The "Grill the ID Guys" Event at Biola Robert Camp
It was billed as a chance for ID advocates to confront their "toughest critics" — but in the end it was evasion and posturing.
"Critical Analysis" Defeated in Ohio
Glenn Branch
After the Kitzmiller v Dover decision, the state board of education reconsidered the lesson plan and standard that many anti-evolutionists proclaimed as a model for undermining evolution education.
Conservative Ohio Values Led to Change in Evolution Policy
Martha Wise
One member of the Ohio State Board of Education describes the reasoning behind the removal of the
controversial "critical analysis of evolution" lesson plan.
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ARTICLES
The Evolution of Biological Complexity
Finn Pond
"Intelligent design" proponents argue that there is no naturalistic explanation for biological complexity at the molecular level. This article shows that there is not one, but many, different explanations of ways that biological complexity could arise naturally.
A Common, Conserved Mechanism for all
Polynucleotide Polymerases
Michael Buratovich
One of the mainstays of the Discovery Institute's "Supplemental Bibliography" is the diversity of complex biochemical pathways and the possibility of multiple derivations. This article shows how the conservation of fundamental functions and structures among these important and apparently diverse pathways reinforces the conclusion of common descent.
BOOK REVIEWS
Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart
Reviewed by Timothy Sandefur
The First Humans: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors by Ann Gibbons
Reviewed by Pat Shipman
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Human Prehistory by Robert J Meier
Reviewed by Anne Gilbert
Who's Afraid of Charles Darwin? by Griet Vandermassen
Reviewed by Linda D Wolfe
Monkey Business: The True Story of the Scopes Trial by Marvin Olasky and John Perry
Reviewed by George Webb
Fatal Flaws: What Evolutionists Don't Want You to Know by Hank Hanegraaff
Reviewed by Michael Buratovich