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09.13.2006

A Case against "Intelligent Design"


"Proponents of intelligent design, with great gnashing of teeth and colorful language, have created a great deal of smoke," Steven B. Case explains [Link broken] in the Kansas City Star (September 12, 2006).

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09.13.2006

Dworkin on "intelligent design"


In the opening section of his recent essay "Three Questions for America" (published in the September 21, 2006, issue of The New York Review of Books), the eminent legal scholar Ronald Dworkin answers the question "Should alternatives to evolution be taught in schools?" with a decisive no.

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09.07.2006

Concern over renewed antievolutionism in Ohio persists


There is concern again about the resurgence of attempts to undermine the treatment of evolution in the state science standards in Ohio.

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09.07.2006

Pallen and Matzke in Nature Reviews Microbiology


On September 5, 2006, Nature Reviews Microbiology, one of the leading journals in its field, released "From The Origin of Species to the origin of bacterial flagella" in advance online publication form (PDF; subscription required). The article, by Mark J. Pallen of the University of Birmingham and Nicholas J.

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08.30.2006

FASEB adds its voice for evolution


The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, which is composed of twenty-two scientific organizations representing over 84,000 members, issued a public policy statement on the teaching of evolution on December 20, 2005 -- coincidentally, the same day in which teaching "intelligent design" was ruled to be unconstitutional in Kitzmiller v. Dover.

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