1987 were revised after the Supreme Court ruled in June of that year that states could not require schools to balance evolution with creationism in the classroom, said Barbara Forrest, a philosophy professor at Southeastern Louisiana University."

Seeing Creation and Evolution in Grand Canyon

Seeing Creation and Evolution in Grand Canyon - New York Times: "GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. - Tom Vail, who has been leading rafting trips down the Colorado River here for 23 years, corralled his charges under a rocky outcrop at Carbon Creek and pointed out the remarkable 90-degree folds in the cliff overhead."

In Pennsylvania, It Was Religion vs. Science, Pastor vs. Ph.D., Evolution vs. the Half-Fish - New York Times

In Pennsylvania, It Was Religion vs. Science, Pastor vs. Ph.D., Evolution vs. the Half-Fish - New York Times: "HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 30 - When Casey Brown testified this week, she embodied the pain and division the intelligent design controversy has wrought in Dover. Mrs. Brown sat stiffly on the witness stand, her mouth as tight as her gray ponytail, recounting how she had run for school board on the same ticket as the board members now facing her from the defense table."