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- 1From:The American Biology Teacher (Vol. 72, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA survey of Florida teachers reveals many differences in comfort level with teaching evolution according to the state's science teaching standards, general attitudes and beliefs about evolution, and the extent to which...
- 2From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 159)In July 2005 the New York Times published my short essay "Finding Design in Nature." The reaction has been overwhelming, and not overwhelmingly positive. In the October issue of FIRST THINGS, Stephen Barr honored me...
- 3From:Skeptic (Altadena, CA) (Vol. 16, Issue 3)IN 2005, THE PARENTS OF SEVERAL STUDENTS ATTENDING Dover High School in Dover, Pennsylvania, sued the Dover Area School District over their decision to require high school biology teachers to read a statement alerting...
- 4From:The Scientist (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOn January 3, the new Dover, Pennsylvania school board--sans intelligent design advocates who waged a court battle over whether the school district curriculum should include the teaching of ID in science--is set to meet...
- 5From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 52, Issue 16)Byline: THOMAS BARTLETT It's rare for the announcement of a new college course to spark a news-media frenzy. But that's exactly what happened in November, when word spread that the University of Kansas would be...
- 6From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 52, Issue 49)Byline: ANNE K. WALTERS EVOLUTION WINS: The results of a Kansas primary have changed the balance of power on the State Board of Education, which moved last year to include intelligent design as a theory in school...
- 7From:BioScience (Vol. 55, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedAmerican adults and K-12 students frequently report nonrationalist views about creationism and evolution. Efforts to force educators to include material on "intelligent design" theory are causing widespread concern in...
- 8From:District Administration (Vol. 44, Issue 2)IN JANUARY THE NATIONAL Academy of Sciences (www.nasonline .org) published Science, Evolution and Creationism, a booklet which states that the evidence for evolution, with DNA and fossil records, is overwhelming....
- 9From:Genome Biology (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedKeywords: Intelligent Design, High Intelligence, Extended Order, Precursor System, Economic Conservative Author(s): Gregory A Petsko1 They're back. I suppose we should have always known they'd be back. As in those...
- 10From:Michigan Academician (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAn Overview of Papers and Documents of the Behaviorist, Theodore Christian Schnierla, Housed at the Archives of History of American Psychology. Gary M. Lange, Saginaw Valley State University, Department of Biology,...
- 11From:School Science and Mathematics (Vol. 109, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe ability of administrators and policymakers to discourage public school science teachers from presenting the objective evidence for evolution is continuing. We all know that the past barring of the theory of...
- 12From:Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round TablePeer-ReviewedAbstract The current debate in the United States regarding intelligent design (ID) has been viewed by many scientists as a curious sideshow. We cannot understand how anyone could be deceived into thinking that ID...
- 13From:The Scientist (Vol. 19, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedThe Smithsonian Institution screened the film The Privileged Planet late last month, but it is feeling less than privileged after the controversy surrounding the showing. Jay W. Richards, one of the authors of the book...
- 14From:Journal of College Science Teaching (Vol. 36, Issue 5) Peer-Revieweddodo from doudo silly, stupid 1. an extinct heavy flightless bird (Raphus cucullarus) related to the pigeons but larger than a turkey, formerly present on the island of Mauritius 2. one hopelessly behind the times...
- 15From:Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith (Vol. 59, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedEvolution and Intelligent Design (ID) are two opposing worldviews from which many contemporary intellectuals discuss the issues of origins of life. By evaluating the various Christian views of origins and the weaknesses...
- 16From:Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (Vol. 29, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDebates about teaching intelligent design in public school science classes are inflaming communities across the nation. These controversies present thorny Establishment Clause questions at a time when that doctrine is...
- 17From:Foundations of Science (Vol. 19, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCertain enterprises at the fringes of science, such as intelligent design creationism, claim to identify phenomena that go beyond not just our present physics but any possible physical explanation. Asking what it would...
- 18From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 18, Issue 3)"Life's Grand Design" by Kenneth R. Mirer, in Technology Review (Feb. - Mar. 1994), Bldg. W59, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. 02139. Creationists today tout "intelligent-design theory" as an alternative to evolution. They...
- 19From:B'Or Ha'Torah (Vol. 17) Peer-ReviewedThe disengagement of Torah scholars from secular amoral society has allowed for autonomy and "feel-good morality" to become the yardstick by which societal morality is evaluated. The absence of intense dialogue between...
- 20From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 53, Issue 39)Byline: RICHARD MONASTERSKY At first glance, it seems like a clear-cut case of discrimination. As an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State University, Guillermo Gonzalez has amassed a better...