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Darwinism Defeated?
The Johnson-Lamoureux Debate on Biological Origins
Darwinism, Design, and Public Education

Darwin’s Nemesis
Phillip Johnson and the Intelligent Design Movement
Intelligent Design, Freedom, and Education

The Right Questions
Truth, Meaning & Public Debate
The Wedge of Truth
Splitting the Foundations of Naturalism
The Religious Implications of Teaching Evolution
Robert E. Hemenway, chancellor of the University of Kansas, declared war on creationism in his essay ("The Evolution of a Controversy in Kansas Shows Why Scientists Must Defend the Search for Truth," Opinion, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 29). He characterized the Kansas Board of Education as wishing to destroy the idea that the public schools should be a source of truth or certainty, and quoted various hyperbolic comments that gave the impression that the board had discarded science in favor of the Book of Genesis. His worries are greatly exaggerated, but there is much to be said for the remedy he proposes.
