Darwin Year in the Netherlands: A Time to Reflect Coen Brummer
Though there is strong scientific and official
support for evolution in the Netherlands,
there are opponents, too. Both sides are using the
Darwin bicentennial to rally their supporters.
Updates
News from Alabama, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma,
South Carolina, and Texas.
NCSE NEWS
News from the Membership
What our members are doing to support evolution
and oppose pseudoscience wherever the need arises.
NCSE Encourages Federal Scientific Integrity
Joshua Rosenau
Words of advice to the new staff and advisors of
federal science policy and science-related programs
and projects.
NCSE Honors "Friends of Darwin" for 2006
Glenn Branch
We recognize outstanding efforts in promoting
evolution.
NCSE Thanks You
Words of appreciation for all those who have
supported NCSE financially in recent months.
FEATURES
Unintelligent Design: Interview with Mark Perakh
Glenn Branch
Mark Perakh discusses his book, his scientific career,
and his hopes and concerns about the future
of scientific literacy.
Whither "Intelligent Design" Creationism?
Lawrence S Lerner
With the constitutional door firmly slammed against
IDC in Dover, which of the few remaining pathways
will IDC proponents explore to try to claim
legitimacy?
"Intelligent Design": Wave of the Future or Ghost of the Past?
Norman Sleep
Once the dominant scientific framework,"intelligent
design"was replaced because it was unproductive.
Why go back there?
MEMBERS' PAGES
What is "Intelligent Design" Creationism?
An adaptation of a recent NCSE brochure that
explores the basics of IDC.
"Intelligent Design" On Trial
These books explore and critique "intelligent design"
creationism from a diversity of perspectives.
NCSE On the Road
Check the calendar here for NCSE speakers.
SPECIAL FEATURE
People & Places: William Paley, 1743–1805
Randy Moore
This icon of 18th- and 19th-century natural
philosophy was not the first to use a timepiece
as a metaphor for arguments from design.
BOOK REVIEWS
Lost Explorers? Review essay of Exploring Evolution: The Arguments For and Against Neo-Darwinism
by Stephen C Meyer, Scott Minnich, Jonathan Moneymaker and Paul A Nelson
Reviewed by John Timmer
Critique of Intelligent Design: Materialism versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present
by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York
Reviewed by Arthur McCalla
Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science
by John G West
Reviewed by Mark E Borrello
Intelligent Design: Science or Religion? Critical Perspectives
edited by Robert M Baird and Stuart E Rosenbaum
Reviewed by Taner Edis
The Devil in Dover: An Insider's Story of Dogma v Darwin in Small-Town America
by Lauri Lebo
Reviewed by Burt Humburg
The Cell's Design: How Chemistry Reveals the Creator's Artistry
by Fazale Rana
Reviewed by Frank Steiner
