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Intelligent Design in Public School Science Curricula

David K. DeWolf, Stephen C. Meyer, Mark E. DeForrest
September 1, 1999
A Legal Guidebook presenting the U.S. law and case histories that support the teaching of intelligent design in public school science curriculum. Teachers, administrators, and school board attorneys will benefit from the support given to teachers to use important supplemental information in the … » Go

George Washington and the Religious Impulse

John G. West
January 1, 1999
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity,” wrote George Washington, “Religion and morality are indispensable supports.’1 These words are perhaps George Washington’s best known statement concerning religion, and since their publication in … » Go

Fruitful Interchange or Polite Chitchat?

William A. Dembski and Stephen C. Meyer
September 1, 1998

The demand that epistemic support be explicated as rational compulsion has consistently undermined the dialogue between theology and science. Rational compulsion entails too restrictive a form of epistemic support for most scientific theorizing, let alone interdisciplinary dialogue. This essay … » Go

Lerner Report Whitewashes Bad Science:

Multiple Authors
January 1, 1998
The Fordham Foundation’s highly touted report by Lawrence Lerner, “Good Science, Bad Science: Teaching Evolution in the States,” recommends increased emphasis in America’s public schools on biological evolution–which the report never adequately defines. (1) But the … » Go

Jettison the Arguments, or the Rule?

Paul Nelson
February 20, 1997
1. Introduction “No biologist today,” observes Douglas Futuyma, “would think of submitting a paper entitled ‘New evidence for evolution’; it simply has not been an issue for a century.” Whether they see it as an issue or not, however, biologists today still … » Go

Literature Survey January 1997

Paul Nelson
January 1, 1997
T.H. Huxley’s Ambivalence Sherrie L. Lyons, “Thomas Huxley: Fossils, Persistence, and the Argument from Design,” Journal of the History of Biology 26 (1993): pp. 545-569. Sherrie L. Lyons, “The Origins of T.H. Huxley’s Saltationism: History in Darwin’s … » Go

The Whole Question of Metaphysics

Paul Nelson
June 1, 1993
On February 11-16, 1993, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) met in Boston for its 159th National Meeting. While several sessions addressed topics of great interest, one in particular — “The New Anti-evolutionism” — focused on issues which have long been … » Go

Teaching the Controversy

Foundation for Thought and Ethics, David K. DeWolf and Stephen C. Meyer
June 7, 1989

Public schools face a dilemma when they address the subject of biological origins. From the Scopes “Monkey Trial” (1925) to the Supreme Court’s opinion in Edwards v. Aguillard (1987), the teaching of biological origins has put the public schools in the awkward role of resolving … » Go