You are hereA Creationism Row in Hong KongTitle: A Creationism Row in Hong Kong Issue: 6 In March 2009, the ultramodern city of Hong Kong became an unlikely battleground in the war on evolution. Year: 2009 Date: November-December Page(s): 4–6 This version might differ slightly from the print publication. Media Type: Review: The Paleobiological RevolutionYear: 2009 Title: The Paleobiological Revolution: Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology Issue: 6 Date: November-December For many years we have needed a collection of essays and historical reminiscences on just how the paleobiological revolution, or in another sense the emergence of macroevolution as a field, got started in the 1960s and 1970s. Looking back on the scientific literature of the time, and contrasting it to what came before, is much like looking at the cultural impact on a civilization when it is invaded (by Romans, Americans, or Visigoths — complete your own preferred metaphor). The world of paleontology changed completely because in addition to Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 584 pages. Page(s): 45–47 Media Type: This version might differ slightly from the print publication. The Effect of Viewing NOVA's Judgment DayTitle: The Effect of Viewing NOVA's Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial Docudrama on College Students' Perceptions of "Intelligent Design" and Evolution Issue: 6 On November 13, 2007, most Public Broadcasting Service television stations across the United States aired the NOVA docudrama, Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial. The two-hour program highlighted the controversy surrounding the decision of the Dover, Pennsylvania, school board to require high school biology teachers to read a statement to their classes that "intelligent design" is an alternative explanation for the theory of evolution. The teachers refused, and several parents subsequently filed a federal lawsuit against the school board for its failure to abide by the Year: 2009 Date: November-December Page(s): 29-33 This version might differ slightly from the print publication. Media Type: Credibility, Profitability, and IrrefutabilityTitle: Credibility, Profitability, and Irrefutability: Why Creationists are Building Museums Issue: 5 I was a junior in high school when I first read that Answers in Genesis was planning to build a $27-million–dollar creationist museum just minutes from my home. The creationism/evolution "debate" had long been an interest of mine, and when my like-minded father left a clipped newspaper article about the museum on my desk with the words "uh oh!" scrawled across the top, I was dismayed to read that my town would soon be embroiled in evangelical fervor. Year: 2009 Date: September–October Page(s): 17–20 This version might differ slightly from the print publication. Media Type: RNCSE 29 (4)
 Issue: 4 Year: 2009 Date: July–August Articles available online are listed below.
Click "Print Edition Contents" for list of articles in the print edition. Media Type: Review: The Cell's DesignYear: 2009 Title: The Cell's Design: How Chemistry Reveals the Creator's Artistry Issue: 4 After reading Fazale Rana's The Cell's Design, the sequel to Origins of Life (Rana and Ross 2004; reviewed in RNCSE 2007 May–Aug; 27 [3–4]: 45–8), I was reminded of John Conlee's 1979 lyrics, "These rose colored glasses, that I'm looking through / Show only the beauty, 'cause they hide all the truth." This country music classic sums up Rana's book, which starts with the foregone conclusion that the cell is designed, by explaining the principles (with reference to Dembski and Behe) of "intelligent design" (in chapter 1). Date: July–August Page(s): 36–37 Grand Rapids (MI): Baker Books, 2008. 332 pages. ReferencesLodish H, Berk A, Zipursky SL, Matsudaira P, Baltimore D, Darnell J. 2000. Molecular Cell Biology. 4th ed. San Francisco: WH Freeman. Miller KR. 2008. Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul. New York: Viking. Miller KR. 1999. Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution. San Francisco: Cliff Street. Rana F, Ross H. 2004. Origins of Life: Biblical and Evolution Models Face Off. Colorado Springs (CO): NavPress. Story CM. 2008. Same song, second verse. Christianity Today. Available on-line at http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/octoberweb-only/143-42.0.html. Last accessed March 27, 2009. Stryer L. 1988. Biochemistry. 3rd ed. San Francisco: WH Freeman. This version might differ slightly from the print publication. topics: Media Type: Unintelligent DesignTitle: Unintelligent Design: Interview with Mark Perakh Issue: 4 Mark Perakh was born in 1924 in Kiev, Ukraine. In 1941 he volunteered to fight the German invasion of the USSR. Later he studied at the Odessa Institute of Technology, earning a Diploma in Engineering Physics, and later an equivalent of a PhD degree from the Odessa Polytechnic Institute. In the 1950s he was arrested by the KGB on the charge of engaging in "anti-Soviet propaganda" and spent several years in a Siberian prison camp. Subsequently, he conducted research and taught physics in several universities in the USSR. Year: 2009 Date: July–August Page(s): 15–17 topics: This version might differ slightly from the print publication. Media Type: Review: Critique of Intelligent DesignYear: 2009 Issue: 4 Title: Critique of Intelligent Design: Materialism versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present The great merit of this book is its authors' recognition of historical contingency as key to the battle over "intelligent design". They argue that every natural and social science originated in a materialist (in the sense of naturalist) critique of some version of "intelligent design" and its accompanying teleological explanation. Proponents of "intelligent design" throughout the ages, in turn, have attacked materialism for its rejection of design and teleology, resulting in a 2500-year dialectic between scientific materialists and their theological and philosophical opponents. Date: July–August New York: Monthly Review Press, 2008. 240 pages. Page(s): 32–33 topics: Media Type: This version might differ slightly from the print publication. Whither "Intelligent Design" Creationism?Title: Whither "Intelligent Design" Creationism? Issue: 4 Since the 1960s, creationism has evolved, with the pressure of "judicial selection" giving rise to new species. The most prominent 1960s program — young-earth creationism or YEC — was based explicitly on the Book of Genesis. It aimed at teaching K–12 science students that God created the universe in six days by a series of fiats and that nearly all of geology could be explained in terms of the action of Noah's Flood. Year: 2009 Date: July–August Page(s): 18, 23–24 topics: This version might differ slightly from the print publication. Media Type: Review: The Devil in DoverYear: 2009 Issue: 4 Title: The Devil in Dover: An Insider's Story of Dogma v Darwin in Small-Town America The pages of RNCSE are replete with stories of municipalities flirting with anti-evolution policies. The stories that make their way into press or blogs are often limited to the essentials; detailed and researched accounts are rare. Even the court record from the recent Kitzmiller v Dover Area School Board trial provides only a limited version of what the reader instinctively knows is a bigger story. Date: July-August New York: The New Press, 2008. 256 pages. Page(s): 35-36 topics: Media Type: This version might differ slightly from the print publication. Pages
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