Evolution Debate News

DREAMCATCHER REPERTORY THEATRE, the outstanding professional theatre in Residence at the Baird Center in South Orange, will present the hilarious and irreverent BLOOD: A COMEDY by New Jersey playwright David Lee White from March 9 through March 25.

You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that it loses itself early and does not find itself any more.

You might have thought it was all over after the 2005 decision by the US district court of Middle Pennsylvania , which ruled in the case of the Dover Area schools that teaching intelligent design is unconstitutional.

We now conclude this parsed essay wherein we considered the fascinating juxtaposition, literally to the extremes, of Creationist and Intelligent Design preoccupation with complexity and Atheist-Darwinian-Evolution preoccupation with simplicity when it comes to the issue of life's origins.

Intelligent Design: If the male nursery web spider were a human, he would be sternly denounced as a vulgar cad.

Why are scientists and teachers resistant to mentioning intelligent design and climate change denial in school science classes ? They are wonderful examples to demonstrate the difference between pseudo-science and real science.

University of Kansas associate professor of history Jeff Moran, author of the forthcoming "American Genesis: Antievolution Controversies from Scopes to Intelligent Design," will speak at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb.

Organizers will once again attempt a repeal of the Louisiana Science Education Act when the state legislature convenes this spring, reports Walter Pierce of The Independent in Lafayette: Repeal of the LSEA failed in a Senate committee last year despite the urging of more than 40 Nobel laureates in the sciences and a host of other scientific groups, ... (more)

It would mean that charter schools would get more money per student than public schools get.

In this parsed essay we will consider the fascinating juxtaposition, literally to the extremes, of Creationist and Intelligent Design preoccupation with complexity and Atheist-Darwinian-Evolution preoccupation with simplicity when it comes to the issue of life's origins.

The Kiel School Board chose the reasonable course last week in declining to change its method of teaching about the origins of human life.

You see, if you say something positive like the whole of life - all living things- is descended from a single common ancestor which lived about 4,000 million years ago and that we are all cousins, well that is an exceedingly important and true thing to say and that is what I want to say.

Imagine you're a middle-school science teacher, and you get to the section of the course where you're to talk about climate change.

The suggestion that creationism could be considered a viable alternative to evolution theory is often greeted with a reaction similar to the speaker having admitted to a predilection for pedophilia.

The big story concerning the release of the Fordham Institute's "State of the State Science Standards 2012" is not the overall grade that Texas received but that the controversial high school evolution standards were described as "exemplary." How can this be? These are the standards that the State Board of Education's religious conservatives ... (more)

The United States was created with a definite barrier between church and state. Nevertheless, the debate about the teaching of evolution as opposed to creationism in U.S. public schools has had a long history.

In the religious world you will sometimes read articles or hear sermons trying to understand the mindset of unbelievers and lamenting the lure of apostasy.

According to a new study published by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Texas Science Standards have received a grade of a C, or 6 out of 10 grading criteria based on content, rigor, clarity, and specificity.

Although the mention of intelligent design or creationism in public school science classrooms has been struck down by federal courts, the Kiel School District is considering how to present freshmen with a 'balanced' view of the various theories of the origin of man.

The Indiana Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would allow creationism to be taught in the classroom -- an idea that, if it becomes law, could likely end up in a courtroom.