Evolution Debate News

I was browsing through Charles Krauthammer's columns today, and discovered this excellent piece on the Kitzmiller case , and the pseudo-scientific claptrap promoted by the Discovery Institute: Phony Theory, ...

The third issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach -- the new journal which aims to promote accurate understanding and comprehensive teaching of evolutionary theory for a wide audience -- is now available.

Sean Tevis Takes On Intelligent Designer with Some Intelligent Design of His Own... Sean Tevis is running for State Representative in Kansas, against an opponent he describes as a proponent of intelligent ...

Incautiously, Dawkins brings up the idea that aliens might have seeded life on earth; so-called directed panspermia.

July 15, 2008, 6:48 pm Let's Get Rid of Darwinism Charles Darwin was a giant. He did not merely write "On the Origin of Species" - ' one of the most important books ever written by anyone . . . Why is this a problem? Because it’s all grossly misleading. It suggests that Darwin was the beginning and the end, the alpha and omega, of evolutionary biology, and that the subject hasn’t changed much in the 149 years since the publication of the “Origin.” He wasn’t, and it has.

Here is an interesting article on extinction and also a bunch of great educational links for people wanted to get a better handle on Evolution and Charles Darwin. I would recommend this article and the links to anyone.

"Evolution has provided the Earth with an awe-inspiring inventory of species to research and conserve for future generations. In fact, as you will discover in this lesson, species are often surprisingly related. You will also investigate the theories of Charles Darwin and the variety of factors and forces that have shaped the nature of life."

Evidence of human migration by boat. A 32,000 year old skeleton found on Okinawa. Evidence of man in Australia and off the coast of California 12,000 years ago. While the Land Bridges almost certainly happened during the ice ages, but has man been traveling long distances by boat well before them? Interesting stuff.

Biologist Kenneth Miller thinks so. published online July 11, 2008 The proponents of Intelligent Design seek nothing less than a true scientific revolution, an uprising of the first order that would do a great ...

"At a contentious public meeting in Mount Vernon, Ohio, the district school board scheduled a hearing on whether to fire teacher John Freshwater.

Some people are fanatics. I thought those opposed to "teaching evolution" were fanatics when I was in high school in Tennessee where the Scopes Law was still on the books and there was periodic agitation to ...

Aside from his recent 180 on the recent legislative pay raise bill , Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's honeymoon period has been most severely damaged by his support of a bill allowing "scientific criticism" of ...

The discovery of a missing link in the evolution of bizarre flatfishes - each of which has both eyes on the same side of its head - could give intelligent design advocates a sinking feeling.

Intelligent design. Climate change. War. These are just a few topics where we engineers often fall short.

Celebrate the courage of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal in the fight for freedom. He has shown tremendous courage in signing the Louisiana Science Education Bill, an important blow for academic freedom.

Sometimes you just have to sit and stare dumbfounded at the appalling stupidity creationists will state with absolute conviction. Here's an example that will leave you awestruck, too: a site that declares there is a Darwin conspiracy, and cites three fatal flaws that they claim conclusively prove that evolution is wrong.

Evolution, in fact, provides the soundest and most stable basis for just about every progressive environmental position, and in the end for the most ethical. The common origin of all forms of life and the evolutionary relationships that have evolved into a stunning ecological complexity should compel us to place the preservation of the evolutionary process at the center of all our efforts. The preservation of these relationships and of biodiversity is arguably the highest moral consciousness and responsibility of which humans are capable. That religious leaders fail to recognize may explain why they continue to flail and flounder in addressing humanity's dilemma.

Just something funny to start the week! It does make you wonder what would happen if some of the most creative people from the past were alive today. I mean would we support a deaf composer or a home-schooled presidential candidate?

Lost amid all the recent discussions of intelligent design -- including Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's decision this past Friday to sign a bill that allows teachers in his state to "supplement" classes on ...

If you've been following the battle, you might be inclined to believe that Americans are faced with a choice between believing in God and scientific fact.

Bobby Jindal, Republican Governor from Louisiana, is rumored to be near or at the top of the McCain Vice President list.