Quick Access to Evolution Education News and Resources
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Annotated
list general resources:
- Modern
Evolutionary
Creationists on
the
Web
- Gordon
J.
Glover
has both text and video, as well as a blog and links to other blogs by
Christian evolutionary creationists; Glover is the author of Beyond the Firmament.
- The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life has several relevant
reports in their Science
and
Bioethics section.
- The Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences - USA has special supplements
entitled "In the Light of Evolution."
- The
Collapse
of
Intelligent
Design
-
Will
the
next Monkey Trial be in Ohio? by
Kenneth R. Miller (January 3, 2006 at Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, Ohio) is available as a videocast, as is God,
Darwin, and Design: Lessons from the Dover Monkey Trial
(April 4, 2008, at the University of Texas, Austin). Miller was a
scientific expert witness for the plaintiffs in Kitzmiller v. Dover,
the 2005 case establishing the unconstitutionality of teaching
"intelligent design" creationism in the public schools. He is Professor
of Biology at Brown University, the coauthor of the most widely used
high school biology textbook in the United States, and the author of
"Finding Darwin's God" and "Only a Theory: Evolution
and the Battle for America's Soul."
- The
Evolution Revolution by Joel Lang in the August 28,
2005 Hartford Courant is a rather comprehensive look
at theistic evolutionist Kenneth R. Miller and several of the above
cases.
- Is
It Science Yet? by Matthew J. Brauer,
Barbara Forrest, and Steven G. Gey in the Washington
University Law Quarterly (first quarter of 2005) is an
excellent summary of the issues.
- Teacher's Guide on Evolution
provided at the 2006 meeting of the AAAS, a
24-page pdf file.
- Templeton
Foundation Books of
Distinction is a campaign to increase awareness of
spirituality's role
in our daily
lives and in our understanding of the
universe, by promoting selected new books furthering the science and
religion dialogue.
- TIME
magazine (August 15, 2005) asked four prominent
thinkers: can you believe in God and evolution? Their answers
help frame the debate. Evangelical Christian Francis Collins
takes a
position shared by many of us in the NRCSE. Roman Catholic
Michael Behe
shares our view that evolution and theism are compatible, but unlike us
(and
the vast majority of scientists), Dr. Behe thinks intelligent design is
a
valid scientific conclusion. The other two
respondents, Steven Pinker (an atheist) and Albert Mohler (a
fundamentalist Christian), both find evolution and theism incompatible.
Annotated list of resources on specific
cases and topics:
- Cobb County Georgia Case: from the NCSE
and our own links
- Dover Pennsylvania Case: from the NCSE,
complete
transcripts
courtesy of the
Pennsylvania ACLU,
and our own links
- Hitler's Racist Fascism: Inspired
by Darwin's Theory of Evolution?
- Lutheranism and Evolution: from the NCSE
and our own links
- President Bush's "Endorsement" of Intelligent Design: from
the NCSE
and our own links
(Note: President Bush was asked again about the Bible
and evolution in December of 2008. If his views did not change
between 2005 and 2008, it appears that his remarks in August of 2005
simply endorsed the compatibility of biological evolution with faith in
the God of the Bible.)
- "Problems" with Evolution questions
by J.
Wells, author of Icons of
Evolution. Despite the misleading
"spin" of the questions' wording, teachers can turn these into
valuable teaching moments.
- Roman Catholicism and Evolution: from the NCSE
and our own links
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