The Case of Behe vs. Darwin
Lehrer transcript of Michael Behe and Lawrence Krauss
DEBATE OVER INTELLIGENT DESIGN President Bush said this week that schools should teach both evolution science and intelligent design in schools. Two professors review the debate over teaching evolution or intelligent design in public schools. TEACHER: The jaw, if it were here, would be almost directly under. JEFFREY BROWN: What should American students be taught about the origins and development Read More ›
Evolution or design debate heats up
Original Article Intelligent design, which holds that only an unspecified superior intellect can account for the complexity of life forms, is increasingly appearing in science forums and journals as an alternative to evolution theory. Evolution has been widely accepted in scientific circles ever since Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species revolutionised biological sciences 145 years ago. But the new theory’s support Read More ›
“Intelligent Design” Challenges Evolutionary Theory
By Mark Ryland (on behalf of Our Sunday Visitor) The debate over the origin of species is no longer a matter of biblical creationism versus Darwinian evolution. Today, while some Christians continue hold to a strictly literal, six-day creation as depicted in Genesis, others attempt to reconcile evolution and creation by suggesting that God set up the universe, including the Read More ›
Irreducible Complexity is an Obstacle to Darwinism Even if Parts of a System have other Functions
In a recent column in the Wall Street Journal (February 13, 2004, Science Journal, page B1, “Evolution Critics Come Under Fire for Flaws In ‘Intelligent Design’”) science writer Sharon Begley repeated some false claims about the concept of irreducible complexity (IC) that have been made by Darwinists, in particular by Kenneth Miller, a professor of biology at Brown University. After Read More ›
Still Spinning Just Fine
When I read Ken Miller’s contribution to the volume I’m editing with Michael Ruse (Debating Design: From Darwin to DNA, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2004), I expected I’d have till the actual publication date next year to respond to it. But since Miller’s contribution has now officially appeared on his website (it is titled The Flagellum Unspun: The Collapse of Read More ›
Damage Control at the AAAS
The AAAS Board Resolution on intelligent-design theory represents the scientific establishments latest effort to insulate evolutionary biology from critique and discussion. The challenge of intelligent design for evolutionary biology is real. This is not like someone who claims that ancient technologies could not have built the pyramids, so goblins must have done it. We can show how, with the technological Read More ›
Darwin in the Classroom
After months of debate, the Ohio State Board of Education unanimously adopted science standards on Dec. 10 that require Ohio students to know “how scientists continue to investigate and critically analyze aspects of evolutionary theory.” Ohio thus becomes the first state to mandate that students learn not only scientific evidence that supports Darwin’s theory but also scientific evidence critical of Read More ›
Intelligent Design Could Offer Fresh Ideas on Evolution
There is a growing public debate over how best to teach evolution in America’s schools. But contrary to Alan Leshner (” ‘Intelligent design’ theory threatens science classrooms,” Nov. 22), that debate is not focused on requiring students to learn the theory of intelligent design. Neither the Cobb County School Board in Georgia nor the Ohio State Board of Education mentioned Read More ›